Australian Exclusive Release

"Melbourne songsmith Paddy Mann creates quiet and soulful odes to broken bones and sorrowful homes, played and recorded with a beauteous aesthetic and filled with a lamenting sense of heartbreak and loss."
- Anthony Carew

Spunk Records in association with the Preservation label presents the fourth album from Melbourne's Grand Salvo, Death. In many ways, Death is the most fully realised fruit from the much lauded imagination of the man behind Grand Salvo, Paddy Mann. While previous works revealed the storyteller in Mann, Death is a complete fable of rich proportions. The album was conceived before the release of 2005's The Temporal Wheel on Preservation and slowly borne out over several years. As a result the songs are first class and the instrumentation is stunning. Grand Salvo has been a folk hero for many people around Melbourne for a number of years. He has opened for other overseas contemporaries like Iron & Wine, Smog and Joanna Newsom and toured with locals Laura Jean and Darren Hanlon.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Opening
2. Tree Falls In The Wind
3. Shaelem Relagh
4. Winter Approaches
5. Bird
6. A Hunter From Town
7. Bird Loves The Bear
8. Snow Falls
9. Shaelem The Hunter
10. Without His Friends
11. Bear
12. Journey Across The Ice
13. I Am Dead
14. Hunters Remorse
15. Shaelem Loved The Bird
16. Spring River!
17. Rabbit And Rat
18. Closing