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For the first time, the complete Songshifting trilogy – more than 800 pages in print – as a single e-book edition, fully amended and featuring a new cover design.Rarity Dean is a freelance music journalist who writes for the Grid, a music paper published by an unseen impresario, ostensible leader of a shadowy, repressive regime in a city that’s a blend of past, future and alternative present. Recordings are prohibited and the public is manipulated using Sentimental Hygiene, a psychotropic drug that’s administered secretly and en masse at impresario-sanctioned concerts. The state-sponsored Affable DJ Hologram provides the public with a false sense of freedom via this stylised, controlled form of live entertainment. Meanwhile, musos have developed what seem to be supernatural abilities. An ability to songshift – a benign but elusive form of time travel that enables listeners to slip into the relative safety of their pasts with the help of their chosen music – is prized and jealously guarded by punters and musos alike.Rival bands Scrooch and the Dust Bunnies unite to promote Imprimatur, a live, multiple-band event meticulously organised to draw attention to the ban on recorded music – provided they can distract the impresario’s agents Raguly and Nebuly for long enough to stage it. The two bands’ alliance is complicated by the fact that Scrooch bassist Fraser Carlyon and Dust Bunnies frontman Jacky Shannon are competing for the affections of Dirty Birds singer Sam Ratcliff.In part two, Requiem For Stage Diver and u0026 Bass Guitar, the Dirty Birds are touring with a show called Dangerous Mixture. Singer Sam devotes much of the band’s set to stage-diving among the punters. One night, at a club called Everything That Ever Was, she’s returned unconscious to the stage and dies from apparent asphyxiation. Rarity Dean attempts to unearth the truth about Sam’s death, which turns out not to have been a straightforward case of misadventure.In part three, An audience with the impresario, the stakes are raised when musos, journos and punters unite for their most audacious protest yet against the recorded music ban. Rarity is arrested and taken to the barge, the impresario’s headquarters, where she suspects she’s to be tortured by agents Raguly and Nebuly. Her muso friends resort to unusual firepower in an all-or-nothing rescue attempt. Meanwhile, Rarity must harness all her initiative to try and convince the Affable DJ Hologram that indoctrinating audiences with a new crowd control drug, Deludol, is misguided. Her experience as a songshifter proves invaluable as she masterminds a musical movement with the express aim of defying the authorities.”Music has been central to my existence for longer than I can remember. It’s not just music; songs are magnets that over the years attract particles from our history, creating a pattern unique to every listener. Music makes you feel happy and sad and a roaring cascade of emotions all at once – and you’re never really sure why. A day with no soundtrack is a wasted day.”By the author of Liquidambar (http: amzn.to QChmjx), Songshifting: Requiem For Stage Diver and Bass Guitar (http: amzn.to 2oVX1Je), The Concentrated Essence of Any Number of Ravens (http: amzn.to 1SYgbZr) and Saccade (http: amzn.to QChFel).”Songshifting: An audience with the impresario delivers everything a reader wants from the best of speculative fiction: a coherent world at once richly textured, vividly painted and centred on an idea that is both surprising and relatable – in this case the transporting power of music. Bell’s vision at once entertains and entrances. He has achieved that rare thing: a dystopia you don’t want to leave.” OLIVER HARRIS, DEEP SHELTER, THE HOLLOW MAN, THE HOUSE OF FAME”Songshifting occupies a unique place in modern fiction: a simple, elegiac story, fierce and uncompromising, it is at once a love letter to a forgotten era, a richly evoked dystopia, and an examination of memory, longing, and music itself. Speculative fiction needs more writers like Chris Bell, ready and able to interrogate our world on their own terms, and probe the darker recesses of our minds. Songshifting demands to be read” ROBERT DINSDALE, GINGERBREAD”Songshifting is wise, elegiac and compelling. It speaks deeply to what music means to us – not just as an art form but as part of our emotional landscape. Wonderful stuff” DAVE HUTCHINSON, EUROPE IN AUTUMN, EUROPE AT MIDNIGHT, EUROPE IN WINTER”Requiem For Stage Diver and u0026 Bass Guitar is a work of urgent and fascinating beauty, sparking with frenetic energy. I was lost in Bell’s colourful Pynchon-meets-cyberpunk dystopia from the first page. A real joy.” PAUL M.M. COOPER, River of InkWhat readers said about Songshifting:”[Songshifting is] as good about rock music as Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad – and in my eyes that’s high praise indeed. It’s extremely well-written … Chris Bell does a great job of showing how much Rarity Dean cares about the music under her outer shell of journo cynicism, and he also does the even more difficult job of writing about music, musicians and the touring life interestingly … Bell really knows his stuff when it comes to music, and he is able to convey that very well … [he] does a great job of communicating the growing fear, paranoia and dread that the impresario’s actions cause” Tim Jones, Beattie’s Book Blog”Bell writes excellently. It’s particularly rewarding to see that done around the subject of music because it’s such a hard thing to write about well. There’s a real and plausible sense of the future musical landscape despite all the bands being fictional, and the characters are well drawn””Songshifting has the authenticity so many attempts at capturing rock music in a novel lack”
Detailed Information
| Author: | Chris Bell |
|---|---|
| Publication Year: | 2018 |
| ISBN: | 9780473445 |
| Language: | English |
| File Size: | 3 |
| Format: | |
| Price: | FREE |
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