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''This Is the Sea'', released in September 1985, is the third The Waterboys album, and the last of their "Big Music" albums. Considered by critics to be the finest album of their early rock-oriented sound, described as "epic" and "a defining moment", it was the first Waterboys album to enter the United Kingdom charts, peaking at number thirty-seven. Steve Wickham makes his Waterboys recording debut playing violin on 'The Pan Within' and subsequently joined the band, appearing on the video of "The Whole Of The Moon". ''This Is the Sea'' is the last album with contributions from Karl Wallinger, who left the group to form his own band, World Party. Mike Scott, the album's principal songwriter and leader of The Waterboys, describes ''This Is the Sea'' as "the record on which I achieved all my youthful musical ambitions",〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.go-entertainment.com/page13/page13.html )〕 "the final, fully realised expression of the early Waterboys sound", influenced by The Velvet Underground, Van Morrison's ''Astral Weeks'', and Steve Reich. The album was recorded between March and July 1985, and released that October (see 1985 in music). A remastered and expanded version was released in 2004. ''This Is the Sea'' contains the best-selling Waterboys single, the song "The Whole of the Moon". The album cover is a photograph taken by Lynn Goldsmith. ==Production history== Scott began writing songs for ''This Is the Sea'' in the spring of 1984, beginning with the song "Trumpets". Scott recalls that in December 1984 "during The Waterboys' first American tour, () bought two huge hard-bound books... in which to assemble () new songs"〔 For the following two months Scott worked on the songs in his apartment, writing the lyrics, and working on guitar and piano arrangements. Scott wrote between thirty-five and forty songs, but felt that the nine songs that made it onto the album "were the ones that were intended to be there".〔 The first song from the album to be played live was "Trumpets", on 10 April 1984.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=mikescottwaterboys.com )〕 The first recording session for ''This Is the Sea'' began in March 1985 at Park Gates Studio in Hastings, England with engineer and producer John Brand. Band members Scott, Anthony Thistlethwaite, Karl Wallinger, Kevin Wilkinson, and Roddy Lorimer performed the new material. Wallinger's home studio heard demo recordings for a number of the album's songs. Some of the recordings, like the ones of the last two albums, are relatively untouched by studio engineering. On other recordings, however, Scott added a drum machine and layered the sound,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=mikescottwaterboys.com )〕 using a studio technique similar to that of the famous record producer Phil Spector, with help from Wallinger. "Having Karl () in the studio", writes Scott, "was like having a one-man orchestra around. There might have been a ''This Is the Sea'' without him, but it wouldn't have been the same – or as good".〔 (Nonetheless, it was Wallinger's second and last appearance on a Waterboys' album.) The recording sessions continued through June. By July, Wickham, after an invitation from Scott, entered the studio with the band to add his fiddle to "The Pan Within". Produced from the original sessions at Park Gates Studio, along with recordings from Livingston Studios in London, Amazon in Liverpool, Seaview, and The Townhouse Studio, among others, the album was released in October. Peter Anderson, writing in ''Record Collector'', describes Scott as "completely at home in the studio" and writes that Scott "spared nothing on" ''This Is the Sea''. A remastered version was released in 2004, with a second CD of material from the album's singles, and unreleased tracks from the ''This Is the Sea'' recording sessions. 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「This Is the Sea」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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