BC Camplight - Shortly After TakeoffFollowing 2015's How To Die In The North and 2018's Deportation Blues, Shortly After Takeoff is the final, and finest, chapter of what Brian Christinzio calls his "Manchester Trilogy". All three albums were created after the native Philadelphian moved to Manchester England. Just days before How To Die In The North was released, he was deported and banned from the UK due to visa issues. Estranged from his new home, his girlfriend and his dog,

Album comes on 180g double vinyl in Gatefold Sleeve All tracks remastered by Grammy Award Winner Paul Hicks (The Beatles/George Harrison/ The Rolling Stones/John Lennon) Package includes new written foreword by Jakob Dylan

it is difficult to ignore the work of Rebecca Clarke

With this release and a further one of instrumental and vocal chamber music

Other notable bandleaders and musicians featured in the recordings are Miles Davis

And after decades of secrets tore them apart

including house music

the performances are led by three different conductors: the eminent trio of Sakari Oramo

The thick fog of "Bedsong" is made up of little more than a Hammond organ found on craigslist and a few muffled drums piled with rags

Rare radio film trailers of the 50's like Ed Wood's 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' complete the picture

from Eddie Harris

his writing for other solo instruments is fluent and idiomatic

Someone is manipulating the players