Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest
Labels
- Parlophone / EMI (UK )
- Capitol Records (USA)
Occupation
- Paul McCartney: Acoustic Bass, Flute, Banjo
- Youth: mixing and sampling of songs
Studios
- Hog Hill Mill Studios, Sussex
Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest is the first album of the duo The Fireman, consisting of Paul McCartney and Youth. At the same time, it is including the Wings albums, classic albums, live albums and compilations, the twenty-sixth album Paul McCartney after the breakup of the Beatles. It was released on November 15, 1993 in the UK and on 22 February 1994 in the U.S..
Formation
After the completion of his solo album Off the Ground McCartney had to let the idea to make several blends based on the songs of the album. It should essentially be called " dance remixes ", which should Youth, aka Martin Glover mix. In early October 1992, the work in the Hog Hill Mill Studios by Paul McCartney in Sussex, in the Youth with the sound engineer Chris Potter and the programmer Matt Austin of the songs from the album began produced Off the Ground samples and new mixes produced, then were spoken words of the songs the broadcast and reception, both of which date from the Wings album Back to the Egg, as well as " Mellotron loops " are used. Paul McCartney played a more acoustic bass, flute and banjo, which was also used for the mixes. After four days the album on October 11, 1992 was completed and released on 15 November 1993 under the pseudonym The Fireman.
The idea behind the naming is that the father of Paul McCartney during the Second World War was supportive firefighter. Due to the use of a pseudonym, it was known only to a few potential buyers that the two members of The Fireman and Youth Paul McCartney were such that the sales of the album turned out small.
Youth was to publish with the idea of an album that essentially several variations of the same song includes not satisfied, as it could be disappointing in his opinion while listening.
The album was also released as a vinyl double album in clear vinyl.
The cover
The album cover is exclusively red. On the front cover is in the upper right corner: strawber while continued on the back cover in the upper left corner of the title as follows: cried oceans ships forest.
Title list
All songs were written by Paul McCartney and Youth.
Information about individual songs
For the song Trans Lunar Rising a sample of the song Nothing to Fear by Chris Rea with the text line " I hear your voice in dusty whisper" was used.
Single releases
In November 1993, released in the UK the limited edition 12 " vinyl single Transpiritual Stomp / Arizona Light Mix.
Chart positions
Reissues
- The album has been remastered not new.
- In June 2011, the album was released in download format.