Ray Wilson to Release 6th Solo Album Makes Me Think Of Home
Makes
Me Think Of Home,
the 6th solo studio album from former Stiltskin and Genesis
frontman, Ray Wilson, will be released on 7 October. This release comes hot on the heels of Song For A Friend, an acoustic album
released earlier this year and which garnered great reviews.
Makes
Me Think Of Home is a mix of pop, rock and prog which showcases Ray’s
remarkable voice. The title track sees
Ray looking back to his days living in Scotland, a country he left after
finding love with a Polish dancer. He
moved to Poznan 8 years ago, and in this ambitious and very moving track he
reflects on his years trying to find peace and happiness in Edinburgh.
The album also contains subtle humour;
particularly in the first single “Amen To That”. The track is accompanied by a multi-layered
video production in which Ray showcases his acting skills as he takes on multiple
characters in a range of unusual professions.
The intense 7-day shoot produced what is undoubtedly the best video of
Ray’s career and which takes the instantly memorable “Amen To That” to another
level, throwing in some unexpected twists along the way.
The album also touches on complex
contemporary Scottish issues such as The Scottish Referendum with "They
Never Should Have Sent You Roses”, exploring how it divided families and a
nation. Also, widespread alcoholism, which affected one of Ray's close family
members, is challenged in "The Next Life”, and having to fight these
demons alone in "Anyone Out There".
He also has time to pay homage to one of
the world’s best-loved cartoon strips with “Calvin and Hobbes”.
Reflecting on his latest work, Ray says, “Makes
Me Think of Home encompasses the joy of freedom we have all come to enjoy
and perhaps take for granted as well as the fear of solitude. It highlights the
many imperfections that make us special and reminds us not to fear them, but to
embrace them. In the words of Leonard Cohen. "There is a crack in
everything. That's how the light gets in".
Makes Me Think of Home full Tracklist:
1. Never Should Have Sent You Roses
2. The Next Life
3. Tennessee Mountain
4. Worship The Sun
5. Makes Me Think Of Home
6. Amen To That
7. Anyone
Out There
8. Don't Wait For
9. Calvin And Hobbes
10. The Spirit
Makes Me Think
of Home
Release date 7 October
Catalogue number - RAY
08
NH