Waterhouse, Nick – Promenade Blue

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Includes digital download. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was a work so filled with ambition, yearning, and inner contradictions that it came to represent the condition of a nation itself. Yet, at it’s core, the slim novel tells a story about people and, more often than not, their inability to communicate and connect with one another ‘ forever running on parallel tracks until tragedy finally twines them together. The color green (often in the form of the faded sodium lit dock of Daisy Buchanan) comes to represent longing and unrequited love in an era (the Roaring Twenties) of decadence and spiritual vacuousness. Green is Gatsby’s North Star, simultaneously pointing backward and forward through time toward some unattainable, impossibly balanced version of his own life. Nick Waterhouse, a century later but once again in the ’20s, takes the color blue as his hue of choice on Promenade Blue. In Nick’s musical and lyrical

• – Disc 1 –
• 1Place Names
• 2The Spanish Look
• 3Vincentine
• 4Medicine
• 5Very Blue
• – Disc 2 –
• 1Silver Bracelet
• 2Promne Bleu
• 3Fugitive Lover
• 4Minor Time
• 5B. Santa Ana, 1986
• 6To Tell