Rushes

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Rushes
Studio album by The Fireman : Paul McCartney and Youth

Publication
(s)

September 21, 1998 ( UK ) ,
October 20, 1998 ( US)

Label (s) Hydra / EMI Group

Format (s)

LP , CD , download

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

8th

running time

61 min 20 s

occupation

production

Paul McCartney, Youth

Studio (s)

Hog Hill Mill Studios, Sussex

chronology
Standing Stone
(1997) 		Rushes Run Devil Run
(1999)

Rushes ( English reeds ) is the second studio album by the duo The Fireman , which consists of Paul McCartney and Youth . At the same time, including the Wings albums, the Fireman albums, the classic albums, the live albums and compilation albums, it is Paul McCartney's 29th album after the Beatles split up . It was released on September 21, 1998 in the UK and October 20, 1998 in the US .

Emergence

After completing his classic album Standing Stone , Paul McCartney recorded the song A Room with a View, written in 1927, in his Sussex studio on December 12, 1997 for the benefit album Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward . Paul McCartney stuck to the original recording for the instrumentation and vocals.

In February 1998 Paul McCartney went back to his Hog Hill Mill studio in Sussex with Youth, alias Martin Glover, and recorded another album. Little information is known about the creation or the recordings. While the previous album by The Fireman, Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest , consists mainly of mixes of already published recordings by Paul McCartney, newly composed songs were recorded for Rushes , which are essentially atmospheric instrumental music. Two previously unreleased sung songs by Paul McCartney, recorded in December 1995, have been fragmentarily inserted into the songs of Rushes . Hey Now (What You Are Looking For?) Was used for the songs Bison, Auraveda and 7 am , and Let Me Love You Always was used for the song Palo Verde . The voice of Linda McCartney and the sounds of horses can also be heard on the song Palo Verde .

Linda McCartney died of breast cancer on April 17, 1998 ; It is not known whether further work was carried out on the album after her death. Rushes was released on September 21, 1998.

Due to the use of a pseudonym , it was again only known to a few potential buyers that the two members of The Fireman were Paul McCartney and Youth, so that sales of the second Fireman album were again low, although more advertising was made than for the first album . It was only with the release of The Fireman's third album Electric Arguments in 2008 that it was officially announced who was behind the pseudonym.

On October 2, 1998, The Fireman appeared masked at Abbey Road Studios (Studio No. 1) and presented live mixes of five songs from their album, with additional instrumentation and vocals added. The broadcast of the appearance took place on the homepage of The Fireman.

Rushes was not released by Parlophone but by another EMI Group label.

The album was also released as a vinyl double album.

Cover design

The designer and the photographers of the cover are not mentioned. All that is known is that the naked woman on the inside cover was photographed by Bunny Yeager in 1973 .

Track list

All songs were written by Paul McCartney and Youth.

  1. Watercolor Guitars - 5:48
  2. Palo Verde - 11:56
  3. Auraveda - 12:51
  4. Fluid - 11:19
  5. Appletree Cinnabar Amber - 7:12
  6. Bison - 2:40
  7. 7 am - 7:49 am
  8. Watercolor Rush - 1:45

Information on individual songs

During the song Fluid , female voices can be heard whose origins were rumored to have been assigned to a phone sex hotline. The record company has denied this.

On May 28, 1999, Paul McCartney recorded the song Clean Machine at Abbey Road Studios, which was used for the Linda McCartney Foods Pro Cycling Team website. The song, which contains samples of the Beatles song Penny Lane , is attributed to The Fireman, but this is not verifiable as it has not yet been released.

Single releases

In September 1998 the limited 12 ″ vinyl single Fluid / Appletree Cinnabar Amber / Bison (Long One) was released in Great Britain .

In early 1999, 3000 copies of the 12 "vinyl single Fluid (Nitin Sawhney Remixes) were released in the UK , which contains the following three mixtures: Fluid (Out of Body and Mind Mix) , Fluid (Out of Body Mix) , Fluid (Out of Body with Sitar Mix) and the album version by Bison.

Fluid / Appletree Cinnabar Amber / Bison (Long One) was released as a promotional single CD in September 1998 , with Bison having a length of 7:55 minutes, which is over five minutes longer than the album version. A promotional 12 "vinyl single with the same content was also produced in the UK.

Chart placements

Neither the album nor the singles could place in the official charts.

Re-releases

  • The album has not yet been remastered.
  • In June 2011 the album was released in download format.

literature

  • Chip Madinger, Mark Easter: Eight Arms To Hold You - The Solo Compendium. 44.1 Productions, 2000, ISBN 0-615-11724-4 , pp. 400-402.
  • Luca Perasi: Paul McCartney: Recording Sessions (1969-2013). LILY Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-88-909122-1-4 , pp. 338-340.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 12 ″ -Single: Fluid
  2. ↑ 12 "-Single: Fluid - The Nitin Sawhney Remixes
  3. ↑ Promotion CD: Fluid
  4. ↑ 12 "vinyl promotion CD: Fluid