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For a year I have been doing sequencies and arrangements. "I didn't even want to think that I was composing songs for an album, I just simply started to make them.In the past, the music and the lyrics came out almost simultaneously, but this time I just started with the music. James Taylor sang on a song called 'Fill Her Up', Stevie Wonder played on 'Brand New Day', Branford Marsalis played saxophone on 'Tomorrow We'll See' - a song about transvestites - and Cheb Mami sang on 'Desert Rose'." Three percussionists, Dominic, myself, three or four keyboard players, and an Orchestra. There's two drummers, Vinnie Colaiuta and Manu Katche. It gave me so many opportunities to have fun. I don t play any piano or keyboards on this record I was in love with this guitar synth. Dominic Miller plays the colours, which he's really good at. I typically play the simple guitar bits, the centre of the songs. "I play all the bass on my Fender P-bass, and then I play a Roland guitar synthesiser, and a classicla guitar. They're all connected in that sense, and I think it's quite a romantic record. I had no plan that the songs would be connected in any way, because the music was quite disparate, but I ended up with 12 songs that were really love stories in the very traditional sense - but with "lover" always as a metaphor for something larger, some larger philosophical thought or religious view of the world.
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Some days nothing would emerge out of the mist, and other days whole characters would emerge. So I would take an hour of music away with me on my walks around the woods in Tuscany, and try and allow characters or stories to emerge, rather like the way I imagine sculptors work - they find a piece of rock and see a bit of a nose here, and a bit of an arm or leg there and end up with a body. I finished and sequenced an hour of music without any idea of what it was about lyrically! This is not the normal way I work, which is to write lyrics first or second but always in the same period of time as the music. So I just jammed around for a month or two, and picked bits out and started to loosely structure songs without any lyrics. I converted a granaio, a big barn, into a playing space with a little desk in it. I pretended I was just gonna get some musicians together and have fun in the house and jam a little, and then pick the bones out of the jams in the mornings, and then adapt them a little bit. "I started last summer, but I pretended I wasn't working on a record.