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Valley Forge featuring Kamahl - Wayfaring Stranger

from Artificial Heart by Valley Forge

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I'd known Kamahl for many years but had never considered collaborating musically until four years ago. I asked him to think of the saddest song he could recall from his vast repertoire of numbers amassed over a lifelong career as an entertainer. I stumbled upon an old version of 'Wayfaring Stranger' by Danny Darrow - someone I'd never heard of but something about that track's simplicity and emotional gutpunch just drew me to it. I asked Kamahl if he knew it, and luckily he did. Anyway - I turned up at his house with a laptop and a mike and he proceeded to record the vocals, no clicktrack, no piano for pitch - just freeform. We did a few takes and I got him to do some wailing and backing vocal snippets and then we parted ways for several years. During those years I slowly built the track, dropping Kamahl's bits and pieces in where I thought they should go, constructing a swampy, gothic-deep-south from within which those snippets of brilliance might shine. The end result is part Massive Attack, part Depeche Mode, part Vangelis but all emotion. I consider it the Magnum Opus of the album.

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from Artificial Heart, released August 23, 2011
Traditional arr. J. Wingrove

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The Clan Analogue collective was started in Sydney, Australia, in 1992 by a small group of people who were interested and active in electronic sound. Largely fuelled by the sore lack of live venues in Australia for electronic music and a lack of options for releasing recorded material, Clan Analogue was born out of necessity. ... more

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