Here’s the latest video from musician and songwriter Cole Stacey. Over a light, bright acoustic strum, high on the frets, Stacey delivers a powerfully emotional vocal. In this atmospheric version of the song, recorded live in a former Edwardian chapel on the banks of the Tamar River, Stacey manages that rare feat of being truly captivating with just a guitar and his voice. The original was written at Brentor on Dartmoor, where England’s highest working church is sited in a place shrouded in folklore and mystery, an inspiring location from which evocative music emerged.
Stacey says of the video: “I’ve kept it entirely as I originally wrote it, sat in the church on the tor, connecting an octave mandolin and a voice with an extraordinary place, it speaks of a deeper spiritual connection to place and surroundings than I’d ever witnessed before. Beautifully filmed by Abigail Barton, her always inspiring vision captures me performing in front of the view and that remarkable window, capturing the warmth projected in this beautiful former chapel.”
As a member of alt-folk group India Electric Co. and part of legendary musician Midge Ure’s band for 10 years, Stacey has already enjoyed a successful career in music, performing across the UK and Europe, from The Royal Albert Hall to the Glastonbury Festival. Now, he’s releasing his own material, and ‘Feast or Fire’ features on his debut album, “Postcards From Lost Places”, which is out now and reached number 20 in The Official Folk Charts. Written and recorded in a former Victorian Clay Factory and on prehistoric sites on Dartmoor, the album is themed around ‘lost’ places and words, taking us back in time as far as the 13th century. Check out the album and absorb Stacey’s sensitive, thoughtful lyricism.
