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Red Cable Sunday releases debut single "Prelude To The Nocturne", evoking George Gershwin, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass, Max Richter and Debussy along the way.

"Prelude To The Nocturne" typifies the Red Cable Sunday manifesto – a deliciously dark re-writing of the idea of blackness, it is an abstract and otherworldly piece of grand piano magic, starting in the sunlight and ending in twilight, it conjures images of big cities like London and sings of the adventure and exhilaration of darkness and the night, the perfect antidote to the poisonous idea that blackness and darkness are evil – an idea originated by Malcolm X that still needs promoting today.

Red Cable Sunday founder Denis Fernando says: 'When bands talk about their music being ‘darker’ they usually mean bleaker, miserable and negative. As a black person, I have had to challenge that idea all my life – the most beautiful part of this song is its ‘darkest’ part - a reminder that for some of us darkness has been, is and always will be beautiful'.