Zürich STRANGERS AND MADMEN 00:00:29 BIGGER THAN LOVE 00:03:57 3 SECONDS 00:08:07 SYJ 00:12:07 VALENTINE 00:14:56 CLICKY 00:19:39 ROMAN ROAD 00:24:01 PERFECTLY SIMPLE 00:28:10 BLUE MURDER 00:33:17 THE DAY THAT NEVER WAS 00:38:56 DESERT FEVER 00:44:11 DARK STAR Christian Hayes ~ Voice and Guitars Laurence O'Keefe ~ Bass and Voice David Francolini ~ Drums Dark Star signed to Harvest Records, the progressive rock subsidiary of EMI. The band went on to release several EPs and a debut album, Twenty Twenty Sound, produced by Steve Lillywhite. Following the touring and promotion of Twenty Twenty Sound, the band entered the studio to record the follow-up. STRANGERS AND MADMEN was mooted as the lead off single and received its first play on The Evening Session, hosted by Steve Lamacq. Due to a change in personnel at EMI and a general lack of interest from the label in the new material, it was agreed the two parties would part. The band subsequently split in 2001 with no official announcement, to pursue different projects. They were unable to release the already recorded second album, so a bootleg of pre-master mixes of this album is now in circulation, entitled 'Zurich' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Star_(band) Dreams That Money Can Buy is a 1947 experimental feature color film written, produced, and directed by surrealist artist and dada film-theorist Hans Richter.The film was produced by Kenneth Macpherson and Peggy Guggenheim.Collaborators included Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Darius Milhaud and Fernand Léger. The film won the Award for the Best Original Contribution to the Progress of Cinematography at the 1947 Venice Film Festival. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams_That_Money_Can_Buy The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) is an American International Pictures horror film, produced in the UK by Alta Vista Productions. Starring Vincent Price and Elizabeth Shepherd it tells of a man haunted by the spirit of his dead wife and her effect on his second marriage. The screenplay by Robert Towne was based upon the tale "Ligeia" by American author Edgar Allan Poe.The film was directed by Roger Corman, and was the last in his series of eight film adaptations largely based on the works of Poe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tomb_of_Ligeia THE ALBUM/THE FILM Zürich, the movie/album was compiled as follows. Zürich the album, which as said above has been in circulation in digital format for quite some time now, had a running track order of this: STRANGERS AND MADMEN BIGGER THAN LOVE 3 SECONDS VALENTINE PERFECTLY SIMPLE ROMAN ROAD CLICKY BLUE MURDER THE DAY THAT NEVER WAS Being well familiar with this sequence, I saw no reason to change it. But I also knew there was another song available called "Desert Fever." And a song that never seemed to have a studio version, only live, which was "SYJ." There are a few versions online of SYJ, I chose the best available one which came from the BOXED SET Scottish Television recording. It followed "3 Seconds," other versions it follows "Clicky." I felt SYJ after 3 Seconds sounded best. I also noticed that Valentine, Roman Road, and Clicky all mention cars, driving, traveling in some fashion. This made me reshuffle the order of the songs to highlight this travel theme, hoping there would be some movie images that would accentuate them somehow. The track order was amended to this: STRANGERS AND MADMEN BIGGER THAN LOVE 3 SECONDS SYJ VALENTINE CLICKY ROMAN ROAD PERFECTLY SIMPLE BLUE MURDER THE DAY THAT NEVER WAS DESERT FEVER The Tomb of Ligeia and Dreams That Money Can Buy I did not view before making Zürich. My original choice was 1964's "The Last Man On Earth" starring Vincent Price for the main body of the film. Something happened though where I could only import about 12 minutes of the film, no matter what I tried. Last Man was obviously a no go. So I chose Ligeia as a substitute. And rather than switch from colour to black and white, I chose Dreams That Money Can Buy as an accompanying movie. It started out mostly Ligeia, but particularly for the "Perfectly Simple" sequence and the black cat. It was making the majority of the film Dreams That Money Can Buy that makes Zürich a better visual/audio experience. (IMO) I also remastered the songs that make up Zürich as best as possible. A bit more difficult than with "Twenty Twenty Sound" and its b-sides/extra tracks, as they were WAV sourced, whereas Zürich was mp3 sourced because that's all that's available. The files are fairly brickwalled (apart from Desert Fever and SYJ), so there's not a lot of room to move around and bring out dynamics in the material, but there is a significant difference between what's been available, and my remasters. For the better or worse is subjective.

• published: 08 Jan 2015
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