Finally, after a litany of pitfalls – we’re good to go! The album is called ‘THE PARAGON OF ANIMALS’ which you may recognise as an excerpt from Hamlet’s famous ‘What a piece of work is a man’ monologue (see below). The release date has been set as the 21st of February and will be executed by our very own poverty-stricken but vehemently independent label ‘Wooden Step Records’. The record will be available in a digital format distributed via iTunes that will be accompanied by a pdf booklet containing the artwork and lyrics. We are also manufacturing physical copies – painstakingly assembled by our highly-dexterous, diligent and devoted production team (Me and Al) – consisting of a shiny shrink-wrapped cd digipak, a twelve-page booklet and lashings of love. Thank you very much for your interest in Four Quartets. It’s very kind of you.
“I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire – why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man: how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties; in form and moving, how express and admirable; in action, how like an angel; in apprehension, how like a god; the beauty of the world; the paragon of animals; and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me – no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.”
Hamlet, Act II Scene II
