New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Ride guitarist and songwriter Andy Bell has released 'The Grounding Process', the second in his series of three EPs. It is out now on all digital platforms, with the limited-edition 10" vinyl version following on 25th November.
'The Grounding Process' features stripped-down acoustic versions of songs from Andy's second solo album, 'Flicker', which was released to great acclaim back in February. Originally recorded for various radio sessions, they have been mastered by Heba Kadry.
Andy shared a video for the acoustic version of 'She Calls The Tune' last night via Mastodon - the new social media platform that Twitter users are defecting to following Elon Musk's controversial takeover.
Andy talks us through the history of the five tracks (four on the vinyl version) that make up the EP: "'Something Like Love' is the most popular song from Flicker and one of the oldest, starting life in the '90s. It's probably the only one that dates back to the Ride era.
"The riffs for 'World Of Echo' were written while I was on tour with Oasis, at the height of my La's obsession. It went through a few iterations from then onwards, but never had a final melody until last year.
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