We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Clangers And Mash

by Gwyneth Herbert

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    16bit - 44.1kHz download

    Avaiable in: WAV, FLAC, ALAC (Apple Lossless), AAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and AIFF.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £6 GBP  or more

     

1.
I walk down the street with the sun on my shoulder, The air’s feeling fresher, the light is much golder. The world is ablaze and the birds are all singing for me I know that nothing is ending and nothing’s beginning, But nothing can stop my big grin or the spring in my step, It’s a good day to love, it’s a great day to be. Look at my life, look at my dreams, And no wonder that the sky it seems so blue, so blue. And I smile as I sit, Cos I’ve found my perfect fit, and it is you, Yeah it’s you. The pavement’s a river, the breeze tastes of honey, Wherever I go people look at me funny, It must be the paradise plastered all over my face. I guess I’m giddy with you and I don’t try to hide it. My hand with the ghost of another beside it, You knocked on the door, now the world is a wonderful place. Look at my life, look at my dreams, And no wonder that the sky it seems so blue, so blue. And I smile as I sit, Cos I’ve found my perfect fit, and it is you, Yeah it’s you. Look at my life, look at my dreams, And no wonder that the sky it seems so blue, so blue, And I smile as I sit, Cos I’ve found my perfect fit, and it is you, Yeah it’s you. Yeah, it’s you.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
I walk down the street with the sun on my shoulder, The air’s feeling fresher, the light is much golder. The world is ablaze and the birds are all singing for me I know that nothing is ending and nothing’s beginning, But nothing can stop my big grin or the spring in my step, It’s a good day to love, it’s a great day to be. Look at my life, look at my dreams, And no wonder that the sky it seems so blue, so blue. And I smile as I sit, Cos I’ve found my perfect fit, and it is you, Yeah it’s you. The pavement’s a river, the breeze tastes of honey, Wherever I go people look at me funny, It must be the paradise plastered all over my face. I guess I’m giddy with you and I don’t try to hide it. My hand with the ghost of another beside it, You knocked on the door, now the world is a wonderful place. Look at my life, look at my dreams, And no wonder that the sky it seems so blue, so blue. And I smile as I sit, Cos I’ve found my perfect fit, and it is you, Yeah it’s you. Look at my life, look at my dreams, And no wonder that the sky it seems so blue, so blue, And I smile as I sit, Cos I’ve found my perfect fit, and it is you, Yeah it’s you. Yeah, it’s you.
9.

about

Gwyneth Herbert is an artist who continues to redefine (and defy) our expectations. A singer-songwriter with one foot in the jazz world and one somewhere in the future, with pierrot-dotted eyes, polka-spotted shoes and swanny whistle in hand she may appear as whimsical as a Bonzo Dog, but writes beautiful melodies and has a poet's grasp of the world around her. Her song-writing has been compared to Lennon and McCartney, Ray Davies and Janis Ian, while musically her influences range from the junk yard clunk of Tom Waits to the Brechtian punk of the Dresden Dolls and from the minimalism of Steve Reich to the banging drum ‘n' bass of Hackney's pirate stations.
In just the last few months Herbert has won two prestigious theatrical awards, had them queuing around the block at the Rochester Jazz Festival in New York (where her show was in the top ten out of over two hundred), seen her cover of Neil Young's Only Love Can Break Your Heart used in a Hollywood ‘rom com', appeared at Wilton's Music Hall alongside Sian Phillips and Marc Almond, written a song-cycle about the sea to debut in Aldeburgh this autumn, sung a series of 18th Century murder ballads on Radio 4, and composed and performed a specially commissioned soundtrack to silent film The Patsy at the BFI. But while this breathtaking range of activities reveals Herbert to be very much a 21st century artist able to draw on a formidable range of talents, she remains at the very heart of it all a storyteller with a fine ear for a catchy hook, as her latest single, the charming Perfect Fit amply demonstrates.
Perfect Fit is also at the heart of Herbert's latest release, Clangers & Mash, a mini-album that draws on the many sides of her musical world from stripped back ukulele strums through recent classics to dark-hearted remixes that present her work in a brand new light. As Herbert herself puts it:
"I wanted to do something a bit different to mark the release of our new single, Perfect Fit, so I scrabbled around for a few backstage scrapings and asked a handful of my lovely and varied musician friends to present some Herbert tracks as they'd never been heard before. The result is Clangers and Mash: bleepy, tappy, pleasureful ear food to tickle your bellies. Tuck in"
Gwyneth Herbert

credits

released November 1, 2010

Produced by Gwyneth Herbert: and Robert Harder (1/8), Simon Drake (1), Seb Rochford (2), Girl After Shower (4), Voluntary Butler Scheme (5), Temper D (7).

Written and composed by Gwyneth Herbert
Mastered by Shawn Joseph @ Optimum Mastering

Gwyneth Herbert - vocals, kazoo, ukulele, stylophones
Dave Price - percussion, fiddle, xylophone
Sam Burgess - bass
Al Cherry - guitars
Steve Holness - piano
Mr. Solo - vocals

Originally recorded and Engineered by:
Robin Baynton @ Real World Studios
Robert Harder @ Acton Baby Studios
Gwyneth Herbert & The Voluntary Butler Scheme

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Gwyneth Herbert Saint Leonards, UK

Singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist & musical adventurer Gwyneth Herbert has released 6 albums and toured across the world, sharing stages with the likes of Boy George, Amy Winehouse and John Cooper Clarke.

She has also presented for BBC Radio 3 and 4; co-created three musicals and a feature-length art film; and had her arrangement of a Swahili folk-song performed by 100,000 children at once.
... more

contact / help

Contact Gwyneth Herbert

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Gwyneth Herbert, you may also like: