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''Cabin Fever'' is the third album by English rock band The Scaramanga Six. == Background == Following the promotional dates for the second Scaramanga Six album (2002's ''Strike! Up the Band''), multi-instrumentalist Jenny Harris and drummer James Agnew both left the band. A new drummer, Steve Gilchrist, joined the remaining lineup of Paul and Steven Morricone, Julia Arnez and keyboard player John Gulliver. To produce the next album, ''Cabin Fever'', the Morricones approached one of their longtime musical heroes - Cardiacs leader Tim Smith. In an interview with ''ireallylovemusic.co.uk'' around the time of the album's release, Paul Morricone asserted that "Tim Smith has been making mindblowing music with Cardiacs for years and years. We wanted to work with one of our all-time heroes. So we sent him some stuff and he agreed to record us – It’s the ultimate compliment when someone whose work you’ve admired for a long time really likes what you do."〔("The Scaramanga Six: Paul Morricone of ireallylovemusic's fave band The Scaramanga Six! tells us all bout the gore and horror that is the band’s new album ''Cabin Fever''" ) – interview in ''ireallylovemusic.co.uk''〕 Encouraged by Smith, ''Cabin Fever'' saw The Scaramanga Six deliberately moving towards a noisier, less polished production style. Paul Morricone commented at the time "''Strike! Up The Band'' was made up of several recording sessions in different places and sounded like it. ''Cabin Fever'' has a complete sound to it. We also thought that the next logical step for us would be to do what we did on ''Strike! Up the Band'' but much more extreme – louder, faster, slower, more dynamic, more uncomfortable. The next album will push the envelope even more.” Many of the songs on the album mythologised the band’s struggles (as private individuals and as independent musicians) with Paul Morricone reflecting in an interview that "the title suggests the feeling of being locked up in claustrophobic rooms, sweaty and uncomfortable. That’s exactly what it was like doing the album. We spent an unhealthy amount of time together to get this done and illness and disease spread to epidemic proportions while we recorded. There were buboes upon buboes and cabin fever really did set in. We like to think that the insanity and deprivation is apparent when listening to the album." Three songs on ''Cabin Fever'' – "The Coward", "Horrible Face" and "Poison Fang" - were re-recordings of songs from the band’s 1999 debut album ''The Liar the Bitch and Her Wardrobe'' (which at the time was no longer available). During the first recording session for ''Cabin Fever'', The Scaramanga Six were a five-piece. However, John Gulliver (who'd been an intermittent band member for the previous two years) left the band for the final time prior to the second session, resulting in him only playing on five tracks. As The Scaramanga Six adapted to being a quartet, Steven Morricone took on most of the band's keyboard duties both live and in the studio. ''Cabin Fever'' was released in April 2004. The band toured around the UK to support the album, and released two EPs from it - "We Rode The Storm" (November 2004) and "Horrible Face" (May 2005). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cabin Fever (Scaramanga Six album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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