Wishbone Ash Strange Affair UK 1991 LP IRS Recs
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Wishbone Ash Strange Affair UK 1991 LP IRS Records Catalogue Number EIRSA 1045. Wishbone Ash began work on Strange Affair, their third album for the IRS label, during the Summer of 1990. For this album, producer Martin Turner removed the equipment from his London home studio and installed it at Andy Powell’s UK home in Great Brickhill, near Milton Keynes. The recording process would not go without problems and would take the best part of eight months – the longest period Wishbone Ash had spent recording since Just Testing in 1979. The first setback came during early sessions for the album with the departure of drummer Steve Upton due to personal problems. Steve’s departure led to him not only parting company with the band, but also quitting the music business altogether (he now manages Miles Copeland’s chateau in the south of France).
For the recording sessions the band initially recruited drummer Robbie France (ex UFO, Diamond Head, Ellis Beggs and Howard). France toured with Wishbone briefly during the Autumn of 1990, but was eventually replaced by Ray Weston, a noted figure on the London studio scene who had previously played with Martin Turner during the early eighties. Both drummers appear on the album.
As with its predecessor Here To Hear, compositions penned by the individual members of the band dominated Strange Affair. The material chosen covered a diverse range of styles but, to a certain extent, indicated that the three songwriters in the band were pulling in three vastly different musical directions. The dominance of Andy Powell as vocalist/songwriter on tracks such as "Strange Affair" (co-written with former member Andy Pyle), "Hard Times" and "Renegade" made for an overall bluesier feel on those songs. Martin Turner continued to pursue his interest in incorporating synthesisers into the band’s music and contributed the track "You" which, like much of Martin’s latter day material, had an autobiographical lyric content. Ted Turner meanwhile contributed a mixed bag of material from the dreamy "Say You Will" through to the all-out of "Standing in the Rain", the latter being arguably the finest song on the album.
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