Strangers In The Night

by NOW ZERO

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1.	The Monster's Wife 02:52	info	buy track
2.	There Won't Be a Next Time 06:20	info	buy track
3.	Magenta 05:16	info	buy track
4.	Blue You 06:05	info	buy track
5.	How Water Feels To A Fish 02:30	info	buy track
6.	We Never Said Goodbye 04:02	info	buy track
7.	Light On The Road 05:25	info	buy track
8.	Only So Many 04:43	info	buy track
9.	Scars 03:09	info	buy track
10.	Green Chilli Vodka 02:14	info	buy track
11.	The Empire Builder 05:58	info	buy track
12.	Strangers In The Night 03:25	info	buy track
13.	Colour Man In The Middle Of Montmartre 03:38	info	buy track

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Following on from '19', this is an instrumental album of tunes with an emphasis on improvisation. It's sort of jazz. I call it 'Robot Jazz' because of the disruptive conceit at its heart. I sketch out the tunes and then encourage my more jazzily inclined musical friends to improvise over them. I then play the 'drums', keyboard and bass parts and effectively fake the interactions that would happen if we were a real quartet of quintet rather than just strangers in the night, or afternoon.
John Hurn is one of my favourite guitarists and I love his playing on my tunes. Gary Matthews is a long term musical collaborator and plays in many styles on various manifestations of Now Zero's fractured musical personality. Gary and John met briefly at a gig we three attended but have never actually played together.

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released August 21, 2023

All music by Windmill except
There Won't Be A Next Time by Matthews/Windmill
Magenta; Light On The Road and Colour Man In The Middle of Montmartre by Hurn
Blue You by Matthews

John Hurn: Guitars; Banjo
Gary Matthews: Saxes; Percussion
Windmill: Keyboards; Basses; Percussion

Produced by Windmill

Recorded 2020-2023 at Toad Hall

Album Artwork and Design by Windmill

Thanks to Marcus Weeks for the original arrangement of Blue You

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Named after the JG Ballard short story about an author who can literally write a death sentence.
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