Are you completly satisfied about your last work?
One can never be completely satisfied about a piece of work, however, I do feel that the songs are some of the best I've ever written and that the standard of musicianship is higher than usual. So I'm happy with the new album. It's certainly a change of style for me.
Wich are the most important ispiration for doing this new album?
Truthfully? I spent a year being very unhappy about a situation in my life. I was almost in complete despair and I could do nothing about the problem. I wrote songs and sang them...like a solitary bird singing in the darkness before morning. There was nothing else I could do. Even though some of the songs sound happy and bright they all came out of that darkness. Things are better now. I think maybe also, because I am in  middle age now, the period of darkness I went through also coincided with my own reassesment of my life. It sounds dramatic...corny even but this is the truth
Is There some others artists that you think important to reccomend us?
The Divine Comedy, The High Llamas, an English chansonnier called Jake Thackray, Tom Waits
Gillian Welch. That would be a good start.
Are there some others projects for the your future?
Yes. I have a new book I'm working on. I've also started to write a new album. It will be more guitars and drums...more pop...less jazz. Oh and in November there will be a new long poem called A Return To Flanders, about the Great War 1914-1918. There are always new projects. It's my life and my work.
Is there something in your album that you don't like enough?
Maybe the 11th song, which is called Rosebay Railway. It's the one song on the album where I felt that the demo...which was just my voice and a piano...had more emotion in it. But the sound quality of the demo wasn't quite good enough. It's not a big problem though. It still sounds pretty good.

Martin Newell
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