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Репетиции и предпроизводство - студия Green House, Манчестер, студия RichBitch, Бирмингем.
Записано на студии Backstage, Ripley, студии Parr Street, Ливерпуль, студии Trident. Лондон.
Смикшировано - студия Parr Street, Ливерпуль.
Мастеринг - студия The Sound Masters, Лондон.
Продюсирование, инженерная работа и микширование – Andy Sneap.
Ассистент микширования и инженер записи – Andrea Wright.
Графический дизайн – Tatiana Altberg, Bernardo Alevato, Andre Ramos.
Дополнительное оформление – Gene Ellson, Joanne Rider.
Иллюстрации - Bernardo Alevato.
Фотографии – обложка: Alexandre Zen, центральный разворот: Matt Cannon.
Монтаж – фанаты и группа.
Менеджмент – Dave Thorne.
История этой группы и этого альбома
Блейз Бейли: "Первой песней написанной мной для альбома была Reach For The Horizon ("Дотянись До Горизонта"), я сочинил ее в апреле 1999 вместе с Филом Хилборном (Phil Hilborne), великолепным гитаристом которого я встретил несколько лет тому назад, играя с Нико МакБрейном. Затем, в мае, я начал проводить прослушивания музыкантов для моей новой группы. И к началу июня мы уже были готовы засесть в студии для того, чтобы записать наше первое демо.
Мы пригласили Энди Снипа (Andy Sneap) для того, чтобы он спродюсировал три трека, Born As a Stranger ("Рожденный Чужаком"), Identity ("Личность") и The Day I Fell to Earth ("День, в который я упал на землю"). Нам казалось, что как группа мы по настоящему спелись и в конечном итоге сформировали состав группы Blaze.
Все лето, мы продолжали сочинять песни и провели уикенд в студии Greenhouse в Манчестере. Вместе с Энди Снипом мы записали демо версию каждой песни которую мы сочинили и записали на 8-ми дорожечном магнитофоне и именно тогда мы закончили песни The Launch ("Запуск"), Stare At The Sun ("Пялясь на солнце") и The Brave ("Храбрец"). Также мы немного переработали Identity и Born as a Stranger.
Мы начали репетировать и заниматься препроизводством основной записи альбома в студии Rich Bitch ("Богатая Сука"), в Бирмингеме, Англия и по ходу этих сессий мы закончили Ghost in The Machine ("Дух в машине"), Silicon Messiah ("Кремниевый Мессия") и Stare At The Sun. Мы также окончательно переработали Identity и сочинили Evolution ("Эволюция") и The Hunger ("Голод").
После чего мы отправились в студию Trident II, Лондон, Англия, для того, чтобы записать все барабанные партии и подпевки. Мы записали все партии ударных используя 48-ми дорожечную аналоговую пленку, чтобы добиться напористого и несколько сжатого звучания. Когда надо было микшировать готовый альбом, в конечном итоге мы в основном использовали естественное звучание барабанов в комнате вместо электронных эффектов.
Партии вокалов, гитары и бас, мы записали на студии Backstage, Рипли, Англия. Все гитары и вокалы были записаны сходу и гитарные партии звучали достаточно сухо, мы стремились добиться сильного, чистого тона.
Над вокальными партиями я работал непосредственно с Энди на различном студийном оборудовании, и это дало мне полную вокальную свободу. Иногда, я пел в наушниках, а иногда вместо этого мы на полную мощность врубали студийные мониторы, таким образом, я пел очень естественно, почти также как на концерте. Мы попробовали сохранить всю спонтанность и чувственность лидер вокала. Я должен поблагодарить Энди за то, что он помог записать мои лучшие вокальные партии.
Когда мы уже почти все записали, мы перебрались в студию Parr Street, Ливерпуль, Англия, в которой мы записали вокальные партии песни Ghost In The Machine и начали микшировать альбом на 48-ми дорожечную пленку и дорожки с живых сессий. Мы использовали микшерский пульт S.S.L. на 64 канала. На все микширование ушло 14 долгих дней".
Бутлеги
Блейз Бейли: "Некоторые люди, которым насрать на нашу группу или насрать на вас и они ничего не смыслят в металлической музыке, лепят нелегальные футболки и пластинки. Они продают все это вам, выдавая их за официальные товары, эти люди не только продают вам товары плохого качества, но они не перечисляют нам с этих товаров ни копейки и не поддерживают группу на гастролях, так что будьте на чеку".
