Clientele, The - I Am Not There Anymore [2xLP PEAK VINYL Black in Red VINYL] - New LP

released July 28, 2023



Recorded at Bark, Snap and Klank Studios, London from 2019–2022
Assisted by Brian O’Shaughnessy, Marco Pasquariello and Simon Nelson

Alasdair MacLean – vocals, guitars, tapes, beats, bouzouki, Mellotron, organ
James Hornsey – bass, piano
Mark Keen – drums, percussion, piano, celesta

Daniel Evans – extra drums on ‘Blue Over Blue’
Sarah Field – trumpet
Dave Oxley – horn
Ruth Elder – violin
Non Peters – violin
Stella Page – viola
Sebastian Millett – cello

Strings and horns arranged by Alasdair MacLean and Mark Keen
‘Through the Roses’ arranged by James Hornsey and Alicia Macanás
Scoring and guidance by Christopher Taylor
Spoken word extracts read by Jessica Griffin
Spanish vocals on ‘Fables of the Silverlink’ by Alicia Macanás

All songs written by Alasdair MacLean and the Clientele except:
‘Radials’ by Mark Keen
‘Conjuring Summer In’ by Mark Keen and the Clientele
‘My Childhood’ by Alasdair MacLean
‘Fables of the Silverlink’ by Alasdair MacLean, the Clientele and Alicia Macanás
‘Conjuring Summer In’ quotes work from David Thompson, Gaby Wood, Rudyard Kipling, John Berger and Vernon Scannell

Front cover image: Long Life, 1823 by Kameda Bōsai, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Inside image: Carnival by Alasdair MacLean
Design by Daniel Murphy

The world is an aquarium; I see everything close up and yet cut off, made of some other substance;
I keep falling outside myself, without dizziness, without blur, into precision
—RB, A Lover’s Discourse

Παλιέ μου φίλε τι γυρεύεις
(My old friend, what are you looking for?)
—Giorgos Seferis, ‘Return of the Exile’