Undone By London - Rob Dougan - Misc. Sessions EP & Film (Recorded at Abbey Road Studios)
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- Опубликовано: 3 фев 2017
- Undone By London (for Lyrics see below) OUT NOW
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Misc. Sessions Rob Dougan - 5 track EP [inc.18 Minute Film + Digital Booklet] + with additional instrumental and orchestral mixes
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Written and produced By Rob Dougan
Recorded at Abbey Road Studio 2 by Jonathan Allen
Additional production and programming by Rupert Cross
Orchestrated and conducted by James Shearman
Arrangements by Rob Dougan and Rupert Cross
Piano by Rob Dougan
Backing vocals: Rob Dougan
Mixed by Nick Taylor at Air Edel
Mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios.
A film by Marc Swadel + Rob Dougan
Directed By Marc Swadel
Edited by Rohan Thomas
Filmed by Marc Swadel and additional crew
c/o Bluefin TV/ Anthony Leake
Recorded at Abbey Road Studio 2
Featuring tracks:
She's Leaving
Undone By London
Open Sore
Miscellaneous
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Lyrics:
Undone by London
Dreams are like children
Close your eyes and they’re not there.
You hear them laughing
On empty streets and garden squares.
We walked so slowly.
Then suddenly you cried, ‘I’ve given up.
‘I’ve been undone by London,
London and a lack of love.’
Dreams are like fireflies
Floating in a sapphire sky.
You try and catch them.
But find, when you do, their fire dies.
We walked so slowly.
You said, ‘I’ve finally realised enough’s enough.
I’ve been undone by London,
London and a lack of love.’
Dreams are like lullabies
A Mother’s voice when you were young.
A cherished photograph
Fading in the summer sun.
We’re raising hawks when we could be raising doves.
I’ve been undone by London,
London and a lack of love.
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Never deleting your music from my player since 2003. 💜
It is not music for the radio, it is music for the heart and soul. It is so sad that Beethoven, Mozart, Elgar and Chopin missed out on. An absolute gem! An impeccable and exemplary piece of art!
'We’re raising hawks when we could be raising doves'
This is apt for everything which is going on in this world.
Always love your work. Thank you.
+Abhishek Maheshwaram Abhishek, thanks. That was written some time ago. I don't like to take sides, or demonise, or getting involved in current things. The world's been dark and desperate for all time. I heard someone tonight say you just have to hold your small candle in the darkness and try to find good in yourself and all else. I heard that person talk of a project and say it was covered in prayer. It was Roma Downey the Northern Irish producer and actor. I hope these pieces are covered in prayer too. They've been around for many years with me. Have a good weekend and thank you, Rob.
Rob i believe you're one of walking wounded....and we make many mistakes...but in the midst of all our suffering...we create our greatest masterpieces because that same tenderness you have deep inside you that is also your greatest strength....so thanks Rob for putting music and melodies to our pain and lyrics to all that we have lost to life always remember you may suffer alot...you make suffer alone but it has never been in vain.thanks again for sharing your amazing gift of seeing into our ❤ hearts and making our lifes alittle sweeter.........slim goody😘
Hi Mr. Dougan.
I waited for your new music for 16 years. During that time I got married, divorced, married again, grew three children. Hahaha.
But seriously, many thanks for your songs. And for my delight. It's fantastiс. Soundtrack for London's pictures in my head )
I wish you the highest inspiration and a good harvest of grapes;)
As a Londoner with big dreams who just came home from a stressful day at a job I can hardly bare, this was a beautiful way to end the day. Thanks so much for creating this Rob. And thanks for bringing the world more music.
+Luke Douglas Thanks Luke. Sorry to hear that. I've been there. I used to work in a Jeans Store in the Kings Road. I got 100 a week. One day the very nice man who was in charge said, 'what are you doing here?' Earning some money I thought. I asked for a pay rise to 120 a week sometime after that to the central office. They didn't give it to me. And I felt so fed up I went out at lunch and didn't come back (it was not understaffed). I had to go through the back streets of Chelsea on that summers day so no one could catch me. Not a bad place to work Chelsea. Hope you have a better day or a day off tomorrow. Thanks again. Take care, Rob. - What's your plan?
