Cloud Atlas – Vanishing Point
As Ernie Banks said, “Let’s play two!”
Today we feature two songs, “Sea to Shining Sea” and “The Ties That Bind Us” from the album Vanishing Point by Cloud Atlas. These showed up in Bandcamp’s Folk section, and immediately jumped out from the acoustic-guitar-and-banjo-with-nasally-vocal fodder that typically fills that trough. The songs have the loose, rollicking bluesiness of Blonde on Blonde-era Dylan, but vocally and lyrically they recall Elliott Murphy. Not that we need to pigeonhole anything.
We here at Reverb Raccoon applaud the artist’s willingness to stretch things out. Eight of Vanishing Point‘s ten tracks clock in at over four minutes. The shortest track is 3:16, while “The Ties That Bind Us” is fully seven minutes.
Cloud Atlas was formerly known as Castles in the Sky. We applaud the name change, as there is approximately infinity bands out there calling themselves Castles in the Sky.
I’ve been listening to these songs, and the other songs from Vanishing Point, all day. You can stream or download them from Castles in the Sky’s Bandcamp page. These and other songs by Tim Curran are also available on Tim’s Soundcloud page.
Charles Norman is a writer and historian. Email: reverb.raccoon@gmail.com. Or follow on Instagram and Facebook.
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