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The Album
There is a seventeen year gap the two albums featured on this site. The previous Neil Murray album was "Return to Malibu" in 1994. The bit in between was a small matter of The Hamptons (www.hamptons.org.uk) and a pretty sizeable discography.
An adventure reflected in the music; songs, people, emotions, experiences. There are moments tucked away in all those songs that still make your hair stand on end (well, mine anyway). If there are even a few of those, it makes it all worthwhile.
There are a few on "Heartnoise" (2011), which pulls the last few years together. There are a lot of great players on the album, who must all be thanked for sprinkling a bit of fairy dust on the raw product. Musicians from Mark in Nashville to Nick in London. Jessica at Gravity Shack mixed and Kevin at Wired Masters mastered....and both did such a good job in bringing some homogeneity to a disparate bunch of recordings!
The original images for the artwork on this CD are reproduced on this site as they are compelling in terms of the link between what's in the heart and how it interlates with what's around it and expresses itself, in this case in sound. Thanks to Steve Caplin for honing them into final shape!
The Mayan calendar ends in 2012, but more sanguinely, perhaps marks the beginning of a new era. I'll go along with that....and have a nice bottle of 2002 Gevrey Chambertin to usher it in!
In the meantime 2011 wasn't so bad: got an overdue album done, got a new band together (even did a gig at Ealing Golf Club with the original drummer for the Kinks sitting in!), talked a load of rubbish in sundry countries.....AND and chaired City Rocks, the first ever rock concert held at the Guildhall, City of London, in aid of the Lord Mayor's Appeal, featuring Bond, Chris Difford, Katie Melua and Bryan Adams.....(now if only I'd written that Robin Hood song!)
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Photos for the year are in the Heartnoise Gallery.
We live in testing times; let's hope the final track comes to pass.
And as for "Song 13", well I don't know if that'll ever be sung....
Onwards and upwards!
Anon,
Neil (Nov 2011)
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