Patrick Wolf
Chanteur

Britannique

The third archetype of Jupiter is a portrait of 'Julian" named after the male alter-ego of the writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West, often she would transform to become Julian to check into hotels with her lover Violet, or proudly walk down the streets unassumingly together in the early 20th Century, Vita and her Julian are an integral part of the Crying the Neck album, not only is she a Kentish heroine for me and the album being my Kentish album, but at the end of "Better or Worse" you'll hear a reading I found of her reciting "The Land", a book which explores the wheels of the year as I have set out to do with my four album project ahead, Crying the Neck being the first of the series.

I was thinking alot about one of my favourite films "Canterbury Tale" by Powell and Pressburger, while directing and editing this film, the kentish landscape that still holds on to ring and hum for me as it does in the film in vast black and white like in that beautiful film, a journey of miracles.

for 'Julian" i have used "The Medway Mix" of Jupiter that is currently only available on CD and Vinyl at the stations of the sun tour on a companion EP I made of the album called "Poor Old Horse" which i'm sure as the months go by this year it will find it's way to digital streaming, for now, this is where you can find it, with julian in the long grass.

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Jupiter / The Medway Mix
written, produced, mixed and arranged by Patrick Wolf
co-produced mixed and engineered by Brendan Cox
string arrangements by Patrick Wolf
Patrick Wolf : Vocals, Electric Tenor Guitar, Viola, Synth, Audio, Beat and
Bass Programming, Grand Piano
Brendan Cox : Acoustic Guitar
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock : “uninterrupted between us and the heavens”

the sceond of three Crying The Neck “archetype” music videos for "Jupiter" is released here today alongside the single on all streaming platforms the next two videos will be premiered here in the run up to the release of Crying the Neck

This Jupiter archetype is named after the writer and artist Ithell Colquhoun, who attached her occult, sublime, daring and grotesque tenderness to the year alopecia shed my black stained mourning hair, first taking my eyebrows in shock of withdrawal from alcohol. Ithell making the black rocks bleed, realizing mid ritual she has set into motion a very wrong and persistent magic

lyrics

no straw to gold
round parts like these here
a burnt out bus sticks up
sundial in the wier
losing a game
we were not playing
gone to seed
twisting in the wind

autumn to autumn
they slowly
dissapear
abandoning a boat
that got too hard to steer
losing a game they were
not playing
gone to seed
twisting in the wind

but on the darkest night
i see most clear
the way to awnywhere
but here
i’m blinded
to the big picture
just before morning
jupiter

the circus used to stop by
in the banner years
nothing sacred
left to sober
the sightseer here
i’m losing a game
I was not playing
gone to seed
twisting in the widn

but on the darkest night
i see most clear
the way to anywhere
but here
when i’m blinded
to the big picture
then just before morning
jupiter

surely it can't
get any worse?
90 days on this earth
the healing begins
with admitting
i hear, so
just before morning

clear

written, produced and arranged by Patrick Wolf
co-produced mixed and engineered by Brendan Cox
string arrangements by Patrick Wolf
Patrick Wolf : Vocals, Electric Tenor Guitar, Viola, Synth, Audio, Beat and
Bass Programming, Grand Piano
Brendan Cox : Acoustic Guitar
Seb Rochford : Drums and Percussion
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock : “uninterrupted between us and the heavens”

the first of three Crying The Neck “archetype” music videos for "Jupiter" is released here today alongside the single on all streaming platforms the second, third and fourth video of which will be released in the run up to crying the neck

This first video is named “Peter” after the artist Peter Berlin who I kept a self-portrait of in my Crying the Neck notebook taken in the 1970s out in a late summer field, it possessed an exact mid-summer melancholy and forlorn nature-erotic or nature-sensuality that I had immediately recognised in the main thread I was using in my album as I finished writing it. This first video is my self portrait of the present tense at the beginning of my fifth summer sober and clean, out in the marshlands near my house I spend my summers reading and writing in.

Crying The Neck will be released on June 13th
available to pre-order and pre-save now

lyrics

no straw to gold
round parts like these here
a burnt out bus sticks up
sundial in the wier
losing a game
we were not playing
gone to seed
twisting in the wind

autumn to autumn
they slowly
dissapear
abandoning a boat
that got too hard to steer
losing a game they were
not playing
gone to seed
twisting in the wind

but on the darkest night
i see most clear
the way to awnywhere
but here
i’m blinded
to the big picture
just before morning
jupiter

the circus used to stop by
in the banner years
nothing sacred
left to sober
the sightseer here
i’m losing a game
I was not playing
gone to seed
twisting in the widn

but on the darkest night
i see most clear
the way to anywhere
but here
when i’m blinded
to the big picture
then just before morning
jupiter

surely it can't
get any worse?
90 days on this earth
the healing begins
with admitting
i hear, so
just before morning

clear


written, produced and arranged by Patrick Wolf
co-produced mixed and engineered by Brendan Cox
string arrangements by Patrick Wolf
Patrick Wolf : Vocals, Electric Tenor Guitar, Viola, Synth, Audio, Beat and
Bass Programming, Grand Piano
Brendan Cox : Acoustic Guitar
Seb Rochford : Drums and Percussion
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock : “uninterrupted between us and the heavens”

My chance to begin telling the story of the other side
of Crying the Neck to the story of the singles..
to take you to the world between
land and sea I call home
Hymn of the Haar
is the penultimate song of the album
.
Written Produced and Arranged by Patrick Wolf
String Arrangements by Patrick Wolf
Co-Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Brendan Cox
Patrick Wolf : Vocals, Baritone Ukulele, Acoustic Guitar,
Audio, Bass, Sample and Drum Programming
Jo Apps : Vocals of the Haar
Seb Rochford : Percussion
String Octet = The Engines Orchestra
Led by Victoria Sutherland
Victoria Sutheland : Violin I + II
Su Sturman : Violin III + IV
George White : Viola I + II
Zosia Jagodzinska : Cello I + II
.
Crying the Neck is available
to Pre-Order at patrickwolf.com
and pre-save on all digital platforms
released on June 13th
.
Video Made / Directed by Patrick Wolf