For those unaware, the Captain makes his return nearly 22 months after a life changing road traffic accident where both he and his family were caught up in a police car chase resulting in being hit by the stolen vehicle.

During the challenges of such a stark rehabilitation, music was miraculously still being created, albeit in a very slow, labored and somewhat sedate ‘late night fashion’. Where strong painkillers/opioids became ‘married’ to those rare and fleeting moments of energetic impulses that screamed out to be expressed – hence a reflective, healing, contemplative album emerged.

The 9 track album Beautiful Ugly is the 5th Captain album which will be released on bespoke American label Melodic Revolution Records in September 2024. It was made with just 3 players: The Captain on Voice/Bouzouki/Guitar, Damian Clark on Keys/Synths and Wendy Ross on Violin.

Being a writer who follows such persistent whispers, prods and an almost other worldly invitation with a deep reverence to the process, The Captain felt compelled to realize this album into existence despite the circumstances that prevailed.

Indeed, a crowdfunding campaign has been amazingly successful with all monies paying for production, recording, design, engineering, mastering. promotion costs, etc.

The Captain is a troubadour, storyteller and free thinking renegade. His musical offerings are inspired by the great songwriters and philosophers of yesteryear. This is visceral music for the mind and body, full of dreamy verses, life affirming choruses and sheer audacity.

Furthermore, it is one where melodic invention meets alternative folk, progressive, world and ambient sounds. Enjoy!

1. obsidian whispers
2. dirty windows
3. success in failure
4. gothic balladeer
5. older
6. a joyful disturbance
7. vesper flights
8. neighbourhood
9. beautiful ugly

This quite brilliant new musical wonderment opens on the veritably glistening, gentle psych Prog of obsidian whispers and the shadowy dirty windows and then comes the almost ethereal, Celtic-imbibed success in failure and the translucently-hued gothic balladeer.

Along next is the free flowing swirls and twirls within older and the Eastern-tinged, wholly impassioned joyful disturbance and they are in turn followed by the atmospheric vesper flights, the album rounding out on the delicate gossamer of neighbourhood, closing on the jubilant hipsway of the title track beautiful ugly.

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