Vanessa MAE

Storm

(1997)

1. Summer Haze 3'09
(Original Arr. Andy Hill / Vanessa Mae)
2. Storm 3'43
(Original Arr. Andy Hill / Vanessa Mae)
3. Retro 3'57
(Andy Hill / Vanessa Mae)
4. Bach Street Prelude 4'26
(Original Arr. Andy Hill / Vanessa Mae)
5. Leyenda 6'33
(Andy Hill / Vanessa Mae)
6. (I) Can, Can (You ?) 3'40
(Original Arr. Andy Hill / Vanessa Mae)
7. Happy Valley 6'33
(Andy Hill / Vanakorn Nicholson / Vanessa Mae)
8. A Poet's Quest (For a Distant Paradise) 4'32
(Andy Hill / Vanessa Mae)
9. Embrasse Moi (You Fly Me Up) 5'03
(Andy Hill / Vanakorn Nicholson / Wendy Page)
10. Aurora 4'56
(Vanessa Mae / Ian Wherry)
11. I'm A Doun 4'29
(Traditional / Vanessa Mae)
12. I Feel Love 6'57
(Donna Summer / Giorgio Moroder / Peter Bellotte)
13. Hocus Pocus 3'15
(Thijs Van Leer / Ian Akkerman)
14. The Blessed Spirits 8'16
(Andy Hill / Vanessa Mae)

Total Time: 59:29

  • Vanessa Mae - Violin, Arranger, Vocals, Background Vocals
  • Geoff Whitehorn - Guitar
  • Andy Hill - Bass, Guitar, Arranger, Keyboards, Organ (Hammond), Programming, Orchestration
  • Richard Cottle - Keyboards, Programming
  • Graham Broad - Drums
  • Peter Lockett - Percussion
  • Wendy Page - Background Vocals
  • John Cameron - Conductor, Orchestration
  • Dave Arch - Conductor, Orchestration
  • Marcia Crayford - Orchestra Leader
  • Vasko Vassilev - Orchestra Leader

    Andy Hill - Producer
    Brian Tench - Engineer, Mixing
    Dick Lewzey - Engineer
    Nick Griffiths - Engineer, Mixing
    Mike Ross - Engineer
    Alex Marcou - Engineer
    Terry Edwards - Director, Choir Master
    Flavia Cureteu - Art Direction, Design

    The album has been released on EMI in Eurpe. The US release will be on VIRGIN RECORDS (available Feburary 1998). The title track Storm is based on the Third Movement Summer of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. The first track Summer Haze is based on the First Movement.
    Vanessa Mae recorded J.S. Bach's Partitia in E on the Classical Album 1.
    The 4th track Bach Street Prelude is a reincarnation of the opening movement of this original piece using voices and rythms supplied on electronic instruments and dustbins even. I believe that those who think that using dustbins is a blasphemy simply have no fantasy and only fear the place where all their work might end.
    The 7th track Happy Valley was composed for the re-unification of Hong Kong. This original version has been released on the Happy Valley Single. It's also on China Girl. The piece is "about us, people living in this modern world who are witnessing these changes."
    I'm A Doun, the 11th track was originally released on the Classical Album 1 under the title I'm A Doun For Lack O'Johnnie.
    The Four Movements of Max Bruch's Scottish Fantasy For Violin And Orchestra which Vanessa Mae also recorded on the Classical Album 1 are all based on Scottish folk songs and I'm A Doun is one of them.
    Aurora is a remake originally released on the rare ALTERNATIVE RECORD. Richard Chuen-Shiuh Chu wrote a Little Critique of Can, Can . Vanessa Mae sings on two tracks of the album: Embrasse Moi and I feel love (which is the 2nd Single release from this album). Most of the lyrics of Embrasse Moi are in french. Sonja Schirmer translated it. The emphasized part is originally also in English. Embrasse Moi (You Fly Me Up)