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A
wonderfully warm set of songs, often concerning distances
and journeys.
Stunning harmonies throughout from The Talking Fish. Featuring
special guest Vikki Clayton on 1 track
Chris
Conway -
vocals,
acoustic & electric 9string guitars, keyboards, tin
whistle, bamboo flute, kalimba, mandozither, percussion
The
Talking Fish
Simon
Styring -
-
electric & classical guitars, vocals
Neil
Segrott -
bass,
electric & classical guitars, vocals
special
guest
-
Vikki
Clayton -
vocals on 13
.
.
background
Flying
Home is a very sounding album. After the hard work to
sound varied and lively on his debut, Christo wanted
to make a more laid back album with a mellow atmosphere
throughout.
He chose to do it with his Talking Fish trio and focus
on their excellent harmonies. He had a lot of new songs
to bring to the album.
This also marked the time CC worked with Vikki Clayton
- he had just assited with her demos for her Movers
& Shakers album and plucked up courage to asked
her to sing on this album. He went on to join her band.
It was at this time he started touring Germany.
influences
David
Crosby, Buffy Sainte-Marie, John Sebastian, Alan Stivell,
Dan Ar Braz, Jesse Colin Young
technical
The Music Kitchen was across the park from CCs house -
8 track reel-to-reel - 7 of the tracks were recorded pretty
much live, others layering over midi pre-production.
CC's
fave track
Coming In To Land
trivia
The presence of Vikki Clayton on the album at a time when
she hadn't had a release for a while did wonders for sales,
especially when he started played gigs with her.
He also realised after making this album how many tracks
were to do with journeys and distances - something he
puts down to moving home a lot as a child.
