MAGNESIUM
AN ALBUM BY DAVID CLAYTON
PT The Magnesium, album is very, very different
from the Simply Red albums, and although the
musicians always go to one project and then
another.
The piano has always been my primary instrument, DC You bet! This album was a product of having
and I wanted to try to put my feelings over on my the time to make it, and having been influenced by
own in this instance, apart from using the many friends and musicians. I could not keep the
saxophone on the final track. This shows the way music inside! I had to record it and thankfully, I did.
for the next album, which I hope will have many ‘Simply Red’ was taking time off, so I decided that
friends on it, in contrast to this album. this was the right time to follow a dream for a
PT Do you miss playing with Simply Red? while.
DC. Yes, But we have just made a new album, PT Back to your album Magnesium, are you
and are hopefully considering a tour perhaps .So it accompanied by more musicians apart from Ian
is a new beginning in some way. I would so so love Kirkham? Or did you perform the whole album?
to tour Mexico again as I really love the people I DC Apart from Ian Kirkham (Simply Red) on
have met there. They are kind and thoughtful and Sherbet, it is all my own work. It was always my
they have really appreciated the band ‘Simply Red’ intention to do an intimate and calming album
for many years. I also hope that in some way I can with my first instrument which is the piano! I also
get my album to them too. I am trying to get played a few electronics too, where I felt it was
distribution soon in South America. However, they necessary. The only way I felt that I could just flow
can obtain it on iTunes in Mexico. But for me the with my emotions, I suppose was with the piano
vinyl album has the best quality of sound. and a recording device.
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