Orphans of the Storm – four track EP: “I fell in love as soon as I heard it – different, gorgeous – honestly beautiful” BBC Introducing, “a balm for the soul” Angeline Morrison
LISTEN here: https://jonathanday.bandcamp.com/album/orphans-of-the-storm Four songs of love and loss, a distillation of years spent wandering and playing. Presenting stories from a frozen midsummer’s night on a Danish island, the deep countryside of Belarus, streets in Bali and the wide black land of Minnesota, these compositions take their heart from time, silence and the mad, mundane and...
A Spirit Library – available here
Click this link to buy /https://jonathanday.bandcamp.com/album/a-spirit-library PRESS RELEASE: a Spirit Library Following Carved in Bone and Atlantic Drifter, Shropshire borderlands based singer songwriter Jonathan Day releases his third studio album a Spirit Library, at the beginning of April. Recorded at SFG studio in the Berwyn Mountains and at the Magic Garden, the new album’s working title was...
a Spirit Library chosen for Folk Radio’s Albums of the Year
Delighted that a Spirit Library is a Folk Radio Album of the Year for 2019. Thanks so much to all at FRUK – for me the most innovative and considered voice in the music I love. Thank you, with all my heart, to everyone who has been to a show, shared a kind word, listened to a...
a Spirit Library on Film – song videos
A selection of visual representations of songs from a Spirit Library
In Dreams a Crossing of Great Seas – An animation made with Shiyi Li
In Dreams a Crossing of Great Seas. My thanks to amazing animator Shiyi Li for giving light and colour to the dreams, intuitions and memories of which this song is spun.
Spirit Library launch tour: Jamaica, Hong Kong, Austria, Italy, Bangkok, Oswestry
Live footage from the launch tour
Making a Spirit Library with silicon and oxide
Recording between a Garden and the sea… The new album kind of started with an impromptu. Fingal’s cave in Scotland had the most stunning acoustic, sound sparking off the mostly hexagonal basalt lava columns, spinning in the most entrancing way. Deep in the cave in the almost black, on a narrow ledge above pulsing...
NORWAY – looking for light and wilderness between recordings
There’s something about light. Light wrapped around the day, driving away all but a relic of night. Sun from the north, across the top of the world, preternatural. Full bright on wind blown, mare’s tail waterfalls and a wonderfully strange, quiet, midnight gloaming. Light bursting inside a huge chunk of glacier, city block sized, mint...