I grabbed my iphone recently and made this weird video for a track from our latest album Woods of El
Made in Elwood - walking beside the canal....
When Chrissie and I went overseas in 2015 I decided to take a notebook and pen and write a whole bunch of lyrics analog style.
These became Well of Souls.
Working on lyrics on the Amalfi Coast. Someone has to do it...
Chrissie on the Amalfi Coast
Domino's Amalfi style
Torre dei Normanni, Amalfi. We had dinner here...
Pompei. Inspired the song Vesuvius ...
Tuscany. Didn't inspire a song but still very beautiful...
On the island of Miyajima near Hiroshima. Working on words that morphed into Aisle (not Isle) of Shrines.
"Miyajima, Isle of Shrines. Temples float upon your sea."
Arrived early in Kyoto. Found a time and killed it.
Floating. Like Japanese lanterns...
Turning Japanese...
As we travelled through Sicily I was listening to Selling England by the Pound by Genesis (with Peter Gabriel). Must confess I love this record so much I borrowed a few lines for my song "Ionian Sea" . Sorry Peter...
Ionian Sea. Sicily
After an arduous "exodus" from Sicily, we finally arrived in Israel. Israeli dancing in Tel Aviv. (Chrissie teaches Israeli dancing back in Oz.)
In Haifa at Fatoush. Chrissie is hungry....
Finally...
I'm in a taxi, riding round the Sea of Galilee. True story turned into song
Went to the Jordan River where they say that Jesus was baptised by John.
Walked up the hillside. Where it was said, the meek shall inherit the earth
Went to Masada. Look out on the end of the earth, that's all you'll see.
Stayed in Nazareth. The home of the carpenter's son.
Jerusalem. The song Well of Souls came from here.
Sailing away on that day. Dead Sea
Trouble in the Old City. Well of Souls, boiling over...
And I taste and I spoil, all of your spices.
Hovering like a white fly...
The Garden of Gethsemane
I will take you back.
Sea of Galilee continued.... I'm in a fountain of pain. Kidney stones in Hong Kong on the way home. Ouch.
Home sweet home. Now to finish these songs.....