Neil Gaiman Announces First Album With FourPlay String Quartet 'Signs Of Life', Shares Two Tracks

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Neil Gaiman, the author of graphic novels including Stardust, Coraline, and The Sandman, has announced details of an album of original music.

'Signs Of Life' serves as the first collaborative album from Gaiman and Australia's FourPlay String Quartet. It's due out on April 28 via Instrumental Recordings, and features words, music, and backing vocals from the novelist.

As a preview, new songs Credo and Bloody Sunrise have been released, with the latter coming paired with its own video. Bloody Sunrise, meanwhile, includes lead vocals from Lara Goodridge. In a statement, the writer shared:

"I’m not entirely certain when I fell in love with a string quartet. I remember our first date, though. It was a day spent in a tiny room somewhere in the backstage maze of Sydney Opera House. We played the next night on the stage of the Sydney Opera House. It was remarkable. It was so much fun we did it again. We did a tour together, but when we reached Carnegie Hall, we decided we needed something better than me reading a poem as our encore, so we stole some time from soundcheck and rehearsed a song. And then we performed our song on the stage of the Carnegie Hall, and that felt a lot like something special. We started to build a repertoire, and when I was in Australia we would make music together. These are some of the things we’ve made together. It’s been a long fallow winter, the last two and a half years. Here are signs of life.”

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'Signs Of Life' tracklist:

1. Clock
2. Möbius Strip
3. Bloody Sunrise
4. The Wreckers
5. Song of the Song
6. Credo
7. Neverwhere
8. Poem First Read on January 26th 2011 at the Sydney Opera House
9. The Problem With Saints
10. In Transit
11. Signs of a Life
12. Oceanic

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