Slay Me In My Sleep

Grand Salvo

Slay Me In My Sleep
Format
Audio
Publisher
PRESERVATION
Published
20 July 2012
ISBN
9332727022517

Slay Me In My Sleep

Grand Salvo

Melbourne’s Grand Salvo, aka Paddy Mann is in his 10th year of making music. After gaining critical acclaim for five successful albums, Mann has established himself as a songwriter of unique heart and soul with a depth of lyricism matched by a warm but widescreen musical vision.

Mann’s quiet, gently played tunes are filled with non-cliched images of the Australian environment: his yarn-spun glimpses of dried-out riverbanks and sunlight reflecting off gum leaves only used as colours on an emotional palette painting the country as an unending stretch of heartbreaking habitat.

Set to expansive and joyous instrumentation, ‘Slay Me In My Sleep’ is a lavishly decorated and unabashed melodrama. Intricate percussion, harp, recorder and woodwind play to the quick, restless pulse of youth, while in sparer settings cello, gentle guitar and delicate piano reflect the melancholy of old age and longing.

Review

[[grandsalvo]]Melbourne musicianPaddy Mann has beenquietly going about hisbusiness for some yearsnow under the guise ofGrand Salvo.

His sixthalbum, Slay Me in My Sleep, has seen himshift to Berlin, and producer Nils Frahmhas fleshed out Mann’s stark sound withsome lovely arrangements and somesingularly beautiful piano playing.

Also onboard are local favourites Laura Jean andLuluc’s Zoe Randell for a song cycle ofstar-crossed lovers and another gorgeouslyunderstated addition to Mann’s impressivebody of work.

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