A Dream Turns Sour is a bricolage of English and German World War One poems, transformed into an angry yet lyrical set of songs. Amongst its highlights is the haunting 10 minute long reciting of Isaac Rosenberg's “Dead Man's Dump”, the brilliantly melancholic ballad based on Leslie Coulson's “Our Little Hour” and the bitter, heartbreaking finale “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Noel Hodgson. One century after the beginning of the First World War, this doom-laden tale of death by The Tiger Lillies, makes one wonder if our “war-free” Western World suffers any less from despair, anger, violence and nationalism.
A Dream Turns Sour might be number 35 in the long Tiger Lillies' release catalogue, but there is something absolutely unique about it. It is the first Tiger Lillies' album to talk about an actual fact: World War One.
Martyn Jacques had this to say about the new work:
'I decided to look at all the poets from the Great War who actually died. There were a lot in fact, most poets seemed to die in action. They expressed deep sorrow, anger, irony and bitterness in beautiful and heartfelt ways. It was very easy for me to set that to music. It was also very easy to shed tears for their suffering..theirs after all was a death sentence...'
The album was recorded in London's Rooster Studios and Space Eko East in 2014. Martyn Jacques is on vocals, accordion, piano and guitar, Adrian Stout on double-bass, musical saw, theremin and jaw harp, Mike Pickering on drums & percussion and guest musician Paul-Ronnie Angel on bouzouki, banjo and slide guitar.
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All Tiger Lillies' albums can be purchased on the band's official website www.tigerlillies.com
