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Chris
Conway -
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piano, keyboards, flutes, voice, kalimba, acoustic & electric
9 string guitars |
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Neil
Segrott -
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bass,
electric & classical guitars |
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John
Runcie -
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drums,
percussion, n’kali drum |
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+
special guest
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Mary
Browne
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voice
- 2, 6, 11
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at
the time
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Two
years after the Happy Landings epic Sky High album, the band
returned to record another album. As with Sky Highm the music
was digitally recorded live. The Rain Garden's Mary Browne
joined them for a session, adding her wonderfully expressive
voice on 3 tracks.
This was the last Happy Landings album - the band added a
sax player after this becoming the more mainstream Chris Conway
Quartet.
Chris's focus was beginning to move away from jazz as is reflected
in pieces like the ambient Flying Home and Inside
World and the Latin guitar piece Cactus Cafe..
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influences
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Aparis,
Markus & Simon Stockhausen, Rainer Bruninghaus, Eberhard
Weber, Arild Andersen, Bobo Stenson, Pat Metheny, ECM, Charles
Lloyd, Flora Purim
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technical
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recorded
digitally February-March 1994. Remastered July 2009
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hits
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You'll
Never Know, Think Blue Count Two
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CC's
fave track
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Flying
Home
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trivia
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You'll
Never Know, Think Blue, Count Two
and Flying Home were included in The Chris Conway
Band's CD Breathtaking which was
essentially a compilation of 3 Chris Conway albums.
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No
overdubbing was used on the album - ambient synth work
was pre-prepared on a sequencer and triggered live by
footswitch.
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Flying
Home was used in a film by Norwegian director Bjornar
Bjornson. It was also reworked thematically into the song
Always Flying Home on Chris's songs album Flying
Home.
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Sweet
World Cafe and Cactus Cafe were regular venues
Chris played at the time. He still regularly plays at
the Cactus Cafe - a Mexican Restaurant in Loughborough.
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Cactus
Cafe was recorded again
ina more extended band version on his Chris's Chocolate
Bossa CD.
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The
title Think Blue, Count Two is the title of a Cordwainer
Smith short story.
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Journey
Beyond Distance was reworked into a solo piano piece
Beyond Distance on his Sanctuary
piano album.
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The
Inside World II was a
variation on The Indaide World recorded by Chris with
Leaf Storm on their Dwellers in the Mirage album
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