MICK HARVEY & CHRISTOPHER RICHARD BARKER have released the opening track from their collaboration, The Fall and Rise of Edgar Bourchier and the Horrors of War. The album is available November 9 on vinyl, CD and digital formats. Listen to “Further Down The Line” here. Pre-order The Fall and Rise of Edgar Bourchier and the Horrors of War here. Adapted from the poem “The Haunted Yellow Hours,” “Further Down The Line” describes how a soldier attempts to comfort his dead colleagues, describing how they stare through his “weeping eyes, further down the line…” The song is the very first one that Mick Harvey constructed at the outset of his collaboration with the author Christopher Richard Barker. The album examines the work of a fictitious World War I poet, Edgar Bourchier, through his poetry as put to music in a concept album. The Fall and Rise of Edgar Bourchier and the Horrors of War coincides with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice on November 11 and Veterans Day in the United States. In addition to Mick Harvey and Christopher Richard Barker, the album features contributions from J.P. Shilo, a long-time collaborator of Harvey’s, as well as Jade Imagine, Simon Breed and Alain Johannes as guest vocalists. The album was recorded primarily in Melbourne, Australia with some additional vocal recordings in the UK and Los Angeles.
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