Where do we go from here? UP: The Sound Part 5 - The Magic

'Where do we go from here? UP' is not only a document of a time period presented to you real and in a way that is raw but it also touches upon the fact that there are things within the room or within our lives that we don't see or hear and we can't always capture or document.

This is duality of 'Where do we go from here? UP'.

Because the songs are a narrative then the vocal is what leads the moment, or perhaps present the moment to you the listener and within in that itself it demanded that I did not mix the band parts too action packed or too loud. It is much more subtle and gentle than you would think, very quiet and very still no "big" bass or drum moments - we served these songs gently and connected to a very beautiful thing, that In a lot of respects sounds totally different to any record that I have ever heard.

These performances are not ashamed to be rough, to be raw, to be quiet and to even be underplayed sometimes. They are unashamed of what they are and as I said earlier as a producer I have had to raise my bar to a much more mature level and let go of thinking that everything has to blow away the listener in volume or be "Action packed". There is beauty in the stillness.

However what was there, sometimes within and sometimes around these performances was the Magic. The moments that were put on straight after the live take to quickly try and capture what ever was in the room with us that we could not hear.

I originally thought that this extra layer would feel more cartoon like, more Disney esque but in actuality and after much work they simply come across better by being treated more real and more like spirits or destiny or actual "Soul - Feelings" that too have actually been captured on tape.

So for instance there are many combinations though out the album that represent the difference between the "live band" take and the "Magic".

All of this surrounds the narrator as he tells you his tale of reconnecting with magic. In unfolds much like a story book and the "Magic" parts can be as subtle as a Guitar part that appears to be floating above the narrator symbolizing a future event - to a much more obvious, Harp and violin part that is coming from some fare off land and into the room.

The difference being that instead of these "Magic" parts tuning in from some nether world it is as if they ARE actually there in the room with the narrator as he tells you the story.