Rob, we are so glad you made that choice too. I am not sure if you were musically inclined then or were producing music, but if you leaving that company resulted in everything you have produced to date, you surely made an amazing decision. The fact that you have fans who have been following you for almost a decade is a testament to your success! I highly doubt many would appreciate or remember you from working in a retail environment. I've been there, I know.
Your creativity opens hidden ways to my soul. Thank you
+Станіслав Кучеренко Thank you! I appreciate the kind comment, Rob.
You are one absurdly talented human being. The voice, lyrics, and the Orchestra is breathtaking.
Мы так долго ждали, что ты вернешься. Спасибо. Это, как всегда, великолепно!
I can feel the emotion in every bit of this song. I don't know what it is. Reminds me of simpler times I tear up after hearing this song every time. I love this so much
Your music has been a formative influence in my life in more ways than I realize, and even all these years later, the songs still have a power over me. Some, like The Drinking Song, have taken a more bittersweet tone after my own experiences, but your songs are something I find myself coming back to time and time again. I greatly look forward to seeing more from you in the near future, and I have full confidence that it will be as amazing as what we have now.
Your music simply reminds me of simpler times and often moves me to tears. You're a legend sir
Your music has much more impact than the importance you assign it. It kept me alive for a year, for that you have my eternal thanks.
Wow, I'm hearing some classic Bowie in your voice. Amazing.
Great to hear your voice again, still so much emotion in it! Thank you!
Lisa
From the original "Clubbed To Death" on an RDR collection LP to your latest work, everything is just amazing. Thank you
Ohhh this is wonderful. Thank you Rob! This is lovely!
My heart fluttered a bit when I saw that you had uploaded another video. Thanks for that! Beautiful work, as always!
+krissby Thank Krissby! That's better than your heart sunk. Have a great day. Very kind, Rob.
I listen to this daily. I wish I could like it more than once hell where's the love button!? You're a true legend Rob. Discovered your music thru my favorite movie the matrix and have been a fan of everything you do since.
So beautiful~Thank you so much for creating..
Your music has helped me throughout so many days
I'm so glad to see you're back !
So beautiful and so Rob Dougan. I've been hooked since I first heard Furious Angels and enjoy every minute spent listening to your music
+MadMoose72 Thanks MadMoose. Sorry I didn't get to answer last night. At some point I start to get very weary and feel asleep. Have a good Sunday! All the best, Rob.
I've had this on replay almost all day since I discovered it this morning. With each listen, tears release pent up feeling like spring rain, allowing truth in, and then I'm not alone, and I again feel a part of a mystery of beauty beyond conception, and I hear God again. I love so much of your music but I have two high rotation songs of yours. One And The Same, and now my new favorite Undone By London. Thank you Rob. ps - intentional nod to Bowie or unintentional? The second half certainly takes me to some very powerful places in the bones and sinew of my childhood.
that was beautiful....i'm very sleep deprived. and this is hitting me. im crying. thank you....
sometimes i forget how good it feeels to feel
While I really love Misc. Sessions as a whole, "Open Sore" and "Undone by London" got to be my favourite pieces, also striking a personal chord. I have left London before I could potentially get undone by it, lately I miss it a lot and feel a bit of an absurd itch to go back and test myself again.
Either way, I might regret never giving it another go, or might crash against my own aspirations if I do - which this song tends to remind me about - yet I do enjoy the bitter-sweet feeling it evokes. A bit like strolling along the Thames bank on one of the evenings before Christmas - the wind from the river gives me slight shivers but I can't stop enjoying the illuminated view.
Anyway, hope London is treating you well, Rob.
There´s something curious in you robert every time i listen your work fills me with hope and resilience, hugs from this far away country. Bogota Colombia
I remember hearing Furious Angel's and thinking, WOW, it can't get any better than this, then I put in the Instrumental CD and again was amazed! Rob D you are the man, loved your music ever since 14, going on 28 now and I am so happy to hear some of your new work. That was quite the hiatus you went on, glad you're back. Keep on keeping on man.
Thank you so much for all of your music, and Undone by London in particular. I dreamed of living and working in London throughout my childhood. I eventually achieved it, and then it completely destroyed me in a very short space of time. This is both sad for me to listen to, but also reaffirms that I made the right decision to leave. Thank you so much for creating it.
