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Tales of a Marsh Frog

by Antraeus Voltage

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Rock 'n' Roll 'n' Be Me 05:06
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2.
Never Leave Without A Kiss 07:42
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Breeze 03:52
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Private Preacher 09:47
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Lonesome Wintry Blues 03:59
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Bumpkin Blues 07:50
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This album has a very organic feel to it. I was brought up in the Dengie Marshes which is quite dark, wild country in some ways, as is the Essex coast in general. So a few of these songs convey a flavour of the environment in which I was brought up. I had moved away for a year but then had to move back with my parents for a year before finally leaving the nest permanently. I must have been 18 by the time these songs were recorded which was around the same time as those that feature on Sentimental Fool. Most were written when I was 17 I think.

The first song on this album displays my independent nature (which was later responsible for selfishly neglecting my longterm relationship which eventually ended as a result as you will most likely gather from the tone of the next few albums!). It is a defining statement of a young man who lives for freedom and is not, therefore, tied to any place, family or community. Indeed, I couldn't wait to get away! Yet, I believe there was a healing quality about returning to the area of my childhood as a young adult for a year and feeling less vulnerable and outcast. At the end of Bumpkin Blues I holler 'Burnham Blues,' Burnham-on-Crouch being the town where I went to high school.

On the other hand, the song Private Preacher reveals my philosophical mind albeit in the form of a youthful reaction to activists (perhaps just older Indigos than myself) who are just as proud, aggressive, arrogant and self-righteous as the people in the Establishment whom they are fighting. In other words, I regarded them equally as a threat since they might plausibly represent the next oppressive regime if their revolutionary zeal landed them in a position of power. This song also clearly shows the strong influence that legendary songster Roy Harper had on me as a young man as does the tone of Bumpkin Blues to a lesser extent

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released January 6, 2015

All songs written and performed by Antraeus de Herschia. Recorded on an analogue 4-track by Jon Hare and Chris Yates at Jon's parents' house in South Woodham Ferrers, Essex, in 1984 or 1985

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Antraeus Voltage Todmorden, UK

Art-house electro acoustic songs (with a bit of fuzz and kazoo) spanning three decades. Stay tuned for more recordings.......

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