9. The Blue NileA Walk Across The Rooftops
Yeah, with this album, there’s a song called ‘Easter Parade’, and it’s the lyrics really of that sing that get to me. The details. It’s like a photograph and it’s just the most beautiful song, it captures the nature of memory, time… I love the production too, everything is so sparse but so well thought out and gorgeous. So this is about craft, I suppose. The quality of the musicianship, the quality of the recordings, the arrangements, the quality of his voice. And there’s something humble to it too, some melancholy quality to the lyrics.
I guess one of the things that’s come out of my own work the last few years is that I struggle to capture my feelings adequately in words. It feels sometimes like there’s too many of them, the scope is to vast and I have to go back to music and express myself there, which maybe, as I said before, allows for the listener’s emotional response too.