I listen to your music almost every day and have done for many years. You are incredibly talented. Thank you.
+Honourless Weasel thank you.co remember you said that. These days I don't think it matters where you are in terms of being in a larger city with the internet. People come to London and sometimes they push themselves to hard and are hurt. I remember thinking one day when I walked out of the door and checked I had the keys, "if I lose these keys I have no one I know and nowhere to go". My career plan in those days was to get out of the shop and buy an exercise book to writing in, and some bread and cheese each day, and to live in a park while I tried to write something. That was my glimmer of hope. Sometime I feel I going back to that these days and that will be the future. All the best, Rob.
I have no words. This is perfection. Pure art.
Amazing I believe it's more than just work, it's your life put in accords and lyrics, please stay with us as long as you can, you're a very talented human, a great hug for you from Guatemala.
Rob, thanks for finally bringing your musical perspective "back" after all these years and still finding the perfect words and tone to dig deep into heart and stomach. ubl is the one song or your ep that lets strength and hope find their way back to life in the darker days, alt least for me. looking forward for more on this and will support your work as good as possible. thanks for providing relief though your words, voice and music. svn
+gluekarsz thank you. Oddly, a lot of Undone by London was written in a fairly simple hotel room in Paris over a few days. I was coming back from the south after a quick trip to London. I didn't have a keyboard so the entire middle section I entered the harmonies with a computer pencil without really knowing what they were.
The main rythmn of this section is just me tapped by on the laptop speaker.
There a book by George Orwell called Down and Out in London and Paris.
I wasn't down and out at the time. But very alone for a few days while I worked out this piece. Not seeing anyone and going into a trance for the whole day until night while working all the time is a strange sensation of feeling you might be lost with the piece or going a bit mad.
Hope all is well and stays well. Thanks again! Take care, Rob.
I liked your older music, but this new stuff is great! I'm glad you're creating music again.
absolutly love this Rob, the way you work your songs ginvin' them the substance and the feature that only you have the secret. I respect a lot the identity you put in your art. I'm a fan of you for many years now and I have to admit that listen to your songs puts me, every-single-time, in a very melancholic mood... unfortunatly it reminds me every details of my past life where I used to have the chance to have, by my side, the love of my life, In fact, in some ways, your music takes me down to the sad and murky reality of my life since She left me : I become almost as "successful" as I wanted to be, in so many levels, but I lost the only human who knew me, really, for what I am in the deepest part of my soul and for, whom, I would do everything. 6 years since I feel I'm just a broken soul who lost what's important and there's no one single day I don't think of her, Cécile.
So Thank you so much Rob because in the weirdest way you help me to remember I was happy and peaceful in the deepest places of my heart.
A Powerful and emotional composition, beautiful work Rob, Just wish i could see your face directly delivering those powerful vocals🥰
Awesome! Thanks again Rob! Your the man!
Oddly Australia.... Rob Dougan wrote a wonderful soundtrack for someone over two decades. I will always be grateful. One and the same.
Sitting on my patio watching the sun set and drinking a bottle of 2012 La Peira this evening. A love of mine bought it for me and I always assumed it would be a celebratory occasion, but now she’s gone and this song somehow seems to perfectly describe how I’m feeling. It’s fascinating how I return time and again to your music to help me through the darker times in my life. I hope all is well, Rob. Cheers
Thank you for all songs!
+Vorname Nachname Many thanks, Vorname. Thanks for listening, R.
Very beautiful song , very magnificent
Perfect! I love all of your songs. Thanks for sharing.
+Cooler thank you, Cooler. More to come I do hope. Take care, Rob.
Never fully gave up did we?😊 Most of those encountered. The distaff side. Men! Step forward but carefully. 😮
Just ice matters we are all needed there.
thanks for your response Rob it met so much to me hearing from my fav composer....undone by london will always hold a very special place in my heart....much happiness and success to you you've earned it....your friend slim goody
+slim goody Thanks, Slim! Wishing you all the best too! R.
AMAZING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TEARS COMING DOWN MY FACE ROB!! Just amazing..
Thank you for sharing the videos, Rob. Nicely done. Visited your site and bought the albums. Looking forward for more to come. Take care!
