LULLABIES FOR CYNICS CD
Just Released! The eagerly awaited new album from the Small Change Diaries.
Just £9.99 including P&P in the UK.
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For multiple copies email nickcodyscd@gmail.com
Critical Acclaim
Without exception the songs of “Lullabies For Cynics” are stunningly good. This melting pot of talent has produced a truly first rate album you simply must hear.
Uke Planet
The Small Change Diaries create poetic, acoustic songs with thought provoking lyrics and a heartfelt delivery.
Vents Magazine
‘Lullabies for Cynics’ is pretty much exactly what it says on the tin. The Small Change Diaries create a peppy fantasy world with folk, blues, gospel-style arrangements all while conveying the candied truth through their politically challenging lyrics. At a first listen it’s just camp fire sway ready lollipops and rainbows tunes but at the root there is depth there.
Indie Buddie
Full Track List
Hold on 3.19 (Nick Cody/ Jessica Bowie/ Adrian Knowles/ Rich Ferdinando)
Nick Cody – Vocals and ukulele (cocobolo super soprano ukulele)
Jessica Bowie – Vocals and Ukulele (African Blackwood Rob Collings tenor ukulele)
Adrian Knowles – Double bass and bowed double bass
Rich Ferdinando – Percussion
We don’t do that huggie crying thing 3.19 (Nick Cody/ Jessica Bowie/ Adrian Knowles/ Rich Ferdinando)
Nick Cody – Vocals and Shimo comet 3 ukulele
Jessica Bowie – Vocals and Ukulele (Rob Collings tenor ukulele)
Adrian Knowles – Double bass and bowed double bass
Rich Ferdinando – Percussion
I Know What You’re Saying 3.44 (Nick Cody/ Jessica Bowie)
Nick Cody – Vocals and Shimo comet 3 ukulele
Jessica Bowie – Vocals and Ukulele
Adrian Knowles – Double bass and bowed double bass
Rich Ferdinando – Percussion
Manitoba Hall – vocals and ukulele
Not One of Us 2017 3.53 (Nick Cody)
Nick Cody – Vocals and ukulele (Shimo Comet 3 ukulele)
Jessica Bowie – Vocals and Ukulele (Rob Collings tenor ukulele)
Adrian Knowles – Double bass and bowed double bass
Rich Ferdinando – Percussion
Laurent Zeller – violin
Kicking Down Doors 3.22 (Nick Cody/ Jessica Bowie)
Nick Cody – Vocals and ukulele (Shimo Comet 3 ukulele)
Jessica Bowie – Vocals and Ukulele (Rob Collings tenor ukulele)
Adrian Knowles – Double bass and bowed double bass
Rich Ferdinando – Percussion
Phil Doleman – lap steel
There’s no trees 3.20 (Nick Cody/ Jessica Bowie)
Nick Cody – Vocals and Shimo comet 3 ukulele
Jessica Bowie – Vocals and Ukulele
Adrian Knowles – Double bass and bowed double bass
Rich Ferdinando – Percussion
Draw You Out 2.40 (Nick Cody/Jessica Bowie)
Nick Cody – Vocals and ukulele (Rob Collins 5 string baritone ukulele)
Jessica Bowie – Vocals and Ukulele (Rob Collings tenor ukulele)
Adrian Knowles – Kala U Bass
Rich Ferdinando – Percussion
Laurent Zeller – violin
Voodoo Doll 3.49 (Nick Cody/Jessica Bowie)
Nick Cody – Vocals and ukulele (Shimo Comet 3 ukulele)
Jessica Bowie – Vocals and Ukulele (Rob Collings tenor ukulele)
Adrian Knowles – Double bass and bowed double bass
Rich Ferdinando – Percussion
Phil Doleman – Lap steel
Birdman 2017 4.25 (Nick Cody)
Nick Cody – Vocals and ukulele (Shimo Comet 3 ukulele)
Jessica Bowie – Vocals and Ukulele
Adrian Knowles – Double bass and bowed double bass
Rich Ferdinando – Percussion
Laurent Zeller – Violin
Slow News Day 3.27 (Nick Cody/ Jessica Bowie/ Adrian Knowles/ Rich Ferdinando)
Nick Cody – Vocals and ukulele (Shimo Comet 3 ukulele)
Jessica Bowie – Vocals and Ukulele
Adrian Knowles – Double bass and bowed double bass
Rich Ferdinando – Percussion
Phil Doleman – lap steel
Sleepy Kev Bishop – harmonica
You can drop by anytime 3.06 (Nick Cody/ Jessica Bowie) (Feat The Meanwood Institukes)
Nick Cody – Vocals and National reso concert ukulele
Jessica Bowie – Vocals and Ukulele
Adrian Knowles – Double bass and bowed double bass
Rich Ferdinando – Percussion
Meanwood ukulele group – ukulele & backing vocals
Lullaby 3.48 (Nick Cody/ Jessica Bowie/ Adrian Knowles/ Rich Ferdinando)
Nick Cody – Vocals and Walking bass dulcimer
Jessica Bowie – Vocals and Ukulele
Adrian Knowles – Double bass and bowed double bass
Rich Ferdinando – Percussion
Total playing time 39.72
Email nickcodyscd@gmail.com for worldwide shipping rates and for both Small Change Diaries’ albums for just £18.
