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1.
Fuadach 03:14
2.
I’m faithless and fallen, careless and loving, deeper and dark, like your eyes in the rain. Thinking mostly of this anytime story, a sense of departure, with out loss or gain. In a starless sky, one shutdown moon, here in this city we, fall in love too soon. One saving grace, like a faded kiss, like a locked arcade, I can't get out of this, just can't get out of this. I prayed down the angels, took a walk down to Central, washed up and gentle, like a song in the rain. I'm saddened without you, maybe that's not true, it's always your fortune, its always your gain. In a starless sky, one shutdown moon, here in this city, we fall in love too soon. One saving grace, like a faded kiss, like a locked arcade, I can't get out of this, I can't get out of this. In a starless sky, one shutdown moon, here in this city, we fall in love too soon. One saving grace, like a faded kiss, like a locked arcade, I can't get out of this, I can't get out of this. Like a day of ghosts, an uncertain touch, a complicity that maybe says too much.
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I have seen your face, in the darkness I leave this place. I wait for you for so long, I am calling you to my heart. I break, siren of my soul, and I call, I will lose it all, if I fall. I hear you voice, let me come to you my love. Hearts are broken and I am glass, I will break your fall, I will smash. If I fall, If I fall, If I fall, If I fall,       I break, siren of my soul and I call, I will lose it all, if I fall, if I fall. “When the day is done the flowers leave from the sun”.
4.
Apocalypse 04:53
Here comes the apocalypse, I kiss you on the lips, I don't care if the world falls apart, living life from the heart. I've got rainbows passion and pain, living life this, this way. You deserve better than this, a thousand crystals from the mist, mother of pearls, satin and silk, a golden chalice of virgin milk. Going to the mountains and to the tide, to bathe in the fountains cause I'm bleeding inside. Mmmm well, l tell you stories of many shades, I've danced in heaven and drowned in Hades, I'll cast my dark demands aside, there's no place for them to hide. The gates of heaven were open to us love, I had you clear then. I lost you to the crowd.
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The eternal swell, listen to the sound of the mighty swell; the ocean’s thunder is as I heard it when I was a child, changelessly, pitilessly, breaking against the sands of the shore: the eternal swell, listen to the sound of the mighty swell.                                                  In the forest of the west I would not wish to stay forever: my thoughts and my love were always for the little hollow of the bay; but those who were generous  of deed, of fellowship and of joy,                                     are scattered without shelter, as a flock of birds flies before an enemy.                        But I shall go away, never to return to you: my age and my physical appearance presage the shortness of my days. when it’s time for me to be laid out in the cold slumber of death, make up my bed where I can hear the surge of the sea.                     
6.
Solitude 03:07
Hey you, do you remember me, do you remember the way we used to be. Your mystery has grown thin and I can’t stand the shape we’re in. Fallen lovers yeah,  fallen lovers, fallen lovers yeah, lovers fall. Nowhere to run and nowhere to hide, fallen lovers yeah, lovers fall. I tried and I tried, some nights I even cried. Forgive me forgive me, if I ever lied, but the last time, I felt loved died. Fallen lovers yeah,  fallen lovers, fallen lovers yeah, lovers fall. Nowhere to run and nowhere to hide, fallen lovers yeah, lovers fall. Lovers fall, for the last time, We lost it all, we lost it all.
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Within these walls love has slept, silent through the morning crept. Laid down by your beating breast, with eyes full closed your face caressed. Got that loving feeling baby only want to be loved by you. Within these walls a love was known, with patient hands the seeds were sown. We tilled the soil and prayed for rain, to swell the seed and burst the grain. Got that loving feeling baby only want to be loved by you. Within these walls a flower grew, a thousand petals in full bloom. Through galleries and perfumed halls, we stroll beneath your wonder falls. Got that loving feeling baby only want to be loved by you. Within these walls a flower grows carnation lily lily rose. Beneath the boughs of a linden tree I hear you sweetly call to me. Got that loving feeling baby only want to be loved by you. Got that loving feeling baby only want to be loved by you. Got that loving feeling baby. Got that loving feeling baby.
8.
Somewhere on the Mill Road, she circles in the rain. Making for the hayloft, towards the Silvertrees. Sure as East meets West, she’s in her summer dress, young musicians on their knees. She’ll climb the eastern stair and touch her golden hair, like a siren she’ll rule these seas. The song she sang was ageless, strange her beauty lies. Parade of joy confound us, beware how sorrow flies. She wanted everything, she wanted everything, she walked among us like a dream. The darkened sky the summer breeze, the widest open seas, the fallen leaves that cling to me. Whatever she was calling, from a distant shore. We knew that night was falling, on the forest floor, she had the honey at the core. On misty nights like this, I know that love exits, it circles round me in the breeze. Sure as East meets West, she’s in her summer dress, slipping through the silver trees. The darkened sky her laughing eyes, a tender kiss the lost goodbyes, the fallen years that cling to me. Let the oceans roar and through her sweet allure, love came upon us like a dream. On misty nights like this, I know that love exits, it circles round me in the breeze. As sure as East meets West, she’s in her summer dress, slipping through the silver trees. Sure as east meets west, she’s in her summer dress, slipping through the silver trees.
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Mo mhallachd aig na caoraich mhòr! Càit a bheil clann nan daoine còir  dhealaich rium nuair bha mi òg mus robh Dùthaich 'IcAoidh na fàsach? Tha trì fichead bliadhna 's a trì o dh'fhàg mi Dùthaich 'IcAoidh Càit bheil gillean òg’ mo chrìdh s na nìonagan cho bòidheach? Shellar, tha thu nist nad uaigh -gaoir nam bantrach na do chluais Am milleadh rinn thu air an t-sluaghron uiridh 'n d' fhuair thu d' leòr dheth? Chiad Dhiùc Chataibh, led chuid foil 's led chuid càirdeis do na Goill gum b' ann an Iutharn' bha do thoill - gum b' fheàrr Iùdas làmh rium. Mo mhallachd aig na caoraich mhòr! Càit a bheil clann nan daoine còir’  dhealaich rium nuair bha mi òg Mus robh Dùthaich 'c Aoidh na fàsach?
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Jura 05:52

