Victorious Combinations

27 Jun 2007 All of the Love Current mood: mellow All of the Love Hello again, thought I'd post a slower song on the page as we've had the anthemic numbers up for quite a while now. As I've been rambling on about the process and reasons behind all the other songs I've posted, I thought I'd do the same for All of the Love. This was the centre of the album for a long long time. I considered it the best song, my most moving piece right up until I wrote Embrace (which came only after Isabelle and I considered the record complete). The original idea came out of an improvised piano idea, alone in the basement, just messing around, trying out sounds and plugins, attempting to come up with something that sounded real. I think I was obsessed with compression on pianos, the sound Sigur Ros makes so beautifully, so I'm pretty sure the virtual piano was smacked to death when I first played it. I put the improvisation away for a while until...

4 Dec 2006 A little video, "All of the Love" Current mood: calm Hello, this week I'm happy to tell you about the video I've edited together for our song, "All of the Love." It was a track we wrote about a friend of ours who died last year. The video is a time lapse thing, where we took a picture of the tree straight out our front window everyday (with a few exceptions) since March 2006. I edited the individual pictures to the song and added in some nifty little transitional shots to make it more emotive. Certainly not MTV glitz or big budget quality, but it's heartfelt and honest, and to paraphrase a friend's words: it helps you understand the meaning of the song. Have a look when you have time: it's only the first cut, but I can't imagine it'll change too greatly. You'll find it under our "videos" button. Thanks for reading, hope you're all doing well. Cheers, Mark