Wordplay
Music: David Campbell, Angie MacIvor, Aaron Clark.
Words: Angie MacIvor
Line-up:
David Campbell: guitars, bass, keyboards
Ange MacIvor: vocals, soprano sax
Aaron Clark: drums
Another song that was recorded live off the floor and bass added later. I added bass to all the songs so Claude could learn his parts and usually we replaced them, but this time we decided to keep it. The band played live and all the sax, vocals, drums and guitars are first take. I added keyboards and acoustic guitar at my studio later. This was the first song we finished and was a new direction for us; more accessible and verging on a jam-band feel.
I brought the music into the band without and lyrics and only the verse melody written. Ange created the chorus melody and wrote all the words. The middle section was improvised in the studio and unlike the versions we had tried earlier. There are some clams here and there, but the energy is right so we left everything as is.
The words:
verse 1:
Disturbing the heart and the head,
a heaviness descends.
Words spoken in a tongue of flame.
The three-eyed demon of,
lust, eny and deceit;
it knows your name.
chorus:
Close your eyes, nothing will be the same.
Close your heart, only way to escape the pain.
Pull away, retreat into yourself.
If you feel nothing you won't feel your own heart break.
verse 2:
Inspiring deep feelings of dread,
another chapter ends.
Mere tokens in a heartless game.
The three sweet angels,
fall on their knees and cry,
they cry in vain.
chorus
verse 3:
Disturbing the head and the heart,
like actors playing a part,
words spoken in a strangers tongue.
Inspiring deep feelings of dread,
another chapter ends,
'til the story begins again.
Music: David Campbell, Angie MacIvor, Aaron Clark.
Words: Angie MacIvor
Line-up:
David Campbell: guitars, bass, keyboards
Ange MacIvor: vocals, soprano sax
Aaron Clark: drums
Another song that was recorded live off the floor and bass added later. I added bass to all the songs so Claude could learn his parts and usually we replaced them, but this time we decided to keep it. The band played live and all the sax, vocals, drums and guitars are first take. I added keyboards and acoustic guitar at my studio later. This was the first song we finished and was a new direction for us; more accessible and verging on a jam-band feel.
I brought the music into the band without and lyrics and only the verse melody written. Ange created the chorus melody and wrote all the words. The middle section was improvised in the studio and unlike the versions we had tried earlier. There are some clams here and there, but the energy is right so we left everything as is.
The words:
verse 1:
Disturbing the heart and the head,
a heaviness descends.
Words spoken in a tongue of flame.
The three-eyed demon of,
lust, eny and deceit;
it knows your name.
chorus:
Close your eyes, nothing will be the same.
Close your heart, only way to escape the pain.
Pull away, retreat into yourself.
If you feel nothing you won't feel your own heart break.
verse 2:
Inspiring deep feelings of dread,
another chapter ends.
Mere tokens in a heartless game.
The three sweet angels,
fall on their knees and cry,
they cry in vain.
chorus
verse 3:
Disturbing the head and the heart,
like actors playing a part,
words spoken in a strangers tongue.
Inspiring deep feelings of dread,
another chapter ends,
'til the story begins again.
Recorded at Shattered Wings Studio January 19th 2009.
Gear used:
Drums: Pearl
Kick: AKG D-112
Snare: Shure SM-57
Piccolo snare: SM-57 (x2, top and bottom)
Snare Side: CAD E-350
Toms: Sennheisser MD-421 (x3)
Hi-Hat: Audio-Technica 4051a
Over-Heads: Neumann KM-184 (x2)
All into Daking preamps.
Electric Guitar: Howard Roberts Fusion into a radial direct box, split to an Adrenalinn and direct injected. The direct injected part was re-amped into a Mesa-Boogie Mark IV into a Neumann TLM-103 and a Millennia Media Origin channel strip.
Acoustic Guitar: Taylor 314-CE into a TLM-103 and a Millennia Media Origin.
Soprano Sax: Selmer Mark II into a Rode NT-V and Daking preamps.
Bass 1: Status Graphite into an Aguilar tube DI.
David's keyboards: Linplug Albino 3, G-Force Minimonsta.
Voice: Neumann U-87 into a Geoff Daking preamp.
Recorded live into Cubase Windows and transferred to Logic for final tracking and mixing.
Gear used:
Drums: Pearl
Kick: AKG D-112
Snare: Shure SM-57
Piccolo snare: SM-57 (x2, top and bottom)
Snare Side: CAD E-350
Toms: Sennheisser MD-421 (x3)
Hi-Hat: Audio-Technica 4051a
Over-Heads: Neumann KM-184 (x2)
All into Daking preamps.
Electric Guitar: Howard Roberts Fusion into a radial direct box, split to an Adrenalinn and direct injected. The direct injected part was re-amped into a Mesa-Boogie Mark IV into a Neumann TLM-103 and a Millennia Media Origin channel strip.
Acoustic Guitar: Taylor 314-CE into a TLM-103 and a Millennia Media Origin.
Soprano Sax: Selmer Mark II into a Rode NT-V and Daking preamps.
Bass 1: Status Graphite into an Aguilar tube DI.
David's keyboards: Linplug Albino 3, G-Force Minimonsta.
Voice: Neumann U-87 into a Geoff Daking preamp.
Recorded live into Cubase Windows and transferred to Logic for final tracking and mixing.
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