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London By Blakelight

from English Primitive II by David Lance Callahan

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‘London by Blakelight’ is, of course, me setting one of William Blake’s most concise and straightforward sets of allusions to music. Songs of Experience is one of the works I am cursed to keep in mind whatever I’m writing about, and ‘London’ is one of the most accessible and relatable poems in it.

Blake’s vision of a capital city beset by the corruption of the powerful and ever-tightening restrictions on freedom finds many echoes in what is happening now, 228 years after the poem was first published. I seems to me that his jaundiced vision falls in line with the themes I use on the rest of the album.

The song is also a form of redress. Several artists have bludgeoned the hymn ‘Jerusalem’ (adapted from Blake’s Prophetic Writings) to death, probably intending to satirise its jingoistic overtones. I hope to underline that the poet’s ideas still reverberate and have a bearing on our current state.

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from English Primitive II, released November 15, 2022

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