We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

The Empty Quarter

from Red by Gravity Machine

supported by
/
  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The full "Red" album, on CD, in a standard CD jewel case, with a 8-page booklet.

    Photography by Harry Duns, Niall Parker, Pete Miles & Sarah Clarke.
    Artwork by Harry Duns & Niall Parker

    Includes unlimited streaming of Red via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days

      £10.99 GBP or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £1 GBP  or more

     

about

"Psychologists (and others) have talked of grief process and the various stages within it. Dry theorising is vaguely useful to identify (in part) whatever's going on at any given time. What the theories don't tell us is the stark richness of that long process- metaphor and imagery, allied with forceful, dark and vaguely hypnotic music, stands a far better chance of communicating that process, that emergence, than dry, academic commentary.

There are places in the world that are sufficiently bleak and hard, dangerous to traverse- one such is the Empty Quarter in the Arabian peninsula. I've never been there, but from what I've read it's not somewhere you'd choose to travel through unless you had no choice- as a metaphor, then, perfect.

This song is one of journeys through inhospitable places; bleak interior landscapes, with nothing but an obscure road and fierce determination to emerge to drive onwards- always following those distant drums, beating the time to the return".

lyrics

Winter's grip is tight
Like wire in a wound
Time in hand just trickles slowly
As steel gives way to sand

So much that's left undone
There's things I didn't get to say

Memories drift like snow
And all that's bright will rust
In still air there's a storm that's raging

So much that's left undone
Now I'm living in the empty quarter

There's things I didn't get to say

Desert king living deep in shadowed mountains
I press rich wine from red regrets
Ghosts of sand are always following
Pulling bones from my weakened hands

Distant drums are calling me
From across wide oceans
Through desert storms
I'm taking the road that leads me home

credits

from Red, released March 8, 2020
Music & Lyrics by Niall Parker

Vocals: Niall Parker
Guitars, Prophet 8: Niall Parker
Moog: Pete Miles
Bass: Chris Edkins
Drums: Bob Shoesmith

Produced, engineered, mixed & mastered by Pete Miles at Middle Farm Studios.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Gravity Machine England, UK

Emerging from the boulder-strewn depths of Dartmoor, Gravity Machine bring massive groove, soaring, atmospheric vision and a deeply satisfying sound.

contact / help

Contact Gravity Machine

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Gravity Machine, you may also like: