At this point, we all know that talking about Nick Garrie means talking about delicious songs, full of sensitivity and marvelous arrangements. Precisely because of this, Elefant is celebrating that one of the most delicate songs from “The Nightmare of JB Stanislas”, “Can I Stay with You”, is the star of the new digital single by this incredible British songwriter.

The thing is that if this song is so precious and full of appealing melanc…

The thing is that if this song is so precious and full of appealing melancholy and a romantic content brimming with life and a feeling of such universal love, the rest of the songs included on this new release, all of which come from a series of recordings from Portugal in 2002 with a primarily acoustic format (and from which we recovered a few pieces for the recent re-release of the deluxe edition of “Stanislas”), are equally so.

“Back in 1930” is unimaginably detailed, precious, a folk gem that shows us the first flicks of the tail that were confirmed years later on “49 Arlington Gardens”. “Chateau d’Oex Blues” maintains a more bucolic tone with a more pop melody, and a marvelous chorus that reconfirms the need to hunt down the complete discography of a songwriter that history has been tremendously unfair to. And to wrap things up, “Wild Wild Hair”, one of those timeless songs that could perfectly have been on “The Nightmare of JB Stanislas”, with its unforgettable arrangements, within its austere instrumentation, which emanate Mediterranean aromas to refresh the heart and the soul.

And if a few weeks ago we announced that “The Nightmare of JB Stanislas” was finally going to have a video thanks to “Wheel of Fortune”, the audiovisual material didn’t stop there. Along with the digital single, we are also releasing the video for “Can I Stay with You”, in which Nadia Mata Portillo paints a love story using stills. An actor plays Nick Garrie himself, as the protagonist of a love story full of exciting details, and the film shifts from sepia to color, following the heart as it opens and closes. It tells the true story that Garrie narrates in the song’s lyrics.

Fans of the British folk musician could not be happier about the release of this new single, where we continue to confirm everything that we missed in those 35 that Nick Garrie was absent. And that’s why, now, we are going to make up for all of it.