{"product_id":"cristaudo-wayne-when-the-night-does-fall-0793573565068","title":"When the Night Does Fall","description":"Wayne Cristaudo's debut cd When the Night Does Fall is a rootsy album where country, folk, blues and rock effortlessly meld with a cast full of characters: from Dolores, who takes off from her desert town to seek a new life on 'the snakeline of the highway,' as her husband breaks down, to Lucy and Billy, who kill their abusive fathers before being killed by the police, to the woman in the train called sorrow, who has the misfortune to fall for the smooth-talking Lothario, who just happens to be a strangler, to Harry and Mary, who have just got stuck with their lives. Then there is the woman whose beautiful face has turned into a ravaged wasteland, criss-crossed by all the lies she has told herself. There is also the young outlaw about to be hanged, exactly for what we don t know, but he certainly is not sorry for whatever it is that he has done. And in the midst of all this St. Expury's Little Prince makes a guest appearance to cheer up an adult crashed in sand, dispensing the wisdom that a tiger does not hurt a flower, before taking off 'to his planet with death.' On an album less full of flint and wastage this might seem twee, but here it serves to provide some relief. It's not the only relief, though. There's also that rather grand breast (if the surrounding landscape is to be interpreted as a symbolic suggestion of proportionality) that emerges from the dress of his beloved, enabling him to lay his head to rest and dwell in her 'shine.' And there's a little girl striving to touch the moon with a feather, a boy feeding hungry ants, an old man blessing the street from a stair, and even, what he hopes is, his dead friend's floating luminous body made of 'stars and moons and mountain streams.' Finally night and death comes to take us away. Love doesn't seem to die, though, and death sounds somber yet beautiful as welcoming ghosts and siren sounds come to greet. Death is just part of the deal. 'It's quite ok,' he sings on another song, where he thanks his dancing girl friends and drinking mates at life's bar, 'it is just life passing away.' This is music where love and hardship and death coexist without much of the usual romantic drapery that would fool us into thinking that kisses stave off deathbeds forever (in fact, for a long time, he was going to call the album deathbed and kisses). The music is tough, occasionally possibly harrowing, but it is more reflective than downer music, a readiness to accept death's permanent presence rather than a juvenile pantomime about its virtues, or a childish denial of its reality. If it sounds reflective, philosophical even, that's partly because Wayne Cristaudo is also a philosopher and his book Power, Love and Evil: Contribution to a Philosophy of the Damaged is also available from Amazon. If you like people like Leonard Cohen, Townes van Zandt, Gene Clark, Nick Cave, you might find this sits comfortably in the cd player along side them.","brand":"CD Baby","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53923281174870,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/cristaudo-wayne-when-the-night-does-fall-0793573565068","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}