Some lovely saxophone and mandolin here. I wrote this song to be sung by a woman, but eventually I had to strap on some panties and sing it myself.

04 - -Man.WAV

We are the ship and life is the journey. The treasure is within, and you end up where you started.

05 - -Precious Cargo.WAV

Listen out for the saxophone at the end! A cheery song about death.

06 - -Happy Embers.WAV

From El Duende's new album "Making Storms"
Instrumental featuring the wonderful sax playing of Michael Linney. One of my favourites on the album. It’s in the Phrygian mode, which gives it an Eastern flavour.

07 - -Arabian Whale.WAV

From El Duende's new album "Making Storms"
An ode to atheism. Love the instrumentation at the finale.

08 - -Held Up To The Light.WAV

From El Duende's new album "Making Storms"
I always try to sing this like Dusty Springfield. A song about addiction and domestic violence.

09 - -All The Way Down.WAV

From El Duende's new album "Making Storms"
I have a big vault of songs, and some of them demand to be heard. This was one of those, which I originally did with the Fops in about 1990, but it never made it to a recording. Love the brass and the honky tonk piano. The song owes a little something to X, of whom I was a big fan and a sometimes roadie.

10 - -Hidebound.WAV

From El Duende's new album "Making Storms"
Lovely sax on this one, and the 6/4 time gives it some interest. I stole the end chord sequence from an Oasis song, but I think it is well disguised.

12 - -Made To Last.WAV

From El Duende's new album "Making Storms"
I think the lyrics are very good on this one : “Velazquez beauty, the shimmer dance… Your wild-wind ways and their consequence…” Nice sax solo at the end too, always fires up my blood on stage

13 - -Misrule.WAV

From El Duende's new album "Making Storms"
This one goes through a few moods, starting up a little funky, getting rocky and passionate then all lovely and orchestral at the end. Features some really nice brass and piano. The title of the album comes from this song.

Daniel Morphett