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Lily's Gone Mad!
https://dougwoodsandcolinpowell.bandcamp.com/album/lilys-gone-mad
Here is 'Lily's Gone Mad', the new album from Doug Woods @thesoundtestroom and Colin Powell @AlterEgo_UK , featuring Dave Lionelli @Daveypoo .
During the recording of our previous album, Radio, which featured American composer and musician, Dave Lionelli, we decided it would be interesting to record a whole album with Dave and we called the collaboration project Lily's Gone Mad, which also became the title and subject of the album.
It was a fun album to make, with Dave adding a funkier groove and 80s vibes to the Doug Woods and Colin Powell electronic/retro Proggy style. We all mainly used Cubasis but Dave also used Auria and Doug also used Reason for some tracks.
We shared composition duties and instruments, with more crossover than usual on our albums, since Dave is a wonderful keyboard player as well as bass and lead guitarist. So all of us played just about everything at some point!
Here is a storyline that fits with the tracks on the album but feel free to make up your own as you follow Lily's journey:
Lily Louise Pepper is 23 and a Dreamer. She wakes up every day and goes to work for a strange man called Challis Juneberry in his Shop Of Mysterious Gifts.
Challis has (had?) a wife called Hildreth who is never seen any more. Challis calls Lily “Miss Lily”.
Lily feels lonely at the shop and she longs for something different.
Lily's sole living relative is her uncle, Floyd Pepper, a retired musician and vaudevillian who has been living in a retirement community in Surrey since the theater closed. Surrey is a boat and then a train ride away from where Lily lives. She often thinks about what Floyd used to be back in the good old days, before life and age took hold of him and made him more a brick around her neck than a person.
In her head she wonders about what happened to the unseen Hildreth and also thinks about her responsibility to Uncle Floyd, who she has to make such an effort to visit. Lily longs to be able to live her own life. She could be so much more if she was not tied to the shop and visiting her uncle.
Lily then feels guilty and gets upset and eventually has a breakdown as her emotions are ripped apart. Is she losing her grip?
Lily boards the train for the umpteenth time but this time there is a moment of clarity as Lily Turns a Corner. She makes one final visit to Uncle Floyd and “takes care of him”. Maybe she found him a nice nursing home? Maybe something else happened?
Lily then returns home with a new sense of purpose in life. Who knows where it will take her?
Comments
Massive thanks to @Daveypoo whose contributions to this album are huge 👍😁😎
Thank you both - it was a blast from start to finish!
Glad to see you guys having a blast. Greets from Portugal!
Ooh, lily sounds like a lovely lass.
Challis is my favourite, reminds me a bit of a spiritualized tune.
Did lily play the drums?
Great storyline and really enjoyed the music. You have all excelled yourselves this time. Congrats @AlterEgo_UK, @thesoundtestroom and @Daveypoo
It’s a wonderful sounding album with lots of different influences...love it all. Well done guys.
Well of course she did - every drummer I've ever known was a bit mad!
Glad you all like it so much. Those two lads have such a good chemistry already that I really wanted to be careful not to muck it all up.
Obrigado @pedro
Thank you @mrcanister
Thank you so much @receder
Cheers @TozBourne
You did a great job, @Daveypoo ! It wasn't without it's challenges...but we love challenges!
Great production guys... It reminds me in the style of Mike Oldfield way of things...... Not a criticism, but I hope I wouldn’t offend you, if I make a suggestion?..... Maybe add some vocals to it?...... say for example, in a “Enya” sort of thing?...... Who could be the voice of Lilly, maybe?...... Even a female “Ohhhh” f Ahhhh” floating ghostly in the background..... That sort of thingy...... Love it all the same!.....
Thank you @studs1966 . You are not the first to use the Mike Oldfield comparison (and I am flattered). You are also not the first to suggest the use of vocals but I will leave Doug to answer that one
Your very welcome mate..... I was a bit worried, as I didn’t want to sound a critic, to a superb Album..... & I know you guys work hard on it, & take pride in what your doing.....
@studs1966 - I'd considered adding lyrics or wordless vocals but I couldn't think of a way to not make it sound put-on, or too pretentious, or just that I was TRYING to shoe-horn vocals in unnecessarily. As we went on, I thought that the sound effects helped to fill that space a bit.
Thanks for the suggestions - feedback is always appreciated.
@studs1966 I'm a huge fan of vocal synthesis, but in the context of these albums, not actual words.
In previous albums I've used a lot of voices and vocal sounds, pads etc. But strangely that just didn’t seem to fit this project, although there is more in here than may initially be apparent, in particular on the track What Happened To Hildreth, there is a laugh at the beginning then a constant Bom, Bom, Bom that runs all the way through and ends with a sigh, all that was made with a Kontakt instrument called Voices Of Gaia, there is also quite a lot of vocal padding on Presenting Miss Lily Pepper.
Really pleased you enjoyed the album too👍
Your welcome.
Your welcome Doug...… Voices Of Gaia....Mmmmmmm, that's not a bad idea.... Or VOCALOID5?...…
Besides - recording vocals is really difficult with small kids running around!
Great release, mates!
Cool beans
Thank you @senhorlampada
Thanks for listening, @Max23!
Really wonderful playing here. I'm sure it's extra fun to know who's doing what and how the layers got added to the final mix. Did you plan out the whole story and then compose to fit various points in the story? Or did the idea of a concept "album" come later in the process?
Doug had the title from the start, and sent Colin and I the first round of tracks to add our parts to. From there, Colin and I contributed our own tunes and helped flesh out the story. Once we had finished all the songs, Colin suggested the final song order and story outline.
Wonderful collaboration made possible by the Metcalfe's and Moore's Law (i.e. Networking and CPU's running Music Software).
Thanks so much for listening - I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you @Max23 and @McDtracy
Yes, this was a real collaboration with everyone ding a bit of everything really. The story evolved from Doug's original idea as the tracks came in, helped by track titles, which help to give inspiration for more tracks to develop the story.
@McDtracy Pretty much always the idea for a story idea comes first, I’ll think that’s sounds interesting for a title or a concept, then the music to suit the mood of the thing in general, then over time it all starts to make sense, so all the pieces are designed to suit the story, there are no Pre-Existing pieces of music used, it all has to fit the story.
That’s the beauty and joy of the concept album😎🎩🤓🤪 In theory it’s much easier to write the music to suit the themes.