Search - Louis Philippe :: Unknown Spring

This is how Louis himself explains the birth of An Unknown Spring: ''even when we were still finishing The Wonder Of It All, I was starting to write down ideas for what I knew would be a completely different record, which would be a departure from my usual `style' my Brill Building ethos, if you will. Songs that would be part pop-songs, part lieder in their structure - more linear, with a different feel for form, more adventurous - because that was how the melodies were already taking shape in my head. So, for two years, I built up a number of songs on paper. But I needed a catalyst to kick off the recording process, and that proved to be my work as a string arranger for The Clientele for their new record, God Save The Clientele, which has just been released on Merge. I realised how much I was missing the studio environment and working with Ken; I also realised I was ready.'' All songs and arrangements by Louis. Recorded January-April 2007 at Regal Lane Studio, Regent's Park, London. Produced by Louis and Ken Brake (who also took the cover photograph of Mt. Misen, Miyajima).