This Side of Paradise (Nigel Parry album)

Infobox Album | Name = This Side of Paradise
Type = Live Album
Artist = Nigel Parry


Released = 2001
Recorded = Hair of the Dog and Black Dog Coffee Bars, Saint Paul, Minnesota; Ramallah, West Bank
Genre = Folk/World
Length = 1:00:18
Label = Independent
Producer = Nigel Parry
This album = "This Side of Paradise" (2001)

*New Internationalist magazine "...a disc whose recommendation is its deftly managed intensity"

* Lydia Howell, KFAI Radio, 90.3/106.7FM, Twin Cities, Minnesota "Deeply moving songs... With quiet intensity, Parry gives voice to this 'invisible people' living under siege."

"This Side of Paradise" contains nine tracks of original material spanning a decade of songwriting by Nigel Parry. Six tracks were recorded live at the Black Dog Coffee Bar in St. Paul, Minnesota., on 16 January 1999, one from the Hair of the Dog Art Gallery in St. Paul, Minnesota., on 24 April 1999. Two home-taped tracks are on the album, from 1995 and 1998.

The album was originally distributed by the original incarnation of MP3.com, who went out of business in 2003. The entire album is now available as a free download in both MP3 and AAC formats at thissideofparadise.org [http://thissideofparadise.org] .

"From thissideofparadise.org:" "Although it's not unusual for singer-songwriters to travel around the world, Nigel Parry has lived in some pretty strange and scattered parts of the world. Nigel lived from 1994 to 1998 in the Palestinian West Bank, and the intensity and beauty of the music that these places have squeezed out of this unsigned musician is rare. Haunting tunes, multi-layered lyrics, and boiling emotion are just part of this Scottish singer-songwriter's presentation."

Track listing

*"Land Of The Shadow" [7:28]
* "This Side Of Paradise" [7:08]
* "Stage" [3:30]
* "Julia Roberts' Smile" [5:16]
* "Black & Blue" [6:30]
* "Too Many Thoughts" [5:45]
* "See How Both Of You Will Fly" [8:11]
* "Elapse" [5:35]
* "Forget" [7:25]