I began releasing the new Michael Lloyd Band free online album this week. The album is called An Ocean Overhead, and you can download tracks from this page or subscribe to the podcast to get tracks automatically as they're posted. Or be old-school and join the email list.
I'm releasing songs individually, not the whole album at once. You can see what's coming up on the downloads page.
About The Album
The album title comes from a lyric in "Cascades," one of the songs. I searched to see if there was anything out there already called An Ocean Overhead, and found the following passage from an old book...
"As if to heighten the horror of a scene already too appalling, a peal of thunder rolled along, which made itself audible in despite of the tempest; and the rain, as if from an ocean overhead, poured down in solid masses. By this time, the wives and families of the men thus hastening to death, were assembled near the pier; but the waves, which were now dashing in tremendous force over it, prevented even the attempt to pass along, and such was the fearful uncertainty which hung around the vessel, that not one of those most interested dared to utter even an exclamation, but stood in silent horror to await the catastrophe. This was fast hastening to its completion; the silence of the spectators was at once broken, by the cries of, "She is lost, she is lost!" as the vessel, lashed on by the tempest, passed to the outer side of the breakwater, and in one instant, struck with awful violence between two black rugged rocks, while, in the next, a furious sea washing over her, carried away the masts."-- from "Passages in the Life of Francis Flagstaffe, Esq., Late Major in His Majesty's Service" (Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1828)
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