ADAM BLAMES EVE CD
“The Small Change Diaries and their album ‘Adam Blames Eve’ completely took me by surprise because it isn’t just another ukulele album but a well written, well played collection of lovely folk/blues songs. I highly recommend both the band and album.”
Ben Rouse
Ukulele player/teacher/performer with The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
“It’s an interesting sound, it’s good, I like what they are doing!”
Alan Raw
BBC Introducing
Nick Ahad after hearing “There’s only one of you” live on BBC Radio Leeds May 2016 commented
“That was beautiful, thank you so much!”
Includes “Birdman” “Miles Ahead” “Cold Mountain”, “I’m driven here to comment, & “Hey Rona” all played on BBC Radio.
Adam Blames Eve CD now available below for physical CD
£12 plus £1 postage and packing
For multiple copies PayPal to
nickcodyscd@gmail.com
GO TO BANDCAMP –
https://thesmallchangediaries.bandcamp.com/album/adam-blames-eve-cd
Also available on all ITunes stores, Amazon & Spotify
What other people are saying
Nick! Love your CD! Thanks so much for sending it to me. Love the string bass. That adds so much. Also the brushes on the snare drum. I love that sound. Sounds like a snare drum! Seems like the snare on some of my tracks sounds like a guy hitting a block of wood! Great vocals! I do really like your voice. Nice and out front! Congrats my friend. Well done all around. Art work, production, songwriting, and of course, cool ukes.
Pat Walsh
Musician USA
I’d just like to thank you all for an excellent concert last Friday – the audience really enjoyed it and we’ve received some enthusiastic feedback. Thanks for all the trouble you took to make it such a success.
Michael Harvey
Wetherby Arts Festival
PROTEST SONGS EP
“The Small Change Diaries have a really tight, sweet sound that’s immediately recognisable. On ‘Protest Songs’ they manage to fit in more ideas, musical and lyrical, in four songs than most manage on a full-length album with inventive arrangements and smart lyrics”
Phil Doleman Musician
The Small Change Diaries, based in Leeds, are an alternative acoustic ensemble, whose music is a fusion of acoustic, folk, blues, and gospel-style arrangements – accompanied by politically challenging lyrics.
Their EP, ‘Protest Songs’, is the follow up to 2015’s debut album, ‘Adam Blames Eve’. The four songs, starting with ‘Not One Of Us’, are upbeat and cheery sounding on the surface – but the light heartedness – which comes about because of the prominent use of ukuleles – covers up for the deep, sometimes dark lyrics.
‘Big Tony’, song two, is the perfect example of this. It’s sung in a bluesy, even swing style, but the lyrics tell the tale of a gangster, the “Big Tony” of the song, who commits a variety of crimes, bringing with him a feeling of fear and despair when he comes into town, “with all his crew”.
The Small Change Diaries comprise Jessica Bowie, Nick Cody, Adrian Knowles, and Richard Ferdinando. Their album, ‘Adam Blames Eve’, had selected tracks featured on BBC Introducing. The band draws their inspiration from current events, with the belief that more needs to be said about what really matters. ‘Commons Sense’ on the surface seems to a simple folk song – but when were folk songs ever simple – it’s a song about government, and with the beautiful vocals of Jessica Bowie, asks if the representatives of the people actually do that. It’s striking and disturbing and moving, a protest song reminiscent of those of Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joan Baez, or Joni Mitchell.
Essentially Pop
“Alternative acoustic ensemble ‘The Small Change Diaries’ has released their brand new EP ‘Protest
Songs’. The EP boasts politically challenging lyrics fleshed out by a fusion of acoustic, folk, blues and gospel style arrangements.”
Flavourmag
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