New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - On the most ambitious album of his career,
Paul Weller saves the most mind-bending moments for last.
'22 Dreams' (Yep Roc, July 22) Weller's first album in three years, concludes with an ethereal four-song suite which flows seamlessly from stark spoken word to wordless tone poem, with plenty of riveting stops along the way. Read on to see what Paul has to say about these tracks.
God
"I remember [guitarist] Steve Cradock saying halfway through the recording 'what we need now is a spoken word track.
I had the lyrics in an old notebook. I'd written them seven or eight years ago. Then Aziz came down to the studio and we just did it. The fact that he's Muslim obviously gives it another dimension."
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"This is an experimental track. I've never done anything as full tilt as this. Me and Steve Cradock were playing two different mellotrons and Simon Dine was on the mini-moog. It was really liberating not to have a standard chord sequence. We really got off on that. It's influenced by a great '60's avant-garde group called AMM."
Sea Spray
"It's an optimistic tune. A bit of light at the end of the tunnel."
Night Lights
"There are a lot of mentions of the seasons in my songs, and this is another one. We recorded it with the studio door open. You get some beautiful sunsets down at the Barn. When we finished the final track, there was a huge electrical storm, and we took the microphones outside to capture the sound of the rain falling. It symbolises the year coming full circle'."
Paul Weller will tour the U.S. later this year. Stay tuned for more information.
