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| Artist : Louis Philippe |
| Album : The Wonder Of It All |
| Label : Wonder |
| Catalog # : WONDERa |
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| Source : CD |
| Genre : Indie |
| Language : English |
| Rip date : 2005-03-28 |
| Store date : 2004-00-00 |
| Rip tool : EAC |
| Encoder : LAME 3.90.3 --alt-preset standard |
| Quality : 192kbps avg VBR 44.1/Joint Stereo |
| Url : http://www.louisphilippe.co.uk |
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| 1. I Knew It All Along 3:04 |
| 2. The Wonder Of It All 3:34 |
| 3. A Wiser Fool 3:46 |
| 4. This Puzzle Of Mine 3:50 |
| 5. Songs Like These 3:36 |
| 6. My England 4:21 |
| 7. Soul Coat 3:30 |
| 8. An Ordinary Street 2:59 |
| 9. When You Retire Into Winter 3:29 |
| 10. If That Is Youth 5:01 |
| 11. I Picked A Flower In Ispahan 3:30 |
| 12. Life's Unhurried Prose 2:35 |
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| The wonder is that this record got made at all. Since the release of My |
| Favourite Part Of You, which had actually been recorded two years ago, |
| I'd lost much of my impetus to do the rounds of various record companies |
| to find a backer for the next project. The songs kept coming, the desire |
| hadn't waned, fans and friends were as encouraging as ever. But I'd been |
| struggling with my health, fearing at one time that I would never be |
| able to perform again. The heart and the mind wished one thing; the body |
| another - rest. |
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| And where to go? Favourable as the reception of My Favourite Part Of You |
| may have been, and proud all those who had been involved in its making |
| may have felt, I could not but wonder if it was all worth it - until it |
| became obvious that there could only be one answer to that question - a |
| big, resounding "yes". As Ken and I started laying down the first demos |
| of what would become the present album, we could sense that this was not |
| going to be an "ordinary" album. There was something in these songs - |
| twenty at the time, of which eight will have to wait to see the light of |
| day - which demanded a radically different approach to their treatment; |
| there would be no symphony orchestra, not even a string octet; no brass |
| either. I'd have to devise arrangements of a different kink, pick my |
| colours from another box. though there were rarely more than two people |
| in Ken's studio at any given time, we'd spend more time refining this |
| collection of songs than at any other time in my career. It should |
| convey a greater sense of intimacy, but "grandeur" too; it would be a |
| different light that bathed the record, one which what I'd written |
| demanded. As I discovered I could still be surprised by what I came up |
| with, the urge to carry on became stronger than ever. |
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| But this was no solitary work, far from it. more people were involved in |
| the creation of The Wonder Of It All than on any of my previous albums, |
| starting with the fans who had enough belief in my music to provide the |
| financial backing necessary to its completion. Their names appear on the |
| CD sleeve, since this record is theirs as well as mine. Others provided |
| their talent in the studio, and their encouragement from the sidelines, |
| until, late one evening in mid-October, we switched off the mixing desk |
| for the last time. |
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| It now strikes me as an evidence - Jonathan Coe may have (rightly) said |
| in the lyrics to the title track that "we live in an ocean of choices, |
| trying to swim as best we can"; but there is one island in that ocean, |
| which I'll always be drawn to, where there is no choice, but an |
| overwhelming sense of necessity. What flows within must run its course. |
| And there lies the greatest wonder of them all. |
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| Louis Philippe, October 2004. |
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| Note: CAT# is WONDER a (where a is a lowercase greek alpha) |
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