Such wonderful music.
+DjembeDjam thank you, Djembe. That's very kind of you. Wishing you all the best. Take care, Rob.
April 2019 - nice to listen to Rob on RUclips whilst enjoying good company, wine, and cheese. I have a new audience for his music and we're just on the second track.
When you were gone for that good while, I really tried to find someone out there that produced music even barely resembling the same style as yours. I'm glad you're back Mr. Dougan, cause there is no one out there that can instill this certain way I feel after listening to a song of yours. This new video is beautiful too, love seeing the what the orchestra contributes! .
+Johnathan Granados Thank you, Johnathan. That's greatly appreciated. Wishing you all the very best, Rob.
Rob you are such an amazing composer and artist your music and lyrics are incredible everytime i think i know what to expect from you...you take me to a whole new level but as usual there is always a gentleness.... beauty and loneliness.....and almost unfulfilled yearning in the very depths of who you truly are stay strong Rob know your fans love you...i love you⭐ you....you have an amazing gift always share it
+slim goody thank you. I hoped that the words to these songs would be good. Thanks too for the comments.
As I mentioned about the words you use above in a comment below, I think two books The Sound of the Mountain and Snow Country must have been in my mind in the background and the great film Tokyo Story as well.
You no doubt can find (or buy/rent) a version with better subtitles but Tokyo Story is here and should be watched:
ruclips.net/video/pCh4WRDVzyY/видео.html
Thanks again, Rob.
I've never understood how you're not more famous.
You deserve far more recognition than you receive. Especially for "The Return" and "A Drawing-down of Blinds"
+unknowna1 Thanks! Who'd want to be more famous? In my view, I don't deserve anything more than a quick clip to the back of the head ("Use every man after his desert, and who should ’scape whipping?" - Hamlet m.sparknotes.com/nfs/hamlet/page_126.html ). I'd like to be able to continue to do more. But am grateful for everything and to have had a chance to live and do something so far. But it's a very nice thought. Have a great weekend! Thanks again! Rob.
Ha, certainly!
I just hope I have the privileged to continue hearing more of your work. I hope you know how highly regarded you are by some of us (as you can see by some of the comments). Keep it up and all the best.
Perfect!!! Your music inspires me, I'm listening to all your music every day. Thanks Rob for everything. Good luck! 👏👏👏
+Rafiga Mustafazada - Rafiga, I'm very happy to hear that. Delighted you listen to it. Where are you? Hope all's well and stays well! All the best, Rob.
Rob Dougan Official Thanks a lot, Rob! I'm writing different stories, but I'm not a professional writer, just love writing, it makes me happy. Your music helps me think about my mysterious and dangerous female character 😄 and helps discover her everyday too. You're amazing and keep going like this 😊
This really hits the emotions hard, I'm a mess! I'm glad your back!
+designs on reality Sorry about that. Keep up the good work. Love your flying penguin logo/intro. Very happy to say hello here. Have a good evening. Rob.
Herschel Walker's favourite song opening perhaps? Allegedly.
Dreams are like children, close your eyes and they're not there
You hear them laughing on empty streets and garden squares
We walk so slowly, then suddenly I cried "I've given up! I've given up!"
I've been undone by London, London and a lack of love
Rob Dougan. #remember the mothers fathers and children?
Now I cross my heart and expect to die. No unknown offspring but suit yourself.
Magnific sounds!
I like how you let her rip with the vocals in this, bit like I'm Not Driving Anymore. Faaaading in the summer sun gets me every time.
Thank you Manboyno5. I thought that too. Working on the new EP. It's so close. But so not done. Still there are bigger problems in the world. Thanks again, R.
Rob, what a sensual, evoking piece! Keep on writing, please, for your own sake and ours :) Your music soothes the soul!
Truly incredible
He's truely back!
Dreams are like children
Close your eyes and they're not there.
You hear them laughing
On empty streets and garden squares.
We walked so slowly.
Then suddenly you cried, 'I've given up.
I've been undone by London,
London and a lack of love.'
Dreams are like fireflies
Floating in a saphire sky.
You try and catch them.
But find, when you do, their fire dies.
We walked so slowly.
