Fields of Ypres
Fields of Ypres is Graham Phillips, a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Wolverhampton, UK who decided to contact us in 2010 to see if we’d be interested in releasing his tunes. It didn’t take us long to decide that we would like that very much indeed.
We’ll let Graham take up the story from here and allow him to explain his chosen name and what brought him here…
“The evocative name is a metaphor for new life, every year the fields surrounding the town of Ypres flush red in a sea of poppies, a beautiful contrast to their painful history. After recovering from a long drawn out illness in 2009, I returned home to the West Midlands and set about writing a new set of songs, I felt like I’d been given a fresh start. My debut EP, “For Every Hour”, recorded at home and at friends houses and then mixed and mastered by Mike Odmark over at Grey Matters Studios, Nashville, TN, is the culmination of this journey. Drawing influence from songwriters such as Aaron Roche, Nathan Phillips, Bon Iver and Nick Drake amongst others I’ve sought to capture pieces of life in their fleeting, bittersweet and beautiful form.”
The debut EP from Fields of Ypres will be released on Commercially Inviable in late 2011. It will be released as a CD and a digital download. Here’s a preview of the EP.
Here’s a video of recent home recording. There are more over on the Fields of Ypres YouTube Channel
