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The Prayer Engine

by Paul McLaney & The Avalanche Trio

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1.
Newborn 04:15
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2.
Safety's Keep 03:28
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3.
Scars On Your Heart 06:32
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4.
Pieces 04:37
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5.
Second Guess 02:42
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6.
Free 04:02
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7.
Breathe Again 04:59
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8.
More 04:04
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9.
Some Kind Of Promise 06:32
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10.
Shelter Me 01:54
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Originally released in 1998 and now available digitally for the first time.

Reviews:

"It's not often one of our own captures heaven, hell and all places in between but Paul McLaney does. The Prayer Engine is his follow-up to last year's solo debut. Imagine Jeff Buckley and you get a sense of the dark and light places McLaney inhabits. The mood is one of aching surrender to an introspective melancholy that's always probing and questioning whether it's the emotional battleground of Scars On Your Heart or the fragile and featherlight Second Guess. McLaney uses an intimate backing crew including some dazzling violin work by Tarek Bazley, to stretch and tease his wounded loner vocals. There's no huff-and-puff ego posturing just some incomparably moving dark night of the soul music from the tonsil torturing Pieces and the jaunty Free through the shuffling jazz-tinged More to the velveteen edges of Newborn. If McLaney was anywhere but New Zealand he'd be getting the kind of serious attention that's reserved for the Buckley's and Morrison's of this world. He really is that good" - Mike Alexander, Sunday News September 27, 1998

"The Prayer Engine offers something with practically no parallels in New Zealand music - it's not recognisably part of any scene, just an astoundingly impressive work of depth and spirit..." - Gary Steel, Sunday Star Times, November 15, 1998

Thank you Ju.

credits

released December 21, 2023

Paul McLaney - vocals, guitar
Tarek Bazley - violin
Fraser Campbell - bass
Peter Vlugter - drums, percussion

Recorded on Tascam 8-track reel-to-reel May 3-7, 1998, Dunedin, Aotearoa.
Produced by Paul McLaney and Tarek Bazley
Engineered by Tarek Bazley
Mixed by Tarek with Paul
Mastered by Nigel Jenkins at Grafitti
Art direction by Peter & Paul
All songs by Paul McLaney

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Paul McLaney & The Avalanche Trio Dunedin, New Zealand

Paul McLaney & The Avalanche trio joined forces in Dunedin in 1997 and released their only album 'The Prayer Engine' in 1998.

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