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Finally, after 15 years, the long-awaited(!) INTERFACE CD is now available. Click on the thumbnail below to see the cover design by Sarfraz Bashir (Photoshop guru extraordinaire) and yours truly (pretentious pixel pusher). The background (thumbnail right) is from a doodle I did back in 1977.

The Interface cover	The Live Album	The doodle

Highlights of the album include:

MY version of Vienna by Midge Ure & Ultravox. I always thought Vienna was a great song, but too short! It just gets going, building up to something, then all of a sudden, it's over - promising, but never delivering. So I added an instrumental middle section by modifying the existing themes already in the song. It does, however, make the whole song about 8 minutes in length. (If Midge Ure reads this, I hope he approves!)

November - another 8 minute epic with everything but the kitchen sink thrown in, including a long central instrumental in 7/16 time. What's it about? Well, I'll give you a clue - it's something do do with banging your head against a brick wall, basically.

An instrumental called Pavanne, written for a girlfriend who was tragically knocked down and killed on a pedestrian crossing. (Or was she? I never found out.) I wanted this to sound like a full orchestra, but a string synth was all I had. The lyrics are left unsung, but go:

"Life, life can be cruel
And God knows, it's short as a rule.
Tomorrow I'll be
Another day older..."

Listen to the tune and just think the lyrics.

The Marathon - which lives up to its name, starting in C and going up a gear after every chorus to end up in E by subtle chord changes. Although this sounds pretty good, I never got the mix right, and it's not a patch on what I wanted it to sound like. Partly inspired by "Time" from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon (no record collection is complete without it), in which Roger Waters sings,

"And then one day you find
ten years have got behind you
No-one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun".

How true. Where did the last ten/ twenty / thirty years go?

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