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”I love it. Listening to Starless is like ‘sitting on a cliff, feet dangling over, shivering from the wind chill with the sea beneath you’. I feel the authentic Scottish musical sensibilities and charm that goes with it. Hearing the beautifully sung, arranged and played songs, makes me feel... great.“ Gary Katz (Steely Dan producer, ’72 -’80)

Welcome to the debut album of Starless - the lushly orchestrated brainchild of Paul McGeechan, keyboard player of Love & Money from Glasgow. It’s an epic and unique album - widescreen in scope and ambition featuring such illustrious collaborators as Paul Buchanan (The Blue Nile), Karen Matheson (Capercaillie), Julie Fowlis and Chris Thomson (The Bathers). McGeechan - who wrote, arranged and masterminded the project - recorded the album with the stunning Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. The result is a an emotional soundscape with references ranging from Ennio Morricone to The Cocteau Twins and David Sylvian.

Fuadach provides the opening titles to this very special cinematic musical journey. It is followed by the late-night beauty of title track Starless - sung by Paul Buchanan of The Blue Nile (Buchanan’s first vocal in many years). ”In a starless sky, one shutdown moon, here in this city, we fall in love too soon“.

Whispered Reason No. 2 and Solitude - both sung by Marie Claire Lee - recall the other-worldly beauty of Liz Fraser of The Cocteau Twins. Another great collaborator on Starless is Karen Matheson from Capercaillie. Her beautiful voice is featured on the celestial The Surge Of The Sea - sung in Gaelic. Scottish folk singer Julie Fowlis provides vocals on the second Gaelic language song on the album - the ethereal Duthaich Mhicaoidh.

Chris Thomson from The Bathers (who released three albums on Marina) sings the gorgeous Misty Nights. ”Sure as East meets West, she’s in her summer dress, young musicians on their knees“. McGeechan and Thomson were both members of legendary post-Postcard band Friends Again in the early 80s.

Within These Walls - sung by Andrew White - recalls the melancholy art-pop of early 80s Peter Gabriel. The atmospheric Yellow Midnight is sung by Gwen Stewart who recorded two albums with Sugartown on Marina.

Turn the lights down low - turn up the volume - and get on a trip with this very special and, yes, quite spectacular album. It’s a beauty.

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released June 27, 2016

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Starless / Paul McGeechan Scotland, UK

Welcome to Starless - the lushly orchestrated brainchild of Paul McGeechan,
keyboard player of Love & Money from Glasgow. Epic and unique - widescreen
in scope and ambition featuring illustrious collaborators with Paul Buchanan (The Blue Nile),
Karen Matheson (Capercaillie), Julie Fowlis and Chris Thomson (The Bathers) to name a few
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