![]() (We are great friends, but have a habit of losing touch.) My first marriage was ending, and so I had more time to devote to things like music than I’d had for 19 years. Lorenzo: I met our original bass player, Sean Godfrey, quite by chance. Tell us about your 2013 reunion and how you got back in touch. Lorenzo: More a certain feeling, ambience, atmosphere… whatever you want to call it. This bodes well for our next project, but more of that later. As with most things I have accomplished, I felt about ready to begin by the time I finished. Other than learning about the drum recording and bass playing, I also spent a lot of time on YouTube with MusicTechHelpGuy, the wizard of Logic Pro X. It seemed easier for me to buy a bass and learn to play that than try and explain to Lorenzo how to play those lines, especially since we communicated mostly via email and Facebook Messenger. I’d not played bass before, but I had bass lines in my head. Actually, I had a lot to learn through the process of creating my parts for the album. It was a steep learning curve for me because although I’d mic’d drums for live performances I’d never recorded with an acoustic kit before. ![]() That was where I recorded the drums and percussion. I was fortunate to have the use of a friend’s house while he was working abroad. We put the album together by sending sound files back and forth across the net.ĭave: Lorenzo sent me his draft tracks back in 2019, and we sent the album off to be mastered in late 2020. He put forward three songs which were written to be performed without drums, hence the irony that the songs written by the drummer are drum-less. Then COVID struck, and the friend had to curtail his travels, so Dave had to pack up his drum kit. Hence his initial offer to play the drums on my songs. Dave was looking after a friend’s house in the country while the friend was away, and was able to play his drums there without disturbing anyone. We worked on the album for several months. They each have wide tastes in music, and unlike so many ‘classicals’, they’re capable of improvising. They both studied classical music at university level, and they met teaching in Ramallah. Jason Crompton and Maddalena Pastorelli are both highly accomplished musicians. I suggested that if we do that, we may as well call it an Airbridge album, and would he like to contribute some material? Meanwhile, I had a word with two other musicians who lived near me, in Roccalbegna, if they’d like to join in. I’d started on what became ‘Memories of Water’ when Dave got in touch, offering to play the drums on it. She actually thanked me! I thought I must keep going with my music, if only for her. To my astonishment, there were people who enjoyed them: one young woman emailed me to say that she and her friends had redecorated her entire house listening to my music. I started recording little solo projects which I posted on the net via DistroKid. Lorenzo: As a widower living alone, I have a lot of time on my hands. What’s the story behind it? How long did you work on it? And such an amazing surprise to find so many – extremely patient – fans out there. The intervening years have been full of the stuff of life, and so the creation and release of ‘Memories of Water’ feels like a great achievement. I remember the excitement surrounding the creation and release of the album, and I had high hopes for the band’s future. How does it feel to be able to release a new album after 38 years?ĭave Dowdeswell-Allaway: When ‘Paradise Moves’ was released I was the band’s roadie and live sound engineer. In the following interview we reveled the story behind it.Ī very special thank to Richard Penguin for all the work done acting as the go between sorting out the interview. In about 2010 original guitarist/keyboardist/bassist and vocalist Lorenzo Bedini and bass player Sean Godfrey reunited with their sound-man turned drummer / guitarist Dave Dowdeswell-Allaway and an EP entitled ‘Return’ was released in 2013. However due to Lorenzo relocating to his native Italy in 2015, Sean being taken ill the following year and having to step down from the band for health reasons and then the pandemic hitting the world the album has taken a little bit longer than expected. They released their debut album ‘Paradise Moves’ in 1983 to great acclaim, and had completed a follow up album but broke up by the mid 80s before it saw the light of day. Airbridge | Interview | Cult Prog Band With New Album, ‘Memories of Water’ Airbridge is a prog rock band originally formed in Norfolk in 1980. They were part of the new prog scene of the early 80s in the UK, playing the Marquee, touring and sharing stages with the likes of IQ and Twelfth Night.
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