Yesternow Rec. 
Shoreline : From Eden, Home and in between -vinyl EP- (UK, 2006)****
demo + some additional demo tracks
This Brighton based band with an Italian singer have just released their first 10” EP on this brand new label called Yesternow Recordings. The tracks are song based, with so much warm sweetness it is like the reinvention of the Garden Of Eden. No overloaded feelings for the arrangements but just what the song adds comfort to, like pillows or feathers around colourful jewels. The acoustic guitar arrangements (or guitar with banjo/bouzouki..) are like delicate fairytales. On “Sounds like” the combination of stringed pickings sound more like harps. The double bass just adds warmth with so much care it is no more than with the sound of pillows. A few tracks with nursery-rhymes kind of lyrics are like adding another element of music with a flavour of innocence. “Shipwrecked” has whimsical humming (don’t be afraid of such a dramatic title, lovely children “it’s ok..” they sing “..my ship came in”), safe at a distance from the shoreline.
I assume that the extra tracks, also listed, with lyrics, on the website, complete the EP to a full release format, but they also bring you to a different shore, closer to Spain, with charming acidic folk hints towards flamenco (“Time Well Spent”), a song in Spanish !! (“Quixote”), and another track with guitar themes still hinting vaguely to flamenco, but already in a different, moody chamber like feeling of a song, with dual vocals and some flute improvisations. "Eye" is a strong emotive song about the group's curiosity outwards, just like following the shores. Talented !!
Shoreline is Tom Cowan : guitar, xylophone, bouzouki, vocals, percussion, lyrics ; Beatrice Sanjust di Teuladia : vocals, lyrics ; Lorin Halsall : double bass ; Dan Thompson : drums ; Nick Hemming : banjo, vocals on 4th track ; Jacob Richardson : lyrics (and vocals on 2 demo tracks), bouzouki (5), with Ben Topley : vocals (3,4) ; Andrew Briggs : piano (3,5) ; Stewart Cawson : bouzouki (on last demo track) ; Davide Fiorentini : flute (on 3rd demo track).
