By the end of the Victorian era the world had become interconnected by technologies in a way that would have been unimaginable in the previous century. This album takes a musical look at the question "what did the Victorians do for us?" The eight songs consider a selection of inventions and new developments, and the changes these brought about in the day-to-day lives of ordinary people. There are songs about the affordable daily newspaper; the postage stamp; the bicycle; the department store; portrait photography; the demise of the tea clippers due to the advent of steamships; the industrialization of farming; and indoor domestic lighting. The album - the fourth from the Looking-Glass Lantern solo project - comes with a beautifully produced twenty-page booklet, the front cover of which symbolizes a world overrun with machinery. Dr Graham Dunnington holds a PhD in the history of the piano and music business in the Victorian era. Combined with a longstanding love of progressive rock, the outcome is the Looking-Glass Lantern project. Since it's inception, Looking-Glass Lantern has been steadily growing in popularity, with over 45,000 plays on internet radio and more than 3,000 followers on Twitter.

Tracklist:

The World Came Into the Home (6:02)
The Letter (4:14)
A New Freedom (4:49)
Inside a World of Wonder (10:42)
A Moment Captured (6:02)
The Great Tea Race of 1866 (16:48)
The Old Ways and the New Ways (6:42)
The Meaning of the Light (5:44)

UPC: 0799665805043
Label: Imports
Release Date: 11.27.20
Format: CD

Looking-Glass Lantern - World Of Great Invention (CD)