Naughty little folk-pop maestro We Show Up On Radar is indeed a person and Zanzibar Whip Coral is indeed his album. A body of songs expelled through his cloud-like body like a turbulent but fruitful gale. This mass of organised air is to be released on Fika Recordings in March 2019.
Nottingham based multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Andy Wright - the man inside We Show up On Radar - has conjured up this 9 song popular melodrama using nothing but his own full sized Wurlitzer, complete with rotating platform and wearing his trademark sequinned suit.
Zanzibar Whip Corals is the 4.15 from Waverly Station. The train seats are woven from spun sugar and the train driver is a pelican with secrets in his bill. The gentle breeze spilling through the windows is Andy's voice with a melancholy love story sung for all the weird and wonderful creatures giggling in the distance. His songwriting is tender, almost fragile but his songs are anthemic, bubbling with gentle power. This journey is one of sheer magic and terror, like a lovely nightmare where you wake up smiling.
We Show Up On Radar’s songs are bewitching tales, scattered with references to vegetarian yeti’s, microscopic sea creatures and Greek Gods. It is music that is full of contradictions - childlike and sweet, but a bit wrong; terribly sad, but hopelessly uplifting.
Wright invented libraries and then toured them…. We Show Up On Radar have also recorded on various occasions for the BBC at the legendary Maida Vale studios and Abbey Road.
Lets all fly away on each other’s smiles.
Released March 22, 2019
credits
released March 18, 2019
All songs written and produced by Andy Wright
Additional recording by Joff Spittlehouse at The Old Library
Mastered by John Paul Braddock at Formation Audio
We Show Up On Radar are
Andy Tytherleigh - Bass
John Schofield - Drums
Andy Wright - Guitar, Keyboard, and Vocals
with
Ed Bannard - Vocals (Crumbs for Erin)
Aurelie Guinard - Vocals (Willow Tree, A Theogony, Zanzibar Whip Coral, Crumbs for Erin, The Lion's Skull)
Rob Milton - Vocals (Willow Tree)
Hugh Pascall - Trumpet (A Theogony, Crumbs for Erin)
Joff Spittlehouse - Guitar (Giant Dinosaur)
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