You said, 'I've finally realised enough's enough.
I've been undone by London,
London and a lack of love.'
It could be so easy
It could be so easy
It could be so easy
Work it out, just work it out
It could be so easy
It should be so easy
Dreams are like lullabies
A Mother's voice when you were young.
A cherished photograph
Fading in the summer sun.
We're raising hawks when we could be raising doves.
I've been undone by London,
London and a lack of love.
I am all undone.
Almost recorded a cover of this last night (with your blessing) got distracted, but feel very lucky to be able to share this with friends and acquaintances who haven't heard/seen the EP. UbL is my favourite from this release, and one that can be both devastating and beautiful all at once (if you let yourself get wrapped up in it, especially with recent events in my hometown), "One and the same" is a beautiful complement to this. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Keep up the amazing work, I look forward to any future releases, EP's, Albums, Kickstarter with excitement and support etc.
+Sabellicus2007 - Thanks. You should. It's best not to get too wrapped up in music - or the goings on of a home town! I seem to remember trying to record this as fairly hard - or perhaps I was just worried so it seemed so. Anyway, I hope it's easier for you. Thanks again and all the best, Rob.
@@RobDouganOfficial It only took a year but I got around to it, I've promised myself not to let another pass before I commit to performing some more covers of songs that have given me so much joy (several of yours, Peter Gabriel's etc.).
Thanks again for the encouragement, inspiration and kind words (from Instagram: @twinvader)
Wow..... London and a lack of love...... Magnifico!
Wow! This is actually better than so many other artists so called song writers and composers.
Blimey, this was pretty moving. Great job
This is absolutely amazing! A breath of fresh air. The amount of effort that went into this really deserves more recognition! Also, greetings from London....)) This city is in fact very capable of depriving one of love...
+BoilingJD Thanks! London is a good place - but many people like me come here perhaps to test themselves or escape or disappear. Which can go terribly wrong quickly or slowly. Or end up just great. Thanks for listening, all the best, Rob.
Rob Dougan a real messenger of Art I was 16 when I heard your climbed to death then fell into your world your words and music followed here even it lead me to find out a lot of knowing myself and secrets of myself love from Palestine keep going and let the message reach the unreached
Such an incredible song, you really are a fantastic lyricist
God bless you
Perfect... I love your art Rob from Spain. Tu arte es maravilloso.
+Scorpio Thanks, Scorpio. All the best from here. Tu bondad es apreciada (is that right?). All the best, Rob.
Atravez de la noche llegan Grandes mensajes
Just sublime!
+Angel A. Martinez A. Thanks, Angel. Pleased you heard it, R.
For me it is a pleasure to listen to your music, your art ... you are a great artist!!
Rob, you, sir, are amazing. Also I think you'd be a great person to have a drink with.
Sometimes I wonder what you have gone through to make so melancholic music (Which is definetly not my business ). And would just give you a hug (sounds really creepy) keep this amazing work up it is just beautiful and covers so much emotion you can connect to. Greetings from Germany
Masterpiece.
+Cesar Hailton Costa Gonçalves Cesar Thank you. Your very kind! All the best, Rob
Perfectly. Thank you.)
Mother of God! Its genius!
perfect again!
thank you)
+Twit Steam Спасибо! And thanks for the other kind comment! R
Rob Dougan Official ,wow, You are answer, it's very unusual for me, You make me happy)
(sorry for my English)
I have read long time ago, on wiki, that You have inspired from Yukio Mishima and Yasunari Kawabata books (for CTD). And, it was the first time, when I decided to read book myself, because You have read it! First book for me was confessions of a mask, I have read it, and I felt love to read a books!, I found out - "What is it book". It was in 15, now I almost 17, and now, I am continue to read. Thank You again.
All feels, that I feel when i am listening Your music - I can't explain it, why those feels so close for me.I want to tell You a lot, because, I know that you will understeand me.
Hard to tell something, and do not to tell a lot.
This is so good
Love your work.
+Rorschach the Cat thanks! Rob.
Takes me back in time, then brings back, dizzling.
