With this song I just really wanted to create a simple piece, and as such, Entangled is a spectacular failure. The lyrics began by dealing with wishing like magic to go back to an earlier and better time in a relationship. And then all the musical elements started to wander down an uncharted path. The chord progressions started to evolve, as did the form of the song, along with the melody, and in the end, even the basic 4/4 common meter morphed into an inconsistent 13/4 time signature for the final section. One day a beautiful hand-made German marimba appeared in the studio and so whimsically it got added to the track right away. And the bass line alone took several months, exhausting dozens of different takes and ideas before coming up with the end result, with the icing on the cake being guest bassist Attila Tothʼs final lyrical bass solo --- simply sublime!
It seems now that once the title for the song emerged, the piece really did take on a life of its own and gradually became more and more intricate and complex. Even when it came to the final mix, somehow the song ended up in two different studios with two different producers, each coming up with their own unique version, both of which I love. So watch for Philip Strongʼs version (still to come) which morphed into a completely new piece called Every Time I Hear.
As a youth, I enjoyed some of the great music of the British progressive art rock band Genesis, and especially their Trick of the Tail / Wind and Wuthering era. One of their songs shares the same title as this new Stone Fabel song, but other than that there is no intended connection; it is just a happy coincidence. The song features guitarist Bob Wegner and drummer Adam Bowman. The ruby mix has more of Bob, and also has bass and mixing by Attila Toth. The pearl mix is my own with my original bass line.
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