New Granfalloon Album Out Now!!

Calendar Chapter II

Granfalloon

The album artwork is by Jeff Young.

Richard Lomax (AKA Granfalloon) first embarked on writing songs for a proposed year-long journal in 2014… a maddening yet rewarding journey which documented the fever dream of a chaotic year in the form of fifty-two pieces of music. Almost 10 years after its initial conception Lomax is about to release Calendar
The album artwork is by Jeff Young.

Richard Lomax (AKA Granfalloon) first embarked on writing songs for a proposed year-long journal in 2014… a maddening yet rewarding journey which documented the fever dream of a chaotic year in the form of fifty-two pieces of music. Almost 10 years after its initial conception Lomax is about to release Calendar - Chapter II as a collaboration with fellow songwriter Lobelia Lawson. Chapter II is the follow up to 2022’s Volume I album, taking those fifty-two ramblings, ideas, half baked thoughts and overcooked dreams and turning them into what will become a triptych of albums.

Lomax and Lobelia first met when Granfalloon was touring in 2019. Whilst finishing up work on Volume I of Calendar, Lomax reflected on some of the most enjoyable musical moments of the previous couple of years being those when he’d worked with Lobelia and as a result asked her if she’d be interested in writing Chapter II with him. To his delight she accepted and they set to work on the project with incredible alacrity. Five of the songs that appear on Calendar - Chapter II were written on that first day Lobelia and Lomax sat down to write together.

Whilst Volume I contained songs that exist mostly in the form they were written in 2014, the songs that make up Chapter II are predominantly new pieces of work… Some retain a snatch of melody or a chord progression, some a concept, some merely a title that they share with their 2014 counterpart. Calendar is becoming an organic, breathing body of work. An evolving songbook of the art of writing itself.

Where last year’s Volume I was mostly songs written at the initial conception of the project and meticulously recorded under studio conditions, the majority of Chapter II was recorded live with Lomax and Lobelia in the same room singing and playing together.
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