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Atmospheric art song of sublime grandeur, taken from the forthcoming album Alterations. The Forecaster is the 'almost-classical' counterpart track on that album to The Death Of Copyright.

The Forecaster was a finalist in the Open category of the UK Songwriting Contest 2011.

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She sings the forecast
Languorous and gorgeous
Clouds moving southwards
Hazardous ambassadors

Mmmm...

Snow looms for curlews
Sleet down on lower ground

Clear skies by morning
Black ice then forming
Expect disruption
Widespread til luncheon

She sings the forecast
Lowestoft to Fishguard
Well-versed assertions
The cadence of seasons

Mmmm...

All our futures
From Bracknell to Lancaster
Storms and warm fronts
And warnings of coastal fog
Falling pressure
From Thurso to Exeter
Drizzly days with no end
She wryly smiles
No extremes in these Isles

A flourish to finish
The temperature cadenza

So ends the broadcast
Fine science and hard art
All's dark
All's dark

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from The Death Of Copyright EP, track released July 11, 2011
Written and arranged by Mark Northfield. Lead vocal by Jon Payne. Piano played by Mark. Strings played by Gillon Cameron/Nick Barr/Tony Woollard.

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Mark Northfield Reading, UK

Pianist and singer/songwriter from Berkshire, England. Also founder member of piano trio Cherry Mint Koala. Mark makes eclectic, melodic and slightly melancholic pop/rock, with prominent classical and theatrical influences. Often collaborates with other vocalists drawn from a variety of genres. Somewhat unpigeonholeable. ... more

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