Todo mi reconocimiento, soy gran admirador saludos desde México
очень чувственная музыка....cool !!! I love london)
I will never get tired of telling you how amazing is your work and your soul!!! so full of a lot of feelings!!!! some day I hope to have the honor of meeting you and share some music and learn from you!!! greetings from Bolivia
+Adriana Rojas Thanks Adriana. It was a bit of a challenge at times to record this EP at times as I hadn't recorded songs for a while. But we really had a very good team of people who are brilliant. Greetings from London on a fairly cold evening. Hope all's well in Bolivia, Rob.
Very expressive, you have to respect that.
+Morzy thank you Morzy. Very kind, R.
Beautiful.
+wayfarerpg thank you. I do hope so in some way...have a good evening, Rob.
Thanks. I wish you the same.
I LOVE YOU ROB DOUGAN!!!
+SALEHA_707 I LOVE YOU SALEHA! Thanks for listening. All the best, R.
WOW YOU REPLIED!!! Thanks :D
dat voice
Rob I feel that I’ve been undone by Doncaster.
I can only sit here and silently nod.
thanks
+42ndnumber Thank you too. Take care, Rob. ☘️
Love this arrangement Rob, thanks for posting. How was your January? Any updates for us?
+Gareth Stringer Hello Gareth. It was alright, thanks! How was yours? Apparent the correct response to this question (how was?) is the word: unbelievable. Which covers all. I've got a great video (I hope) for a kickstarter campaign involving the album which I'll share shortly as I'd love to get thoughts. Just to take it to the end. So any assistance or suggestions with that would be great fully received and very interesting. Hope you're well. I see interview has been a bit lost in the post. Thanks! Rob.
Rob Dougan Official Great news, look forward to seeing that, and of course the campaign. January was pretty good thanks, mustn't complain. I think the interview did pretty well, but probably deserves another push!
I have loads of thoughts about that, but it's almost unreal to have you even bother listening to them - to me, it's just - wow
Just letting people know that these kinds of productions are not cheap, easy, or simple to create. Please support Rob by purchasing his EPs, previous albums, and the upcoming one. It will be the most rewarding amount of money you've spent for such a small price. You also get the satisfaction of knowing you directly helped Rob.
Rob its unique you should be show up often
I love how you create differents feelings with your songs. Sometimes it's epic, sometimes it's sad, sometimes it's classy ... It's cool because we don't have the sensation that you repeat yourself again and again. That's what I love in Furious Angel btw.
I like the way that you put your voice highlight in this EP unlike the first EP it's only instrumentals songs, so it's cool because I love those EP but for differents reasons !!
I love this EP because your voice it's amazing, your text are touching and your "flow" is great.
And I love the previous album because the music is more "theatral" and very evocative.
So that's a part of my opinion about your works, I love your music so much, then so continue ;)
+auré manza Thank you, Auré.
First thing first, this next album (god willing) will be more theatrical by a million miles than the last. At least I think so.
But as you mention, I'm just trying to take the first steps (with instrumental and songs) with these two EPs.
Anyway, this is something I'm very happy to discuss along the way. Have a great night. All the best, R.
Yes, when I listen the second EP for the first time I understood that you was making "musical experiences", the first time with the orchestral music and the second time with your voice.
And it's very cool to see/to hear how you succesfully accomplish those exercices ^^ (Hum, sorry for this sentence, it's not well writen but English is sometimes a hard language !).
I have a last question, and after I shall stop annoying you with my post, In you futur album, do you will put some electronic/trip hop beats (like the Furious Angel album with songs like Clubbed to Death or Left Me For Dead) or you will stay on the "orchestral way" of your EP.
Because, there is no (or less like "The Return") electronic music on the both EP.
So to me it's a real pleasur to speak with you about your music, and if you open a kickstarter I will help for sure haha !
🌹
+San Almeida 🙏
Olağanüstü... yıllardır.
Fire dies, fire dies.
Hi Rob,
My question is, will "The Return" in the featured album?
+Nebuch Hi Nebuch. Yes. I think so. In a different form. What do you think? Rob.
I think it's enough to hold its name ^_^
Another question; is there will be a instrumantal disc or segment in the featured album?
@@Nebuch gramer öğren nebuk xd
Rob, how does it feel to walk around Abbey Road Studios knowing you're walking in the footsteps of all those who were great, no, those who were great before you? I give a warm welcome to the family to Undone by London: 'A Mother’s voice when you were young.' Thanks for going straight to the heart, again.
