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About Seventh String

'Seventh String' was released on 07/07/07 and comprises 7 songs, all with a distinctive intimate acoustic feel that James felt did justice to the excellent quote from Polly Gabriel:

"James's voice is like a seventh string on his guitar, it's uncanny how well the two intermingle with each other and the effect is captivating."

The opening track, 'Taken Down', includes the beautiful sound of the flute as played by Sean McBride.

The motif of the number seven continues through to the artwork, with seven seven-sided mandalas, each representing a different side to the dynamic psyche (Carl Jung said that Mandalas represented the Self), and lyrical references concerning visual and cyclic patterns also make the album an integrated statement on the nature of spiritual fruition, death and rebirth.

"A world turns upside down, but then comes full-circle, to be reborn in, perhaps, a wiser form."

Those who have been following James' music for some time will know two of the tracks, both 'Taken Down' and 'Write it on the Door' appeared on the cassette release 'December Demo', which circulated among James' friends from December 1991. Another track, 'What about Now?', has already been released on the album 'Long Way Out'. Other tracks have been regulars at James' live shows for several years, therefore these recordings are of mature and developed arrangements.

The first 107 CD copies of 'Seventh String' will be individually numbered, signed and dated as at the day of being hand-made by James himself.