Woodcut (Deluxe Edition) Big Big Train

• 1 Inkwell Black 00:56
• 2 The Artist 07:16
• 3 The Lie of the Land 02:55
• 4 The Sharpest Blade 04:16
• 5 Albion Press 05:46
• 6 Arcadia 05:46
• 7 Second Press 00:37
• 8 Warp and Weft 03:45
• 9 Chimaera 05:37
• 10 Dead Point 05:28
• 11 Light Without Heat 03:22
• 12 Dreams in Black and White 02:34
• 13 Cut and Run 06:19
• 14 Hawthorn White 01:54
• 15 Counting Stars 05:40
• 16 Last Stand 03:34
• 17 Scene One (Demo) (48 kHz) 00:58
• 18 Scene Two (Demo) (48 kHz) 06:51
• 19 Scene Three (Demo) (48 kHz) 02:54
• 20 Scene Four (Demo) (48 kHz) 03:32
• 21 Scene Five (Demo) (48 kHz) 05:52
• 22 Scene Six (Demo) (48 kHz) 05:52
• 23 Scene Seven (Demo) (48 kHz) 00:40
• 24 Scene Eight (Demo) (48 kHz) 03:35
• 25 Scene Nine (Demo) (48 kHz) 05:33
• 26 Scene Ten (Demo) (48 kHz) 03:42
• 27 Scene Eleven (Demo) (48 kHz) 03:22
• 28 Scene Twelve (Demo) (48 kHz) 02:38
• 29 Scene Thirteen (Demo) (48 kHz) 06:12
• 30 Scene Fourteen (Demo) (48 kHz) 01:22
• 31 Scene Fifteen (Demo) (48 kHz) 05:24
• 32 Scene Sixteen (Demo) (48 kHz) 03:34
• 33 Chimaera (Live Acoustic 2026) (48 kHz) 06:38
• 34 Counting Stars (Live Acoustic 2026) (48 kHz) 05:22
• Total Runtime 02:19:46

Info for Woodcut (Deluxe Edition)

Big Big Train releases their acclaimed new album ‘Woodcut’. The landmark release for the international group marked their first ever full-length narrative concept album, exploring creativity, sacrifice and the thin line between inspiration and madness. Now, the band is pleased to share a new Digital Deluxe Edition of Woodcut, complete with demos of each track from the album, as well as two live acoustic tracks.

"Woodcut tells the story of a character we call The Artist, who is struggling with his creativity and with life. One day he is able to fashion a woodcut which he considers to be beautiful and different. Maybe it’s a dream or maybe it’s real life, but he finds himself stepping into the woodcut scene and into an alternative world.” (Gregory Spawton)

Alberto Bravin, lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards, Moog, Mellotron
Nick D’Virgilio, drums, percussion, keyboards, acoustic and 12-string guitars, vocals
Oskar Holldorff, grand piano, Wurlitzer and Fender Rhodes electric pianos, Hammond organ, Mellotron, synthesizers, vocals
Clare Lindley, violin, acoustic guitar, vocals
Paul Mitchell, trumpet, piccolo trumpet, vocals
Rikard Sjöblom, 6 and 12-string guitars, Hammond organ, vocals
Gregory Spawton, bass, bass pedals, 12-string acoustic guitar, Mellotron, vocals

Please Note: This album consists of different sampling rates. See track list - behind each track you'll find the sampling rate.

Big Big Train
was founded by songwriter Gregory Spawton in 1990 and went through several line-up changes during the course of five albums. In 2009, with the recruitment of a new lead vocalist, David Longdon, and drummer, Nick D’Virgilio, the band embarked on a fresh start. Since then, Big Big Train have earned significant critical acclaim in both the mainstream and music press, won numerous Progressive Music Awards, played sold out shows and seen their albums reach number 1 in the Official UK rock charts and break into the top 40 in the Official UK album charts.

After a lengthy period as a studio band, Big Big Train returned to live performances in 2015. Following successful mini-residencies in London in 2015 and 2017, the band headlined the Night Of The Prog festival in Germany in summer 2018. They toured the UK for the first time in 2019, culminating in a sold out show at London’s Hackney Empire, subsequently released as the critically acclaimed Blu-ray Empire. The band also released two studio albums in 2021 and 2022, Common Ground and Welcome To The Planet.

Tragedy struck Big Big Train in November 2021 with the death of David Longdon. After careful consideration, and with the full support of David’s partner, in spring 2022 the band decided to continue and brought Italian vocalist Alberto Bravin on board.

Big Big Train played their first live shows in almost three years in September 2022 in the UK and the Netherlands. Joining Spawton, longstanding American drummer Nick D’Virgilio (Genesis, Spock’s Beard, Tears For Fears), Swedish guitarist/keyboardist Rikard Sjöblom (Beardfish, Gungfly) and the Big Big Train brass ensemble, these shows marked the live debuts of Alberto Bravin (PFM), Norwegian keyboardist Oskar Holldorff (Dim Gray) and British violinist Clare Lindley (Stackridge) and guitarist Dave Foster (The Steve Rothery Band, Mr So & So).

For their shows in August & September 2023, Italian guitarist Maria Barbieri is deputising for Dave Foster, who has prior commitments with the Steve Rothery Band.

In August and September 2023 the band played 17 shows in nine countries over the course of 21 days, with Maria Barbieri deputising for Dave Foster. The band will release their first album featuring Alberto Bravin as lead vocalist on 1st March 2024. This will be the band’s recording debut for the InsideOut/Sony label. The album will be issued as a limited edition media book, featuring Dolby Atmos and 5.1 mixes by The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord as well as the regular stereo mixes by Rob Aubrey and Alberto Bravin, as well as a standard CD and in four different vinyl formats (black, tangerine orange, olive green and sky blue), as a Bandcamp hi res download and via all major streaming platforms. The band has announced a number of live shows for 2024 including four shows in the United States, co-headlining Cruise To The Edge in March and Night Of The Prog in July and performing at Cropredy in August.

This album contains no booklet.