A song about loss.
Available on all major streaming platforms.
Video link.
youtu.be/S_3FVBbx-UA
Video concept, produced, filmed and conceived by Tom Mcdonnel.
Artwork by Dorothy Megaw, a brilliant Oxford based Artist.
Nightshift Magazine review
ASHER DUST ‘Send My Regards To The Old Town’ (Self released) This single, released ahead of but separate to a full vinyl album in the near future, is quite a stylistic departure for Asher ‘AJ’ Dust, even given his eclectic output. While his distinctive voice is instantly recognisable, his trademark mix of electronic experimentation, dub, r’n’b, soul and hip hop is replaced by a folky gospel lament for old friends “no longer around”, touching on suicide although it could equally be a rumination on the loss of the places where those old friends would meet. The arrangement is minimalist – strings and piano – but the chorus, with AJ joined by KTQ, Oliver Shaw and Desmond Chancer for a stirring hymnal workout, is both graceful and moving and it seems that whatever direction Asher Dust turns his musical sights on, he hits the bullseye each and every time. This is sad but also strangely celebratory and really rather splendid. Dale Kattack
released October 1, 2021
Written arranged and produced by Andrew AJ Jones,
Mixed and mastered by Umair Chaudhry
Additional backing vocals - KTQ, Oliver Shaw and Tom McDonnel