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Tom and Martin recollecting their memories of making The Story albums www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRV-RRO-ox0&t=995s
March 2018 will see the release of a new Story album, which mixes new songs with the remastered tracks from The Dawn Is Crowned - the first time they've been available digitally.
1. Her Name Is Love
[TW] "The bones of the song were mapped out whilst recording 'All Around Me' for the Tale Spin album - which no doubt accounts for it's psychedelic air. [MW] "Yeah, had fun with this - unadulterated psych culminating in one of Tom's best ethereal harmony fade outs." [TW] "We each worked out a lead guitar part for the break but weren't sure which of them to use, so bizarrely, we used both of them together." 2. Standing In The Rain [TW] "This was the last song we recorded for JRML. and is a journey of the mind featuring weather conditions, seasons and reasons - it isn't the first and it won't be the last if we have anything to do with it!" [MW] "Ha ha! Its really a sun and rain song, a shifting rythmn and a pretty oblique lyrical journey. A typically quirky piece from Tom." 3. For The Good Of Your Soul [MW] "On this track we inserted the backward guitar to bridge the bridge, so to speak, and threw in piano stabs for good measure - there are two basses throughout - one acoustic and one electric playing the same notes to get the undercurrent we wanted." [TW] "We had a good laugh singing and layering the backing to this - we wanted to capture the energy of the driving rhythm. This is the album figurehead - a real joy ride." [MW] "I'm old enough to know we've only got one life - so lets enjoy it!" 4. Running Out Of Time [TW] "A look at the superfluousness of religion today - what was understandable in medieval times now seems totally outdated (he preaches!)" [MW] "Unusually for us we gave an all electric backing to the song which augments it's anthemic nature - happy with the guitar breaks and the middle eight sections particularly- we ended the song abruptly just when you'd think it would continue - running out of time...." 5. A Stone's Throw Away [MW] "This was one of the first songs we worked on with the Joy Ride on Memory Lane project in mind and it took us out of the stream - Arcane Rising - and back on to the straight and narrow - well, ish..." [TW] "It's really just a singalong number that you could take home to your granny! We each wrote a section for it and the line-up is quite typical of our early sound - all-acoustic guitars and a tambourine dominant percussion section - plus harmonies of course." 6. Roundabout [TW] "Roudabout really came together once we worked the intro/extro piece into the song. It's sometimes difficult to get a recording down that does justice to the orginal concept you have in your head, but I think the result stayed pretty much faithful to the orginal idea here." [MW] "And it gave me an excuse to play some good-time piano - it was that sort of melody, couldn't resist! In fact I really enjoyed working on this song from start to finish." 7. Sixty Eight [MW] "From despair to expectation, boredom to creativity, poverty to elation - farewell to teenagedom. Turned out to be a great year! It''s really cooking by the last chorus - pleased with the recording of this one." [TW] "It's a song I remember from my childhood having first heard it on an old reel-to-reel tape. Loved it then and really glad we got a chance to record it." 8. Andromeda [MW] "I've always liked the idea of ambiguity in paintings - like Escher with the wierd perspectives - and the shifting of one form into another depending on how you view it. The lyrics are quite impressionistic - I found myself taking a surreal journey here through a world within a world." [TW] "You really must stop doing that... The sound conjures up a land of green and gold to me. Dream-like." 9. She Doesn't Care [TW] "I was idly strumming a couple of chords in the studio..." [MW] "...as I wandered in and started singing a melody - the song developed from there." [TW] "The verse and chorus all came about pretty quickly and I was still strumming the same chords by the end. A mood piece that is amplified by the emotion of the lyric." 10. Real World [MW] "It's all about losing yourself in the throes of creativity where the laws of time are suspended and the world comes alive. We kept the backing quite simple to get an open, airy sound." [TW] "This song contrasts nicely with some of the fuller songs. Always enjoy playing a walking bass on a folk-jazz fusion, - you can play just about any note and it'll fit the chord somehow!" 11. The Chase [TW] "Not sure how to describe this exactly - jug band music for ornithologists?" [MW] "It's an observational flight of fancy..." [TW] "Ah yes, of course it is." 12. Magic Lantern [TW] "It's really a culmination of all that has come before - all the uncertaintly is laid bare in a cathartic blaze of emotion whch finally frees the spirit." [MW] "We aimed to create a backdrop to reflect this kind of self-questioning and I think we got the sound we wanted, which is half the battle in such trips of the mind. After all - this is psych, folks!" |
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