A Blaze Of Feather unveils new song "Witching Hour"

"Witching Hour" is the third single to be shared from Labyrinth, following July's "Magpie" and "Clock Hands" tracks.

A Blaze Of Feather, aka Mickey Smith, says of the new outing, "This song came about in the ultra-early hours last spring. My mind was rushing at about 3am, and I couldn’t sleep. I’ve heard they call this strange warp of the clock the witching hour, and that name resonates. It can be a hyper creative state, but also torturous with wild memories, thoughts and feelings playing out like winter storms. Waves of positive and negative energy. Past and future scenarios play out, bringing hot cold sweats. On a bad night, the feeling of relief when the sun starts rising and the madness starts to leave is tangible."

He adds, "That morning it got light early and I just went straight up to the shed where I record my music, at about 4.30am. The maddest dawn chorus was exploding with colour and sound so bright. It made me think of a Cornish word ‘Kanndir’ that translates roughly as ‘bright ground’. I recorded some of the bird-song outside and then drifted into my own musical world, picking up the pieces. This tune came out of that session, and was all really done within a few hours, lost in a haunted dream. It’s amazing how a simple sunrise, daylight, making it through those intense hours can reset everything, feels like you get another crack at it all."

Labyrinth will follow on from 2017 self-titled debut LP, and was written, recorded and produced by Smith himself from a converted shed in his own garden in Cornwall.