Dark yet uplifting melodies combine with strings, brass, warm electronica
and James Cook's trademark razor sharp lyrics to bring a unique and
insightful pop experience that engages both head and heart. To promote
'Adventures In Ausland' James releases the single 'Lilly'(a Lover's
Dream) which will also form the first part of a video trilogy, loosely
based around a time traveling theme.
'Lilly' the song and video was inspired by a dream as James explains 'both
came to me full formed one night as a dream, I woke up and recorded the
riff and went back to sleep. The dream continued and upon waking, I
wrote the entire lyrics out exactly as they had appeared to me in the
dream. As for the album 'Adventures in Ausland' formed in my head as
the title, and the songs soon started to become 'episodes' from the
narrative. I decided to bring this idea to my animator/director friend
Graeme Maguire and we conceived a trilogy of videos.'