Track Listing
1. Sea Shimmer
2. Star of India
3. Stream of Thoughts
4. March of the Plank Spankers
5. Slow Waves, Always Returning
6. Interlude
7. The Air-Conditioned Digital Nightmare
8. Regiment
9. Where There’s Life
10. Up on the Hill MP3
11. Heavy on the Magick MP3
12. The Home Straits
I always like to have an idea in my head before I begin recording and with “Heavy on the Magick” the idea was to do the complete opposite of ‘Fade In/Fade Out’. So I cut back on the guitars, used more keyboards and took a more traditional rhythmic approach with the return of the drum machine.
Stand out tracks include the multi-ethnic ‘Star of India’, ‘Up on the Hill’ and the pulsing title track ‘Heavy on the Magick’.
One interesting story is that “Sea Shimmer” had previously been used as background music at my wedding. We were asked to bring along some music to play during the signing of the registration book and my soon-to-be wife suggested that I bring along some of my own music. So the morning of the wedding I quickly burnt that track onto a CD and took it to the registry office.

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