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Fourth Wall

Dominic Miller

Label: Q-Rious Music
Released: 2006
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Tracks

Iguazu; One More Second; London Paris Cardiff; Meeting Point; Lyre's String; The Bridge; Lost and Found; Gabe; Three Souls; Count it Off.

Personnel

Album Description

I have mastered the album. I went there with my son Harley, Mike Lindup and Susan Gluth who is the German woman who has been shooting a documentary about me for the last two years. She spent the last few days staying with us. I was working to the last minute with Count it Off which has changed radically. It was great having Harley there with me because we are very close. Mike is a very close friend and also has very good ears for detail. I asked his advice a few times. There were occasions when I had to tune certain tracks up as little is 0.7 of a percent to match either the tune before or the one after any given track. I didn't use a tuner for this record so there were a few tuning issues. Mike has super sharp ears. The main determining factor with the order for me was the contrast in keys. The second was the tempos or feels. I have to listen to it one more time to approve the cut (as they say). This will be the last time I hear it for a few weeks. Then the studio will fed-ex it to the label in Germany and manufacturing will begin. I need to make a couple of small adjustments to the credits and off we go. So that's it. I am signing off now. I would like to thank you for making this journey with me. You have been wonderful companions. There have been a few ups and downs but the experience has... made me richer. I have learnt a lot about my strengths and weaknesses (especially the latter). I can still hear faults which I now accept will always be there. But I am not perfect, nor ever will be. I am just trying to improve as a musician and person. I believe I have made some progress. Some might disagree. I think it's a question of acting one's age, musically. If I were to try and reproduce anything I have done in the past it would be comparable to a middle aged guy trying on an old pair of jeans only to look ridiculous. I could never do an album like 'First Touch' again, nor would I ever want to. This album represents where I am in the universe now and my take on life and music today. Only time will tell if it is any good. No one has ever "got" any of my albums right away and most people have said "it's not as good as the last one". Those same people usually let me know they "get" it a year or two later. Then I make another album and the same happens again. This amuses me. I don't want you to get it right away. If you did I don't think it would say much about the music. It's like making friends. Some of my best friends were people I didn't understand from the get go. They made me want to know them. I tried to find meaning and a connection with them. We are friends for ever now. I sincerely hope you can find a connection and meaning in this album, 'Fourth Wall'.

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