Silver Ships on the Sea by Pok the Bard.
Album: Anthology
Silver Ships on the Sea was composed by Pok in the summer of 1984. It is a wonderful whimsical wistful tale with a drop-D in the guitar. 'Drower tuning'.
We all loved this extraordinary song from the very first hearing and are very happy to be able to finally release this version. We feel it is both authentic to the original, as well as capturing the full spectrum of sounds as imagined and conceived back in the 80s. We invite the listener to feel the closeness of the festival crowd, and sense the dry ice and lighting on stage as the performers writhe and invoke under the moon.
What started out as a pretty little acoustic number about the Elves leaving Middle Earth turned into the most uncompromisingly relentless piece of hardcore psychedlia one could possibly imagine.
We had two attempts at recording the sea at Jacob's Ladder beach in Sidmouth, but sadly both were thwarted. Firstly by strong winds which rendered the recordings horrible. The second visit was thwarted by somebody's wretched dog, which barked and barked and barked for the entire time that we were there. It was unbelievable. It's probably still barking now. Eventually we downloaded somebody else's recording of the sea. It was a shame but it did the job. We had always imagined the flotilla of silvery elven boats waiting at the water's edge at Jacob's Ladder beach.
Originally the acoustic guitars were played on a borrowed Ovation-style instrument, but due to technical reasons we had to re-record them all. The re-recorded acoustic guitar was performed by Pok on his Tanglewood, and there is some video footage of the recording which we hope to publish someday.
from
Anthology,
released February 18, 2012
Silver Ships on the Sea, composed by S. Miller 1984.
This arrangement by Pok and Maxx Damage.
Copyright © 2020 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1984 Pok Songs/Explicit Music.
Performers:
Pok the Bard: vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, drums, percussion, descant recorder, rainstick
Maxx Damage: bass guitars, cello, synthesizer
The sound of the sea eventually came from here.
freesound.org/s/339517/
Recorded and engineeered at Wud Records Studio One, Exeter, 2015-17.
Recorded and engineeered at Wud Records Studio One, Europe, 2017-20.
Mixed and mastered at Wud Records Studio One, Europe, 2020.