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''Cursed'' is the sixth album by English rock band The Scaramanga Six. == Background == The songs for ''Cursed'' were originally intended for what would have been the fifth Scaramanga Six album, ''A Pound of Flesh''. This album was scheduled for recording in 2006 with producer Tim Smith, who’d produced the band's third and fourth albums. Versions of tracks were recorded and a single, "Walking Through Houses", released before Smith was felled by a disastrous combined heart attack and stroke, leaving him unable to continue. Having become close friends with Smith, the band felt unable to replace him and complete the album sessions, later admitting "we simply couldn't go back to these recordings without him and recoiled to contemplate what to do next."〔(“The hideous transformation of the new album” ) – post on Scaramanga Six blog by Steven Morricone, November 22 2010〕 The initial solution was for The Scaramanga Six to write and record a new album of new songs, which duly became 2009's ''Songs of Prey'' album. ("We wanted to pay tribute to the man who had inspired us and felt that to carry on with as much bombast as possible was the best way.") The band hoped to wait and resurrect the uncompleted ''Pound of Flesh'' work once Smith had recovered. However, when the devastating long-term effects of Smith’s condition ensured that it was unlikely that this plan could be carried out, Steven and Paul Morricone opted to revisit the ''Pound of Flesh'' songs in 2010, finding a way of making use of the existing songwriting while honouring the memory of Smith and the original sessions. In 2011, Steven recalled the process as follows: "As we started bashing out new songs we knew that something wasn’t quite right – there was a feeling of unresolve. We had 'a lost album' and it suddenly hit us all. Could we simply ignore the wealth of music and love we had created with Sir Tim? No… It felt strange at first. These were songs we had heard over and over a few years before and we were playing them all again. But instead of a turgid process of replication we found ourselves reigniting the flame we had then adding more and more to it." The Morricones reworked and rewrote the songs as new versions, then recorded them in new sessions at 2fly Studios in Sheffield produced by Alan Smyth (Pulp, Arctic Monkeys, Richard Hawley and others). ''Cursed'' was also the most expansively-arranged Scaramanga Six album for many years, with the Morricone brothers’ saxophones bolstered by trumpet and trombone (recorded at the original Smith sessions), live strings, and additional keyboards played by former member Chris Catalyst. New York singer-songwriter and instrument inventor Thomas Truax also made a guest appearance, playing three of his own instruments – the Hornicator, the String-a-Ling and the mysterious Dracula’s Eyeball. Apart from the brass tracks, the only recording retained from the Smith sessions was "Walking Through Houses" which the Morricones decided "had to stay as it was". 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「Cursed (Scaramanga Six album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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