Streetlights
Recording is underway for the new album. It has several songs from Where the Road Leads completely re-recorded with a full band and a whole bunch of new tunes as well.
Where the Road Leads
PM: “It’s an all-acoustic album: there is only one guitar, a few vocal effects and the occasional harmonica part. That’s it. The idea was to record an album that could be performed live without a band or backing track.”
PM: “The cover art is a photo I took at Muktinath Temple in Nepal. The temple gates face Dhaulagiri, one of the highest mountains in the world. I composed “Fence Sitter” right after that Annapurna trek, which is why the song opens with a temple bell and this photo became the cover art. The person in the picture is my dad.”
Where the Road Leads is available to stream or buy digital everywhere, and on CD from Amazon.
“Where the Road Leads (Radio Edit)” Single
“Where The Road Leads (Radio Edit)” includes the addition of drums and bass, but still adheres to the minimalist acoustic approach of the parent album. “Where The Road Leads (Radio Edit)” is available everywhere to stream or buy digital. A brand new, full band version is coming on Streetlights.
“Hockey Night”
PM: “There was an Anaheim playoff game years back that opened with Hells Bells by AC/DC; smoke, lights and that angry Duck logo: very cool. I’d been working on a riff that had a similar feel just a few weeks earlier, so decided to use it here.”
PM: “The guitar lead was built backwards from the hook at the very end of the solo. I came up with a modification to the standard Chuck Berry lick that I was planning to use for another song, but it fit so well at the end of the break, I laid it in and worked backwards from there. It’s mainly just standard pentatonic stuff, but I do like the double back scale just before the lick.”
PM: “The first verse presents visual imagery from that Anaheim game. In the second verse, I worked with the rougher side of the sport drawing imagery from popular horror and mafia movies (even a bit of West Side Story too). The final verse is action on the ice: there’s a few shot’s on goal, the puck gets bogged down in the corner and they break out through a trap.”
“Hockey Night” is available everywhere to stream or buy digital.
“Phatthaya Morning”
PM: “I was haunted by an old melody I wrote years ago, but never got around to recording. So I finally put it down in the studio and it leaves me alone now. I composed it on a misty, laid back Sunday morning in Phatthaya: perhaps the best time to be there. It was recorded it on a cold, snowy night in Canada: hence the picture.”
“Phatthaya Morning” is available everywhere to stream or buy digital.
Blast from the Past: “Crying Out”
The original Forever Endeavour single is long out of print, but an acoustic version of “Crying Out” is available on Where the Road Leads.
Forever Endeavour:
Paul Marshal: lead vocals and guitar
Mike Cole: guitar and vocals
Brendan Butt: keyboards and vocals
Ian Cole: bass
Jamie Santucci: drums