Stuart Moxham & Spike Wiliams
are working on a brand new Album!
How The Fallen Are Mighty
By Suart Moxham .........(july 19, 2024)

 

Spike was at the second gig Young Marble Giants ever did. It took place in a small, city centre, council run youth club/venue called Grassroots. How appropriate I suddenly realise that name is!
It was 1979 and the band were trying out their musical ideas live, having seeded the stream with thirty numbered cassettes of their home recorded set. He, and the fellow members of his band Reptile Ranch, became friends, encouragers and enablers of YMG. Spike became and remains our first, and one of our greatest, fans. He has worked extensively in various iterations with all three (four, including Drew Moxham) of the former Giants in the forty five years since then.
Classically trained on the viola, he is also a distinctive guitarist and has become an accomplish recordist, currently on DAW software. Some of his very best musical accompaniments were achieved one of the albums he recorded as Alison and Spike, called “The Shady Tree.”



Artwork idea for the cover		 Spike is a man of passionate enthusiasms. I recall that, at the time, he was fascinated with The Golden Section and he wanted to use it in the treatment of the songs on that album. He also had a particular sonic palette which sounds like something from the future – no musical instruments, but beautifully wielded noises which could be the reversing alarms for flying saucers! I guess the combination of formal training as the third element is what helped to produce that extraordinary sounding record.

Earlier this year I put together a dozen songs; my most recently written seven and five which have been waiting for a suitable context. I recorded them as simple guitar and vocal WAV files and emailed them to him with a completely free hand to do as he pleases. So far he has returned four, which are exciting and I can't wait to mix them!
The name for this project was just an idea which I grabbed as it flitted across the front of my mind, and the artwork consists of a photograph I made of a slate carving by a friend called John Ireland, who has his workshop in the same place as I had my studio for many years.

 

 

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Spike and Stuart with Alison at Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (2017)

 

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