However, I browsed enough of the work to put together a collection of songs in tribute to this, until now, unsung hero that we all owe so much to. No one has read the complete account to my knowledge. I only managed to read a few random pages that were gifted to me. It was written in the aftermath of a devastating near defeat as part of a process of mental recuperation. This fragmented memoir recounts some of his escapades and significant moments in his self-willed career as a thorn in the side of ‘The Cathedral’. I asked him to tell me about the Angus Tempus Memoir album.Īngus Tempus is a gentleman adventurer.

A seer & a soothsayer but a Dumb Magician.

Despite being one of England’s greatest songwriters he never had a Top Ten hit or got his music on an advert… he was in the business of expanding his consciousness and creating art and not the business-side of music. Martin Bramah is one of those ‘legends’ & heroes who probably struggles to pay the bills. Only a homing-pigeon can be trusted with freedom…. The new album is subtitled (souvenirs from the subconscious). The press release describes their music as intellectualised psychedelia. Blue Orchids have released more new music in the last six years than in the whole of the thirty-five years prior to it – the subtle originality of their sound permeates each of their releases, down primarily to original member Martin Bramah‘s singular vision.

Blue orchid album