Door One

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David released his first solo album, Wild River, back in 2004 but on joining Big Big Train, the band became his primary focus.

Accepting the change that has occurred and facing it bravely whilst keeping the memory alive, even though the loved one has gone. I will say that this tends to make the album feel quite raw, which isn’t a word I would ever have used for David’s music in the past.Right from the opener “Into the Icehouse” with its cinematic music, you can tell that David was trying to do something new.

Gary Bromham: “ Having worked with David on and off for over 35 years, we talked extensively about the influences for the album. It didn’t take me long to realise that David,’s voice was similar to Peter Gabriel’s but was certainly his own. It opens with Into The Icehouse, an instrumental, ambient piece of birdsong and minimal piano tones playing almost a lament. Given the circumstances, this wasn’t created as a “last will and testament” and I’m not going to look at it through that lens. Il grande frontman dei Big Big Train ci ha lasciati un anno fa, ma non prima di dare libero sfogo alla sua arte con questo album solista di indubbio valore, nel quale la sua voce inimitabile (anche se a lungo era stato accusato di "imitare" Peter Gabriel, Fish dei Marilllion e altri celebri cantanti del progressive più illuminato) valorizza al meglio alcuni brani bellissimi.

Album bello, ispirato, complesso ma accessibile, la cui qualità riprodotta sul vinile (nero, naturalmente) è ineccepibile e di gran resa sonora. This album was completed carefully by four musicians: Jeremy Stacey (King Crimson, Eric Clapton, Noel Gallagher, Sheryl Crow, The Finn Brothers), Theo Travis (Steven Wilson, Soft Machine, Gong), Steve Vantsis (Fish) and Gary Bromham (Bjork, Sheryl Crow, George Michael). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.