Toby Wren - Songs For Dead Sailors (2025) [Hi-Res]

Toby Wren's seventh album explores love and loss in the tall ships era through a song cycle performed by a Brisbane sextet. Blending diverse influences, it features fluid guitar, emotive vocals, and spontaneous interplay, creating rich textures. More contemporary than jazz, it shines in compositions, arrangements, and performances.

Toby Wren - guitar
Merinda Dias-Jayasinha - vocals
Andrew Garton - woodwinds
Sophie Min - keyboards
Andrew Shaw - double bass
John Parker - drum set

Tracklist:
1-1 Toby Wren - The sea, the sea [5:15]
1-2 Toby Wren - Counting sails [4:02]
1-3 Toby Wren - Guts [5:18]
1-4 Toby Wren - The good and the dead [4:20]
1-5 Toby Wren - At last lost love [4:33]
1-6 Toby Wren - The passing hours [5:49]
1-7 Toby Wren - A mirror, a glass [4:37]
1-8 Toby Wren - Oh, Janine! [3:45]
1-9 Toby Wren - The storm [3:52]
1-10 Toby Wren - The light below [4:04]
1-11 Toby Wren - Songs for sailors [6:31]
1-12 Toby Wren - Better left lost [4:17]