Brand New Morning

Twink a.k.a. Mohammed Abdullah John Alder - formerly of The Pretty Things, Pink Fairies, Tomorrow and the short-lived Stars (with Syd Barrett) amongst others - has been involved in a range of different projects and collaborations of late, including continuing his Think Pink series of albums, gigging with The Lysergics and other friends, and doing solo appearances (including recent dates in China).

For a rare couple of shows in 2017, including his guest slot at Kaleidoscope's 50th anniversary Tangerine Dream gig in London, Twink's band was essentially made up of members of Papernut Cambridge and Picturebox.....a kind of Gare du Nord "team backing band" featuring Robert Rotifer, David Woolf, Robert Halcrow and Ian Button.

It's that lineup who have now got together to make this new Twink single.

Brand New Morning was co-written by Twink and Picturebox's Robert Halcrow - it's a surreal Manfred Mann Up The Junction meets Piper era Pink Floyd pop song about optimism, waking up and feeling inexplicably better – "Morning! How d'you like your tea? Paper through the door, quicker than the day before…" - and features Halcrow on most of the instruments, plus Woolf and Button on guitars.

Dreams Turn Into Rainbows is a Twink compositon - over the foundation of Twink and Halcrow's guitars and bass, Rotifer plays some dream-psych lead guitar lines and Button adds some Mellotron cellos and flute.

On both tracks, Twink's rich vocals manage to convey a mix of portent, wistfulness and whimsy, as the optimism of the lead track melts into the love-lost melancholy of the second.