+AgentOrange thanks.
Various feelings. Partly it feels odd. Most things (that you mean above) where recorded there when it was just a normal place. I'm used to recording on just a normal place where you don't think too much about it. Or not even in a studio at all sometimes. So you feel a bit self-conscious. But after that it has a very nice atmosphere, very nice and talented people, and a very nice canteen area. We recorded in studio 2 which is obviously quite famous. But as we had so much to do that it just became a very nice studio to get a lot of work done in. Jonathan Allen the recording engineer was great and the sound (reverb) of that room is great.
A mother's voice when you were young - is one of my favourite likes. I wrote it a long time ago before it had as much meaning to me as now.
I suppose this song is about thinks you can't get back.
It's best to appreciate them before they are gone. Wishing you every good thing. All the best, Rob.
Hi Rob =)
Kind of you to take some time to write a full answer - I really appreciate that. Of course it was just a normal place, but there's something about places where great things happened - I'd say it's almost sacred ground. You just go to work so in the moment it's a workspace, that I understand. Perhaps afterwards or if you have time to reflect (after a marathon of recording and editing) you must've felt really complete (or empty, depending on the piece).
If you have another idea for a full album - would you go for one that would tell a story as a whole, a concept album? There was something about Furious Angels: disappointment, failures, broken love, bitterness - yet I sense that there was more that you were trying to say but didn't, or couldn't. Yes, even after spilling so much emotions in the lyrics and opening up so much I sense that after all these years you still have meaningful things to tell and write.
I'm just very glad and honoured to have you sort of 'come back', dropping surprise after surprise here - yes, I'll be there for the kickstarter.
(Nice detail: through the years I've bought 7 copies of Furious Angels, just to give them to the people that were interested after I played the album - so don't worry, we haven't forgotten about you at all!)
Again, thanks - Leslie (29 y/o dude from The Netherlands hehe)
What can be better than Saturday winter night with Rob s another musical masterpiece!Thank u once again dear Mr. Dougan!I hope that U r doing Great Sir :) By the way i really wonder what s your favorite book & film of all time?!Not going to ask the same Q about Music (Artist/Composition) cause that*d be a tough one for u(i think so)...Շնորհակալություն!
+Vahram Kushchiyan Vahram, it's good to hear from you. Thanks for the kind words. I think my favourite book is The Leopard by
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. It's easier to read if you watch the very good film by Visconti first. One of my favourite films is The Mission. The screenplay is by Robert Bolt. I, of course, like famous films like David Lean's Bridge over the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia. I like Ozu's Tokyo Story. In fact that is my favourite. By a long way. It's hard to have favourites. But that's probably mine. I thought the Tree of Life by Terrence Malick one of the most amazing films I've ever seen. I liked Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals from last year. I think it will be the defining film of our time (and the last 50 years in the west).
I love Kiarostamis’ ‘Where Is the Friend’s Home and other films around the time. Great films by Kurosawa.
I loved Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum many years ago. Not one Less (by the same) is one of my favourite films by him.
I like reading Lawrence Osborne.
Old man and the Sea by Hemingway, The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (but not the tacky films made of it).
I used to love reading Kazuo Ishiguro. And no doubt will again.
I love the books of Yasunari Kawabata like the Sound of the Mountain (my favourite) and Snow Country (my other).
Also lot of English, American, Australian authors.
In terms of this EP (you made me think of it) the one's that now appear to have been in the background when and before making it are
Ozu's Tokyo Story film and the books The Sound of the Mountain and Snow Country by Kawabata.
Tokyo Story is here: ruclips.net/video/pCh4WRDVzyY/видео.html
You need to switch the substitles on. It prob. better to buy it with proper subtitles. And don't watch it too late as it's not a film to watch first when you tired.
Do tell me yours (books - films). Even if they are very different. I need to know more.
Take care. All the best, Rob.
