Talking to You

'Talking to You' (featuring Sarah Davies)
(from the album 'Take It to the Bridge' 2009)

Another song featuring our lovely Welsh songstress Sarah. She recorded this just before her birthday in December 2008 when she was still all of 18. One of the things that I love about Sarah's voice is her distinctiveness; the tone and the phrasing make her easily and instantly identifiable and as well, she has a rare gift for bringing out the feeling in the lyrics, I'm so glad that we found her!

Lexie wrote the first part of the lyrics to this tune and we've been waiting to record it for some time. This was another of the tracks that we recorded in the converted church studio; having abandoned the main live space as a band, Steve put down the drums in the sound proofed drum booth and Richie and I recorded our parts in the control room.

There's a lot of alto flute in this song and there is an all instrumental version of the tune with alto flute lead but I do like the vocal version.

As a sax player, I haven't said very much yet about saxophones, so I'll start now... the sax on this track is a soprano, once described as 'the sax that should never have been invented' probably because they're more difficult to play, tuning and tone are harder to achieve. On the last Dr Sax album I played a Yamaha but since then I've switched to a Yanagisawa. It's a little more mellow and I use a copper neck with a Phil Barone mouthpiece. I play my soprano every day and it's a joy.

The backing vocals as ever feature Abby, Danni & Lexie (pictured with Richie above).

Drums: Steve Wilson
Bass: Richie Blake
Rhodes & Synth: Paul Raymond
Backing vocals: Abby Tweddle, Danni Douel & Lexie Raymond
Lead vocal: Sarah Davies
Soprano sax: Paul Raymond
Engineer: Tony Hobden
Production & mix: Paul Raymond

Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/182227569/Dr_Sax..._Talking_to_You.mp3