Calmwaters

We've written several songs about water over the years. In 2001, we had Cloudburst, then on our last album there was Turn the Tide, and now Calmwaters. I suspect it's because I'm a geographer at heart, and like colouring in maps of oxbow lakes, and that sort of thing. And the National Geographic is a particularly good magazine.

So this brings us to Calmwaters: a song about taking life gently, and drifting on the ocean waves... No hidden messages - even if you play it backwards (you may also find that this makes it sound better, too). No profound psychobabble - even if you play it backwards. Nothing like that. Just a gentle and drifting tribute to being lazy. Obviously X-Press 2 did something similar and rather better a few years ago, but I'm not sure that's a problem.

In a way, this song is the exact opposite of Turn the Tide, but with all the same watery references, just to hammer the message home. Well, recycling is good, you see?

Simon did most of the production on this one, using drum samples from an old drum machine. We then went back later on, and added loads of reverb and flanging to the drum sounds, to beef them up a bit. And then we went back again, and took all the sound effects off again.

Proof, if it were needed, that the path to the truth is a long and windy one.

That's windy as in bendy, not as in gusty. Or as in flatulent. Although it might have been that too...