We drink to forget the coming storm

by Leyland Kirby

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u3s6e9r This album is my comfort object, like something you had as a kid and kept it by your side into adulthood as you go through various confusing stages of life. I've never had such an object, but I discovered this album in my teenage. It has always been there when I needed it. Favorite track: Wdtftcs - Six.

hakr0cat Great for studying, reading, and thinking. It's like looking out of the window on a rainy day, somewhere far away in the countryside. Calming, lonely, and beautiful. Favorite track: Wdtftcs - Nineteen.

mrdiamondhead I thought it said WAFFLES One through Forty...

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	1.	Wdtftcs - One 07:35
	2.	Wdtftcs - Two 03:10
	3.	Wdtftcs - Three 01:47
	4.	Wdtftcs - Four 06:32
	5.	Wdtftcs - Five 03:08
	6.	Wdtftcs - Six 03:01
	7.	Wdtftcs - Seven 06:38
	8.	Wdtftcs - Eight 04:54
	9.	Wdtftcs - Nine 01:28
	10.	Wdtftcs - Ten 11:02
	11.	Wdtftcs - Eleven 09:38
	12.	Wdtftcs - Twelve 02:30
	13.	Wdtftcs - Thirteen 01:20
	14.	Wdtftcs - Fourteen 01:26
	15.	Wdtftcs - Fifteen 06:09
	16.	Wdtftcs - Sixteen 02:21
	17.	Wdtftcs - Seventeen 01:40
	18.	Wdtftcs - Eighteen 05:07
	19.	Wdtftcs - Nineteen 03:04
	20.	Wdtftcs - Twenty 01:29
	21.	Wdtftcs - Twenty-One 03:06
	22.	Wdtftcs - Twenty-Two 03:23
	23.	Wdtftcs - Twenty-Three 02:31
	24.	Wdtftcs - Twenty-Four 03:34
	25.	Wdtftcs - Twenty-Five 03:31
	26.	Wdtftcs - Twenty-Six 02:48
	27.	Wdtftcs - Twenty-Seven 11:14
	28.	Wdtftcs - Twenty-Eight 04:54
	29.	Wdtftcs - Twenty-Nine 03:15
	30.	Wdtftcs - Thirty 02:27
	31.	Wdtftcs - Thirty-One 20:41
	32.	Wdtftcs - Thirty-Two 06:20
	33.	Wdtftcs - Thirty-Three 03:21
	34.	Wdtftcs - Thirty-Four 06:06
	35.	Wdtftcs - Thirty-Five 03:27
	36.	Wdtftcs - Thirty-Six 03:20
	37.	Wdtftcs - Thirty-Seven 03:20
	38.	Wdtftcs - Thirty-Eight 08:02
	39.	Wdtftcs - Thirty-Nine 05:09
	40.	Wdtftcs - Forty 03:39

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June 2020
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A lot of people keep asking me for links to this one.
So it's been made available again for a limited time for free download
for the first time in over 6 years.
Best played on shuffle.
xx

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Original release information from 2014 >>

''We drink to forget the coming storm'' is collection of forty tracks released on my fortieth birthday.

For just forty days and forty nights it is available for free (and for a donation) as a thank-you for your support and interest in my works.

For those wishing to pay for this album you can.

As this is released for my birthday I would suggest the price of a birthday whisky to be a fair price for this collection should you wish to pay. Then I feel we will raise the virtual glass connected together for good health and fortunes.

Running in total at over three hours. It is not a fixed release and should be used sparingly in your own favourite track combinations.

It can be used to uplift on the low days, to gain strength and clear the mind. Each track combines the same elements piano, digital strings and synthesized choir. There are dark twists and light passages. It leads you somewhere whilst going nowhere.

A reflection of a time passing, a glimpse back into my own past, a look forward into the forthcoming abyss. Recorded through the darkest night hours during periods of disillusionment. There were no second takes, so we enjoy the errors and misadventures.

Like life itself wrong notes may be hit, there maybe the odd distortion, melodies drift and we hope to gain strength from the introspective nature of the work. We cover no new ground. We wear our hearts on our sleeves.

Wishing you all the best from Krakow where I raise the glass of good spirit.

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Recorded by Leyland Kirby at Bochenska, Krakow in 2014.

Digital cover art painted by the meister Ivan Seal.

Created from an original photograph taken by Jorge Ballarin in Room 808 at NH Sur, Atocha, Madrid.

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released May 9, 2014

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Leyland Kirby Manchester, UK

I wanted to be a bumblebee when I was a child.

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