06-10-2019, 19:43
Marillion – various bits and pieces, and a new track from their upcoming album which is a reworking of nine of their previous works plus additional instruments. From their site …
..."Since this year’s conventions we have directed our energies to the early part of our creative process which will lead, at some point, to our next studio album.
However, we also took a quiet decision that it could be a beautiful thing to re-record some of our catalogue along with our friends from the orchestra.
So our brilliant producer and collaborator Michael Hunter wrote some new string arrangements and we took a week out to go to Real World Studios and record with our friends - the wonderful string quartet "In Praise of Folly", the brilliant flautist Emma Halnan and the gifted French Horn-ist, Sam Morris.
The result has exceeded our expectations, is indeed a thing of beauty, and gives us the chance to release this eighty-minute CD to accompany our forthcoming November-December European tour together.
We hope you enjoy the songs and agree with us that some of them are actually better than the originals(!)
Whether or not you agree with that bold statement we’re sure this work will move you." ... http://www.marillion.com/news/newsitem.htm?id=465
I’ve only heard “Estonia” so far but am greatly looking forward to “Ocean Cloud” (about Don Allum – a lone cross Atlantic rower – people do crazy things!) and “The Sky Above the Rain”. Curious to know about the new studio album as well – it’s been a while!
Marillion seem to quite often be maligned and poo-pooed, but when they are good, they are very bloody good IMHO, and they write such interesting music. “Estonia” was inspired by h (Steve Hogarth) meeting the sole British survivor (one of 137 in total, out of 989) in the second deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history (Titanic taking the cake, so to speak) – the sinking of the cruise ferry MS Estonia in the Baltic Sea.
This Marillion line-up has been plugging away since 1989 and I really enjoyed this clip – you can see how comfortable they are in their skins … (incidentally the original recording included a balalaika – the only time one’s every been used in any of their stuff) …
..."Since this year’s conventions we have directed our energies to the early part of our creative process which will lead, at some point, to our next studio album.
However, we also took a quiet decision that it could be a beautiful thing to re-record some of our catalogue along with our friends from the orchestra.
So our brilliant producer and collaborator Michael Hunter wrote some new string arrangements and we took a week out to go to Real World Studios and record with our friends - the wonderful string quartet "In Praise of Folly", the brilliant flautist Emma Halnan and the gifted French Horn-ist, Sam Morris.
The result has exceeded our expectations, is indeed a thing of beauty, and gives us the chance to release this eighty-minute CD to accompany our forthcoming November-December European tour together.
We hope you enjoy the songs and agree with us that some of them are actually better than the originals(!)
Whether or not you agree with that bold statement we’re sure this work will move you." ... http://www.marillion.com/news/newsitem.htm?id=465
I’ve only heard “Estonia” so far but am greatly looking forward to “Ocean Cloud” (about Don Allum – a lone cross Atlantic rower – people do crazy things!) and “The Sky Above the Rain”. Curious to know about the new studio album as well – it’s been a while!
Marillion seem to quite often be maligned and poo-pooed, but when they are good, they are very bloody good IMHO, and they write such interesting music. “Estonia” was inspired by h (Steve Hogarth) meeting the sole British survivor (one of 137 in total, out of 989) in the second deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history (Titanic taking the cake, so to speak) – the sinking of the cruise ferry MS Estonia in the Baltic Sea.
This Marillion line-up has been plugging away since 1989 and I really enjoyed this clip – you can see how comfortable they are in their skins … (incidentally the original recording included a balalaika – the only time one’s every been used in any of their stuff) …
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