Big Big Train share new recording of Last Eleven
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Prog rock septet Big Big Train have shared a video for brand new version of Last Eleven, which you can watch here.
Originally from the band's most recent album The Likes Of Us, this new version was recorded at Sweetwater Studios in Fort Wayne, Indiana after the band had appeared on this year's Cruise To The Edge. The band recorded and mixed a new session with Sweetwater chief engineer Shawn Dealey. Big Big Train had used the studios to rehearse for their US live dates and also for their Cruise performance.
"Having rehearsed at Sweetwater before our USA shows and Cruise To The Edge in March, it was wonderful to return there for a recording session," explains lead singer Alberto Bravin. "It was interesting to take an alternative approach to Last Eleven, which differs significantly from the version released on The Likes Of Us album. We really enjoyed working with Shawn in Sweetwater’s amazing studios and hope to return there again in the future."
Drummer Nick D’Virgilio adds: “I really get into how songs make me feel and this version of 'Last Eleven', with its mellow beginning, has such a great vibe to it. Not that the original has anything wrong with it at all! I just like how the story in the song now comes across. It starts mellow, revs up and gets powerful, then ends mellow again. It also showcases some wonderful vocals.”
"We had this idea to take it down in the first verse, which I think turned out really sweet," adds guitarist and vocalist Rikard Sjöblom. "I ended up doing the intro on acoustic guitar, with Oskar [Holldorff, keyboards] on Fender Rhodes and Clare [Lindley] adding some nice violin lines, which turned Last Eleven into a different song for me. I also played some electric baritone guitar later in the song too, which added some further flavour to the overall sound. I think I like this new version even better than the original!"
Big Big Train will appear at the final Night Of The Prog festival in Lorely in Germany in July and at Cropredy Festival in the UK in August before setting out on European and UK dates in September and October.
Big Big Train released their 15th studio album, The Likes Of Us, back in March. The album is available on several different formats, including for the first time as Dolby Atmos mixed by The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord, while the stereo mixes were undertaken by the band’s regular engineer Rob Aubrey together with Alberto Bravin. The Dolby Atmos mix comes as part of the Limited CD & Blu-ray Mediabook edition that also contains the album as 5.1 Surround Sound & 24-bit high-resolution stereo.
(Source: www.loudersound.com)
