Stand Alone Together

Universal Dot to Dot

04 Universal Dot To Dot

Track 5 from the debut album Stand Alone Together by AREA 39 

Changing Horizon

05 Changing Horizon

2nd album by AREA 39 titled Adaptations.

Featuring Alissa Tissingh on vocals, Andy Mapp on drums, Chris Greer on programmed percussion, Samuel Turrell & Heather Rymer narration on V & Raymond Turrell on guitars, bass guitar, orchestral composition & production.

Lyrics by 
Dave Barlow, Denise Pickersgill, Heather Rymer & Raymond Turrell

Thanks to
Cleo Harratt for original vocal melodies tracks 2 & 4, edited lyrics on track 4.
Samuel Hylands & George Williams for original vocal melodies on track 3.
Alex Ward Robinson for AREA 39 logo.
Martin Bonde for CD sleeve.
Gyles Tempest for musical knowledge, chit chat & coffee.

Adaptations

No 2nd Chance

04 No 2nd Chance (Feat Alissa Tissingh)

Titanic

03 Titanic (Feat Alissa Tissingh)

Fractions of Forgotten Moments

02 Fractions Of Forgotten Moments (Feat Alissa Tissingh)

01 V (Feat Alissa Tissingh)

Track 1 from the debut album by UK rockers AREA 39

The Dreamer Dreams

01 The Dreamer Dreams

Track 3 from the debut album by UK rockers AREA 39.

Through the Eye of a Telescope

03 Through The Eye of a Telescope

This is the last track from the debut album by UK rockers AREA 39.

The Dreamers Dreamed

06 The Dreamers Dreamed

Original track by AREA 39 taken from the debut cd Stand Alone Together.

Beyond the Clouds

02 Beyond The Clouds

I enjoy composing & producing music in my home studio. Having been turn on to music by the like of Iron Maiden, early Black Sabbath, Ozzy, Megadeth & Queen heavy rock/metal was the original direction I took when I sat down to try to compose my first tunes.

Pink Floyd found a way into my life & also a way into my creative thought process and this was a big turning point for me, the Floyd showed me that verse chorus etc was not all that music could be. I soon started playing with sounds & sound fxs, the world of music had just become so much bigger...........& better.

More bands followed, Gong, Marillion, & the absolutely out of this world Ozric Tentacles all reinforcing the verse chorus 4 minute song is not for everyone.

Finally around 2003 I set out to record what would become my first album/EP Stand Alone Together, id come up with a theme surrounding the 1969 moon landing & how a good % of people believe the mission was a hoax & I wanted to try & tell this story using music. With my Floyd & Maiden influences in hand I set out to piece together some demos I had recording over the previous few years.

I managed to find a really good group of musicians & vocalists to work with who helped massively in the final out come of Stand Alone Together.

The album went on to sell well worldwide through my Myspace page & I also managed to gain plenty of radio airplay along with a handful of interviews, for someone like myself this was a great success & I was over the moon with what we had achieved up to this point. 

Due to family & work life music took a back seat up to 2009 when I finally decided to form a live version of AREA 39 & take Stand Alone Together on the road, the live band just like the studio band was full of great musicians & a great vocalist. We managed to perform a good run of UK live dates before I decided it was time for some new music.

It took between 2012 & 2020 for the next album to be composed & recorded but this time I managed to record all guitars, bass & orchestral parts myself bringing in yet again another great vocalist, well actually she was out of this world & I also brought in really great rock drummer.

This time the vibe was very much more a rock/orchestral sound & with tunes about the Titanic & the Dambusters I decided to call the album Adaptations. The full album is now available on soundcloud free to download.

Here we are now in 2023 so lets see what happens next.

AREA 39

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