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To Leave A Mark

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by Les Étoiles

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Last year, David Fitzpatrick, aka Les Étoiles, returned to his home town of Bridgnorth, Shropshire. Picturesque and tranquil, caught in a strange timewarp (it possesses both a steam and cliff railway) and boasting what Charles I (who built a castle there) called 'the finest view in all my Kingdom', it’s the town where David grew up and where his family go back three or four generations. To Leave A Mark is a beautiful evocation of this place, its joy and tragedies, the town as a container of people, times, love and loss. It is about how a place, or better, the memories of a place, intertwine with one's self, even when, on returning, those memories are not quite true. It is a testament to a 'homesickness' for 'the memory of a home never seen', to when the sediment of memory matches reality, but also to the more common moments when it does not. Minimal and subtle, the songs here pay tribute to a flickering nostalgia while knowing that 'none of that can be redeemed'.

Simply recorded in the front room of his parent's home on guitar, keyboards and the drum machine on his grandfather's organ and then carefully produced and mixed by Tim Wright, these are songs of rare warmth and real fragility, rich with emotion and detail. It is a collection to be cherished: one of sadness, joy and uncommon intensity.

"I think what I had in mind though was something that I'm sure a lot of people growing up in rural towns or villages experience. First of all, a sense that such a small and seemingly enclosed piece of land has become almost your entire world, in terms of your day-to-day life, to the extent that you feel yourself defined by it. Then, having grown up and experienced quite a few bigger places, there may be, without being overly-Proustian about it, a sense of a kind of 'lost domain.' You now see a place that, although pretty much unchanged, seems entirely different to how you knew it; either because you've been elsewhere, or more likely, because your memories of your formative years are rather too imaginative and
rose-tinted."
David Fitzpatrick
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released 18 September 2009
All songs written and performed by David Fitzpartick. Produced by Tim Wright.
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