01 Underground 4.15

02  Piece-work 3.39

03 A ploy named Sue 4.42

04 In Deep 4.02

05 They say 3.34

06 King Sun, Queen Moon 4.12

07 Strangers 3.16

08 Killers 3.47

09 Scorpio Rising 4.05

10 The Word 4.10

11 What the Blues is for 4.29

12 Last on the Hill 3.03

13 Harley Girl 3.17

14 Woman I love 3.34

15 In Passing 3.41

16 Ad Astra 4.10

Total running time: 62.13

WHISPERS ON THE TURNING-GROUND

Brambus 2005 07-2 (CD.)

With Whispers on the Turning Ground Paul F. Cowlan releases his eighth album. Just as with his earlier long-players, the current collection is also individual and personal. Cowlan's humour, too, is characteristic. There is more political and social comment than in previous presentations. The title of the album is a line from the song, Strangers. He reflects on the topic of change, the further turning of the wheel, the past, the flow of time - elements which can be found everywhere on the sixteen-song album. Paul F. Cowlan has already been in the music business for thirty proud years. His songs aren't simple catchy tunes, easily assimilated, but whoever is prepared to involve themselves in the lyrics, and to let them work, will enjoy the depth of this artist.

Tagblatt St. Gallen. Region Kultur. Switzerland

This is Paul F. Cowlan's eighth album, the sixth issued by Brambus, and as his fans have grown to expect, he's as individual as ever. It's vintage Cowlan; sixteen tracks, encompassing social satire and political commentary; an alchemical love story; a word with magical powers; memories; and introspections; the answer to that perennial question, "What is The Blues for?" and even a trip out into the stars. Of course, the satire is salted with characteristic humour, and, typically, you can expect to be laughing one minute, and deeply moved the next. After thirty years in the music business his touch is as sure as ever.

The title of the album is a line taken from track number seven, Strangers, and the theme of change, the turning of the wheel, the passing of time, is reflected everywhere, not least in the graphics. Paul is a romantic and a humorist, a lover of life and a dreamer of dreams, but he's also firmly rooted in the real world. As he himself writes in the introduction to the liner notes: 

'I make no apologies for the predominantly political slant of the first eight tracks. In a sense all the songs centre on 'Killers', because although I wouldn't describe myself as a political animal it would have been difficult to live through September 11th 2001, and its persistent legacy, without echoes appearing in my music. The songs in the second half broaden out again into the world of life, love and laughter which, mercifully, always survives.'

'Whispers on the turning-ground,

hide-and-seek, and lost-and-found.

Reap the harvest that you sow.

That’s the way love grows.'

From: Strangers