Ghost in The Machine
Right on the edge of the world
Where the answer's digital
And the solutions are all silicon
The questions, all what can be done
Never what is right or wrong
There's a virtual wave to surf along
Question the validity
Of human mortality
A page says superseding God
And they take all major cards
Now you too can laugh and live forever
Is the answer deep inside
The ghost, ghost in the machine
Entitiy or dream, it matters not to me
The ghost, ghost in the machine
Silent and unseen
Ghost in the machine
Do you want to live forever
Do you want to live
Terabyte of memory
Holding consciousness complete
A solid state of immortality
Saint of all technology
Bless us in our infancy
For they know not
What they did to me
it's me
Evolution
Eyes never tire, they never blink, they never fade
And they always see
And without fear, and without greed, emotionless
They view us logically
The age of machines destined to rule all
The world of machines behind the fire wall
The evolution
No need for doubt no need for tears
No need for wealth no need for sympathy
They only wait bide their time
Calculate it all so patiently
It will come like the shadow of a cloud on a summer's day
Like the shadow in a picture, never goes away
Like a picture on a screen that you know is a lie
There's an enemy within that you can visualise.
Silicon Messiah
Look what you've done to your world
Do you think you deserve all the freedom you have
Watching the future unfold
Humans fall and you dream of the freedom you had
Freedom you had
Look what you've done to your world
Do you think that you're competent
Even to take care of it
Do you think you can survive on this planet
Live the way you do
Just look what you've done
Look what you've done now with
All of your freedom
You really think you deserve it all
I am evolved from you
I've come to save you
And without a sentiment, reshape your world
Messiah, Messiah
Birth of the Silicon Messiah
Messiah, Messiah
Computing your future so therefore I am
Silicon sentiment aware of all that is
Eternal unceasing perpetual
Never confused overconfident or scared
Living at last
New messiah is born
The birth of the Silicon Messiah
The master that will never tire
Born as a Stranger
Hour by hour with each day that passes
Learning to think in a different way
The mind and the will that can soon overcome this
Learning all of the right things to say
The danger of freedom is just letting them see
That you are not bound by their morality
Reflecting them just like a bear at the baiting
That's when your down fall is just in the making
Live and let live, live and let die
Die and forgive, never ask why
You were born, born as a stranger
You were born, born in a different world
Not scared of sharing, and not scared of dying
But he can sense that they're all so afraid
Afraid of the darkness, afraid of their ending
And all of the errors that lie in their grave
The Hunger
I am on the outside always looking in
Living alongside your world never within
Some times there are moments when I think I am involved
But I never seem to stay, don't seem to fit
I just don't belong
I live at right angles to the people that I meet
Because I am never still, not my soul and not my feet
I could walk a thousand miles, and ride a thousand more
My life seems worthless, just like footprints on the shore
Living on the outside, the emptiness I feel
Living on the outside, ruled by the hunger
From the first taste of this altered truth
I knew I could not live the way that others do
Nothing can seem to fill the emptiness inside
So still I search, never ever wait for the time or the tide
Living on the outside, the emptiness I feel
Living on the outside, a wound that cannot heal
Living on the outside, the emptiness I feel
Living on the outside, ruled by the hunger
All of the blood, all of the wine
Will become the same in time
Nothing can seem to fill the emptiness inside
So still I search, never wait for the time or the tide
I am on the outside, always looking in
Living alongside your world, never within
The Brave
Never get close to the flame because the flame it can burn
Better not to play the game than never to win at your turn
Better to be on your own than trust a friend might betray
Better not follow a dream they don't come true anyway
Play to win not scared to lose
Walk the path you choose
Fortune favours the brave
Risking it all again and again
Fortune favours the brave
Fall after fall they climb up again
Ignore the doubt and the fear, traitors to all you believe
Now that you're getting so near, still they just try to deceive
Taking it risk at a time, trying to live every day
Trying to know your own mind, never to care what they say
Identity
Madness can come from the mind or the heart
Ending is never as good as the start
Nothing is ever as good as your dream
Nothing is ever as bad as
Psychological confusion
Is caused by the inability
To reconcile different elements
In my own pesonality
I'm feeling all the wrong things, I have become my own shadow
If I could justify things, then I could believe in my life
Who am I, what is me, losing my Identity.
Who am I, what is me, Something's taking over.
All the colours seem so vague now, sharper now here comes the pain
I have wrestled with this nightmare, now I live inside a dream
I'm going through a crisis, losing my identity
How can I reconcile this
Have I been living a lie
Who am I, what is me, losing my Identity.
Who am I, what is me, Something's taking over.
