The Lives and Loves of the Serial Homesick, Volume 1

by Chris Connelly

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dub orange chris is back, which is great. after some experimental stuff here come 8 beautiful, deep songs, a very personal album after personal loss... he digs deep in memories and feelings about his hometown edinburgh and the leaving of it, maby regreting it sometimes & never really feeling at home again. love it. chris is a real master, poet, great songwriter and singer. thank you& good luck. Favorite track: Lost to Your Amour.

Jonathan Dennis Love it. Beautiful and melancholy. Favorite track: The Scars.

thenewspaper Achieves real weird sound, but also strums a polydactylic guitar! Veering into romantic rock, enlivened with the weird horns of Odeon.Shortie but goodie Favorite track: Lost to Your Amour.

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1.	So Long, Ariane 03:25	buy track
2.	Swords at St. Peter's 03:35	buy track
3.	Lost to Your Amour 05:50	buy track
4.	Odeon 04:03	buy track
5.	The Scars 05:48	buy track
6.	Fini Chagall 03:59 video	buy track
7.	Port of St. Catharine 05:54	buy track
8.	Midnight on the Swansway 05:31	buy track

about

This album serves as an impressionistic view of my life in Edinburgh before I moved to the States, leaving behind what I now realize is unfinished business, unresolved aspirations, like a plant viciously ripped out by the roots and thrown away.

Following the death of my mother in 2023, I spent time wandering around the streets on my own, trying to place the melancholy, trying to steal back the essence of joy I felt in my late teens/early 20s, and it inevitably led me to write, which is the way I have always been able to answer my own questions.

There are 8 songs on this album, each rich with strong feelings of then and now, memories that may or may not be accurate, locations, events, friends and lovers. I want the listener to walk with me quietly through endless days and nights, through the streets of Edinburgh in the early 1980s, over the tenement rooftops, up the hills with cans of Red Stripe and a well stoked hash pipe. Sitting in the Wee Red Bar, Bannermans, The Gilded Balloon, or the Royal Circus. Playing endless nights of music with my beloved FINI TRIBE, dancing at the Hoochie Coochie Club.

Some of these songs are half submerged in dreams, the locations distorted, the colors heightened, the times fluid. If you knew me back then, and we were pals, you are represented, and thanks for the memories.

I no longer live there – life and its commitments have me elsewhere – but I miss it badly and have never felt at home anywhere except Edinburgh, where my soul continues to walk the New Town streets and climb the hills.

All physical copies of this album come with a unique drawing by myself. They are not copies, they are originals in charcoal and pencil of the memories that surround and thrive at the heart of this album. I sat down over a period of time and just drew, it was visceral, emotional, and a lot of fun.

A special shout out to the FINI TRIBE, stars of the song and video for FINI CHAGALL.

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released April 1, 2024

All songs written by CHRIS CONNELLY

Voice, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, sax, percussion, synth, bass, and harmonica by CHRIS CONNELLY

Mastered by JAMES SCOTT at Populist Recordings
Recorded at THE ROCK NOIR, September / October 2023

Front cover drawing: “Dancing at the Hooch” by CHRIS CONNELLY (charcoal and pencil on paper, 2023)
Back cover photograph of the Dean Village by GILLIAN WHISKER (with thanks)
Layout by KIMBERLY BLESSING

Dedicated to the lovers on St. Stephen’s

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Video for FINI CHAGALL by KIMBERLY BLESSING. Includes footage of Fini Tribe taken by ANGUS CAMERON in the 1980s.

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Chris Connelly Chicago, Illinois

Chris Connelly is a Scottish-born, Chicago-based singer-songwriter. Known equally for his lush, melodic solo work as well as for his participation in the industrial music scene, Chris is also the author of four books.

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