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BEHIND
THE LIGHT
AFTER
ALL THESE YEARS
AND SO THE DREAM GOES ON
STAY BESIDE YOU
NOBODY KNOWS
RISING
BEHIND THE LIGHT (Closer / You Never Left Me / Closer Still / Always
With You)
FADE
RECORDED AT BERRY STREET STUDIOS BY KEVIN PORÉE
PRODUCED
BY BREATHLESS AND KEVIN PORÉE
BREATHCD19
Behind The Light was by far the most enjoyabl album we’ve
so far recorded. Even the mixing which is usually a very painful process
was rendered painless thanks to the wonders of modern technology,as
if one is unhappy with just one tiny thing in the mix one can just
change it in 5 minutes rather than having to remix the whole track,
which would normally take about 4 or 5 hours. Also Kevin is very easy
and quick to work with. Sometimes if an engineer takes ages setting
things up or trying to get a particular sound one can just lose that
edge and spontaneity and give a less good performance.
Although we did edit a few of the songs down to shorter lengths on
Behind The Light all the songs were structured and well rehearsed
before we recorded them, unlike Blue Moon . And in fact both Behind
The Light and Nobody Knows were in our set when we played Upstairs
At The Garage a couple of years ago, though at the time Nobody Knows
was really uptempo.
Although we really hate to record using headphones we had to use them
on a couple of songs (Stay Beside You and Nobody KNows) as they were
built around sampler tunes with very strict timing. Once we’d
recorded these and heard how tight everything sounded we decided to
use headphones and a click track on the end of Behind The Light and
Rising.
We’ve often been compared to Pink Floyd, but I think that Behind
The LIght is by far the most Pink Floyd like thing we’ve done
so far, especially the ambient beginning which takes up about half
the song.
And So The Dream Goes On is very Kraut Rock sounding based on a sampler
pattern but using real very regimented sounding drums a bit similar
in some ways to the title track of Times And Waving.
Fade is an ambient instrumental a bit like the two instrumentals on
our last single.
Rising is the most traditional sounding song in terms of structure
and tune, uptempo with strummed bass and pounding drums., while Nobody
Knows and After All These Years and Stay Beside You are the melancholy
ballads of the album, though Stay Beside You is different to the other
two in that it is built around a sample that acts as a drone, onto
which everything else is layered to create an almost symphonic effect,
whilst Nobody Knows and After All These Years are sparse and melodic
with strong vocals more in the vein of Pride or Goodnight.
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