This is deeply personal, it's really about being at the point I am at, at the age I am and still having new beginnings. click here to listen


Wild as Can Be

Funnily enough, started out much more rocky as Carmelo's musical roots are more rock orientated than this album but as it was very lightweight in that form and as the musical project progressed we (kind of) set the idea against a much more interesting and original backdrop and so the song developed from there. It's a simple basic song but I hope it has some spiritual impact.


One and Only Love

This is actually the first song we wrote together about four years ago, although it sounded much more folky when we wrote it, with a much more structured melody. It's not actually a song about man-woman relationship, the lyric came out of my relationship with my parents funnily enough, although it does sound like an unrequited love song. It's actually developed a lot from the original writing, the vocals are much more loose now, the melodies aren't so strict.

Reunion

This is one of the most recent songs, again I think it came out of a groove that Carmelo had on guitar and we had developed it from there. It has an optimism that a lot of songs have on the album, there is a sense of humour about the track which I'm really happy about.

Heal Me Now

Again, it's the same kind of scenario as 'Wild As Can Be', in that it was written in a more "pop form" and developed really by the kind of instrumentation we've used. Again, the lyrics are basic but very personal to me and I hope the song touches other people in it's simplicity.

I've Run Dry

It's a song I wrote, in fact the last song I think I'll ever write about a boyfriend I had many years ago called Davey Johnstone, who works with Elton John. Carmelo had come up with this melody which we really like and had kind of a Ry Cooder feeling about it, a quite American sounding song. I was searching for an emotional lyric to go with it and I had this vision of this house I rented in LA after we broke up with just carpets and curtains and no furniture - the lyric came out of that! click here to listen


Amen and Goodbye

Again, guitar groove from Carmelo which had a kind of heavy bluesey feeling. When I was approaching the lyric I though this is an opportunity not to write a love song which is what I've usually done in the past and write something more original for me. So I searched my mind for some other subject matter and it ended up being about false prophets.

Under The Night Sky

The melody came first and the lyric is based on mother and daughter relationships which is the chorus line, (which is in Hindi), comes in. I wrote it thinking about my best friend Jenny and my sister who both had daughters.

Salty Water

It's a bit of fun on the album, it's about liberation and freedom - the perfect holiday song! It's also partly about me indentifying with being Piscean, although I don't take astrology too seriously, but I am a water sign and like a lot of people, find being by the water is very soothing. So it's really about being liberated by the sea.

Colour Me Blue

It was much more poppy originally, but we still felt it had a place on the album because of the laid-back rhythm that none of the other songs have and coming where it does on the album, it had an unusual character. It's about feeling comfortable with you identity whatever. I'm one of those people who in the past had a tendancy to want to please everybody and be approved of by everybody, so this song is a statement that says, whatever you think, I'm OK!

'til We Meet Again

This is one of my favourite tracks on the album, it's the song that we wrote and performed first on tour and it was the first indication of what kind of studio album we would go on to make. It has a lot of atmosphere, is very instrumentally based and I pretty much wrote the song on the spot, kind of ad libed along with the music and it kind of came out of nowhere. It's really about friendship.

Wake Me From This Sleep

We thought this song had huge potential melodically and had a quality of directness as far as people hearing it straight away. It's a very emotional song, had an emotional quality about it melodically and I really struggled to write this lyric! In fact we ended up trying it without lyrics and then in sandscript - each and every way before settling in to what we have now. The title comes from my friend, and manager, Steve Brown who told us his father had written a personal autobiography for his family entitled "Where Rivers Meet", a sentence which seemed to sum up the real essence of our album. So with his permission, we called the album "Where Rivers Meet".