Writer Neil Gaiman has been busy with the Netflix adaptation of his acclaimed graphic novel series The Sandman (which came out in August) and he'll continue to keep busy in the world of TV with the second season of Good Omens, which is due in summer of 2023 on Amazon Prime. Amidst all that he's found time to record an album of original music. Signs of Life, a collaboration with Australia's FourPlay Quartet, is due out April 28 via Instrumental Recordings.
"I’m not entirely certain when I fell in love with a string quartet," Neil says. "I remember our first date, though. It was a day spent in a tiny room somewhere in the backstage maze of Sydney Opera House. We played the next night on the stage of the Sydney Opera House. It was remarkable. It was so much fun we did it again. We did a tour together, but when we reached Carnegie Hall, we decided we needed something better than me reading a poem as our encore, so we stole some time from soundcheck and rehearsed a song. And then we performed our song on the stage of the Carnegie Hall, and that felt a lot like something special. We started to build a repertoire, and when I was in Australia we would make music together. These are some of the things we’ve made together. It’s been a long fallow winter, the last two and a half years. Here are signs of life."