WOW!what a list!was expecting something great, but your list was just amazing...i have to be honest-i haven t seen and read nearly the half of what u have mentioned YET:)even if u mentioned only Malick,Nocturnal Animals and The Great Gatsby it would be great already!i don t like to go to the cinema i do prefer watching good movies in complete (vacuum) when i am alone,but i went and watched Nocturnal Animals cause i had a feeling that it would be an amazing piece and i was not wrong at all! i feel like i was a passenger while having a ride in a race car like McLaren or Ferrari and some F1 pilot was piloting it,with all the hard accelerations and breaking.There s just so many thoughts and feelings about this masterpiece so i just can t tell about all of them,but i am sure that u will understand!
My turn-and that s a difficult one because i really do Love good films,music & books since i remember myself...and now i just can t count how many of them are the best for me,i think that u understand that it is very individual for every person because it is connected with so many thoughts and feelings that person is experiencing while reading or watching smt. so i hope that it won t be funny if i say that the book i am the most connected with is The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The film-Great Expectations by Alfonso Cuaron based on Charles Dickens tale...Music-is one big part of my life,every single day in my life stars and ends with music,every kind of it i mean like from Chopin and all the way to The Prodigy))Even now while writing this to u and i don t even know if u will or won t read this,at 4-30 in the morning i ve already listened for several great musical pieces by Radiohead mostly tracks from Black Mirror TV Series may be u haven t seen but it is not bad at all,then Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross s work from good one too and now i am listening to Bjork-i ve seen it all from Dancer in the Dark, u love her or hate her it is just simple like that but i like her and especially this song is really beautiful one...And of course couple of your tracks too, like every single day,it s like some kind of a ritual))but if to be completely honest and serious-in music my biggest and greatest connection is with you and your music,and i need maybe i few hours to explain why it is so but it s a big huge fact!so for me your music is the best for already like 15 years and it surely will be the best for me until the end of times~~~
P.S. really hope that u will have time to read all of this))and i just want to say that i am really sorry for my /not so great/ english as u might noticed already,it is because i haven t spoken in english with anybody for maybe 7-8 years...once again thank u for your Great reply!
Wonder if they'll release these songs on cassette tapes, that'll be neat rob, modern yet oldschool
Thank you so much for continuing to make music. This sounds as if it was sung from a very deep, personal space and full of special meaning. Did you draw from personal experience, perhaps while working in London?
Eternal gratitude,
Erin
+bluelblock Thanks Erin. It's lovely to see you here and I loved the picture of your framed print. I've made a "podcast" talk about this song and that just for you. But it's not quite finished and ready o post. I suppose it is about personal experience then (and now) and people I knew. Have a good weekend, Rob.
Looking forward to it! :)
64 thousand views, what a shame! This reality is so broken, people running after wrong things.
Hello Rob! I love your new album, absolutely fantastic! I have a question, how did you get into the industry? I am an aspiring artist and soon I will be learning how to read music and play an instrument, how did you end up in the position that you are in now?
+ARCHANGEL thank you. It's still an EP - album to come. I got into it (on the basis there's still an industry and I in it?) by writing some songs with a fellow called Rollo Armstrong. A very charming fellow and very good at writing words. Very organised in his way and good at making things happen too.
That's great your learning to read music. It means you can learn a lot especially if you in the end can sight read works by other people. I can't do that. Yet.
How did you end up in the position that your in now? you ask.
The unfortunate position of being destitute? Bad luck? Bad judgment? I'm joking - but those where my initial thoughts after reading that question.
I suppose you mean being able to record music sometimes. OK. 1. Working with other people in the beginning like Rollo above - so as a team 2. Releasing my own material to record shops for a time which lead to a single release with Mowax and then others. 3. Working with smaller independent labels which lead to a release through a bigger one 4. Just trying to write an album that meant something to me and didn't stick to the formula expected (and requested). Hope that helps. Do well. All the best, Rob.
***** That helps a lot thank you!
Hi Rob! I am really enjoying these pieces. How is your creative process? Do you have a general idea and start writing. Is it a feeling that drives you and then you give it form? Do you write on a daily basis. Do you write on the spot? Thanks.
+Violeta Blue Thanks Violeta. I never have ideas. At the beginning. Just words come to mind. Or Something is head or read. Maybe then the title arrives. Then the story. And that pretty much takes over. Thinks come to mind on a daily basis and I write them down. Have a good Sunday. Thanks again, Rob.