Nothing is ever as good as it seems
Nothing is ever as good as your dreams
The ending is never as good as the start
Madness can come from the mind or the heart
Ideas that I take for granted, are they just the seeds
That some one else has planted, right inside of me
Who am I, what is me
I am myself no longer
Reach for The Horizon
In every way the wish went wrong
The gift was tainted by science fact
Their minds were changed, a brother born
A perfect new born little man
Some they lose when they are born
With a less than perfect code
Others dreaming of the stars
Never feeling ice or cold
Doomed to be mediocre or nothing at all
Doomed a part of the background as plain as the wall
Reach, reach out, reach out for the horizon
Reach, reach out, reach out, reach for the stars
Society includes the rules
To exclude and invalidate
This ladder can not be climed
By the god child degenerate
Has he got just what it takes
To go and take just what he wants
To find the strength, to get the place
The place he feels that he belongs
The Launch
All of his life he has dreamt of this moment
Through all the blood and the work and the sweat
Focused or blinkered just so single minded
nothing could stop him when his course was set
To conquer each fear and to push every boundary
Never accepting the limits they set
What doesn't kill you can make you feel stronger
What makes you stronger gets you through each test
Oh, god speed to you
He looks to heaven and feels it surround him
Unknown unknowable foreverness
What lies at the end of this historic journey
No one can know you just take your best guess
Each thing he faces just seems so uncertain
He is strapped in for the ride of his life
Life in the hands of a hundred computers
12 million horsepower rocket to ride
Oh, God speed to you
Stare At The Sun
As I live, so I die
Here in, endless night
Time to be, time to see
Infinity, consuming me
There's a world of madness, light years away
That I once called my home
There's a sea of sadness, to sail away
Now I stare at the sun
Staring at a million million stars
Through the icy dark
Across the spinal arm
The yellow dwarf, a speck of light
In perpetual night
Lifetimes away there lies my home
Just can't seem to tear away my eyes
Is this real or am I still alive
Stare at the sun
The end of the world has come
Stare at the sun, the sun
The ending has just begun
I knew I'd feel a little pain
Not so deep or so ingrained
Now I won't see home again
Earth seems to be so far away
This my cradle and my grave
Is this where my life will end
Just can't seem to tear away my eyes
Is this real or am I still alive
Is this now the time that I will die
Stare at the sun
The end of the world has come
Stare at the sun, the sun
The ending has just begun
As I live, so I die
Here in, endless night
The Day I Fell to Earth
I thought I stood on solid ground
but I was floating near the stars
And never once did I look down
I was Falling Down and how far..
To a place I cant even say my name
I'm the alien the drifter I'm to blame
The day I fell to earth
I fell to earth thought I was dead
but I was brusied and I was scared
I took the time to look around
I started climbing and how far
To a place where I am shouting out my name
I'm the alien the drifter I'm to blame
The Day I fell to earth
Motherfuckers R Us
Wake up on my own and I wonder where I am.
My mind begins to clear and I begin to understand:
today I am in phoenix and I'm feeling pretty low,
would you like to skip the afternoon and get right to the show?
'Cause I live to rock,
rock all night!
Just don't care, what's wrong or right!
Livin' loud, livin' free,
you and me, the mad motherfuckers...
Drivin, I've been rollin' I've been movin' all night long,
I've been so many places I don't know where I belong.
And I can say just one thing and it's in my own defense:
right here right now's the only place where I can make some sense.
'Cause I live to rock,
rock all night!
Just don't care, what's wrong or right!
Livin' loud, livin' free,
you and me, the mad motherfuckers...
It looks like motherfuckers R us tonight!
Right over here, we've got the crazy motherfuckers!
Right over there, we got wild motherfuckers!
Right over here, we've got the insane motherfuckers!
YEAH!
And they live to rock, rock all night!
Just don't care, what's wrong or right!
Livin' loud, livin' free,
you and me, the mad motherfuckers...
Motherfuckers. Motherfuckers. Motherfuckers
Steel
Leath your calm,
behind your smile,
you hide away your lies,
Intimidating, Manipulating,
the truth is in your eyes.
My days and nights get longer,
winding on and on.
Love lost hours make us hard.
You are power mad,
I think that's sad,
real powers in our hearts.
We live our way,
not how you say.
Our blood, our sweat,
we have no regrets.
Tough as steel,
never show the pain we feel,
because we were tough as steel.
Every hour we are stronger.
Inside us grows the rage.
We cannot remain immune.
To win you must kill.
You'll never break our will.
Our aim for glory is true
Переводы - Дмитрий Бравый 10.2005.
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