Will Gell - Apogee

Apogee

"Apogee" is the name given to the highest point in a celestial orbit. When I wrote the track of this name it just seemed an appropriate title for that piece for some reason and I thought it would be a good title for the album. In many ways I feel that my music has reached it's highest point just now. I hope to get better of course! But for now the work on this album represents a long journey of acquiring the technical knowledge to record successfully to a PC, writing decent compositions and finding even a small number of people who actually like what I do!

All but four of the tracks are purely instrumental. I cannot sing a note! Some of these tracks were written with something specific in mind and others were simply written as "nice little tunes" and nothing more.

God of Night, Fly To Be, Wither and To The End were co-written with my friend Joanna Lero from Poland who sings so wonderfully on these tracks. Her lyrics are written out below.

Lyrics by Joanna Lero

God of Night

I am an actress on my mind's stage
I see the visions of what reality is to me
you so want to come
to play the main role
you call this life
I tell you “you're blind”
I'm the queen of me
you're not the king of us
not even one of us

Your life's so uninviting
get a new one it's so exciting
Watch your mistakes close
Watch the perjury of mind
I normally stand mind-walking on falling lines
Lines covered night
And I am god of night
Telling you your lies

Your life's so uninviting
get a new one it's so exciting
Oh how lonely you're without them
Now it's the time
To see what you were hiding
Take some notes
You will find some new about you
Quit the words
You still repeat the false wills
Of your fake empire

watch your mistakes close
And I am god of night
I am god of night
I am god of night

Fly To Be

now I found my fame
now I am like you
and I'd fly to be the one
I've been growing for far too long

I am taking them
then I fall
only then can I feel your soul

and I'd fly to be
fly to be there
going downwards still I fly in heart away

hate the clouds that swoon so fast
yet I yearn to swim with them
all your words will be forgotten
they will fade but pain will tear

so I'll lay on the ground
feel the earth
wish I saw some real moments there

so I'd fly to the days
cope with breath we'd take
still hear the noise of your fall
last fall, alone

now in silence I will follow your way
now I'm growing with some other flowers
now in silence I have decided to fall with you

and I'd fly to be
fly to be the one
but I grow on your tomb
pulling regrets away

Wither

never oh never again
you won't follow me to see me turning back
I would wither under piercing sun of yours
but the moon came and opened my eyes

it's your time now
to take a bow

people mirror visions that you force
chosen well, you know they want the same
phoney will so answer hides the truth
oh come on snake, you know it is you

look at yourself in their shattered frame
saying things you've said to me back then
fix it yourself, as the pieces break
only days will pass then they fall again

never oh never again
little words can scratch at my door
you could win with a little girl
but now I feel like a 10 feet tall

lustra pękają?
lepiej spuść wzrok
spójrz tam
to twe wizje na podłodze?
zagnij kolana by je podnieść
ukłoń się
jak kiedyś ja

bend your knees like you bend mine
bend your knees like you bend mine

it’s your time
to take a

look at yourself in their shattered frame
saying things you've said to me back then
fix it yourself, as the pieces break
only days will pass then they fall again

never take it away
never never again
never never again
never never again
never gonna take it away
never take it away
never gonna take it away
never never again

To The East	Recorded 2008. Bodhran percussion with Yamaha BB614 electric bass on top of Pentagon 1software synth. Lead and counter melody on Takamine TC132SC
Far Above	Recorded 2007. Pentagon software synth with main fingerstyle pattern played on Yamaha APX 6NA. Counter melodies on Yamaha AES800 electric and Yamaha SLG100S.
Ride To Cheydinhall	Recorded 2007. NI FM7 software synths. Main fingerstyle pattern played on Yamaha APX 6NA. Counter melodies on Yamaha AES800 electric and Yamaha SLG100S. MIDI percussion.
Geetaramundo	Recorded 2007. Latin ensemble drum loop. Yamaha BB614 bass. Main melody played on Yamaha APX 6NA with SLG100S backing. Absynth software synth. Yamaha AES800 lead electric.
God of Night	Recorded 2007. Vocals Joanna Lero. Yamaha SLG1ooS carries a fingerstyle 3 chord modulation throughout. Drum loops, electrc bass and Yamaha AES800 carry main backing. AES800 lead.
Duet in D	Recorded 2008. Takamine TC132SC plays two guitar parts in D.
Apogee	Recorded 2008. MIDI piano and Pentagon 1Software Synths. Takamine TC132SC lead.
For a New Day	Recorded 2008. Pentagon 1software synth backing and Takamine TC132SC lead with counter melody.
Fly To Be	Recorded 2008. Vocals Joanna Lero. Pentagon 1 and NI NM7 soft synths, Yamaha BB614 bass with Takamine TC132SC playing fingerstyle pattern throughout.
This For Your Words	Recorded 2008. Takamine TC132SC solo though Behringer mixer with reverb.
If It Were True	Recorded 2008. Zebra 2 Software synth with Yamaha BB614 bass, Takamine TC132SC lead melody and Schecter Tempest Extreme electric guitar lead.
Out of The Blue	Recorded 2008. Bodhran percussion. Yamaha BB614 bass, Yamaha SLG100S acoustic guitar backing with Crafter mandolin backing and counter melodies. Schecter Tempest Extreme lead electric guitar. Takamine TC132SC counters. CM1 soft synth, MIDI timpani.
Polarity	Recorded 2008. Takamine TC132SC fingerstyle backing with Schecter Tempest Extreme lead electric.
Dance of The Green Man	Recorded 2008. Bodhran and tambourine percussion. Yamaha BB614 bass. Takeharu WT100 folk guitar backing. Crafter mandolin melody and counters. Schecter Tempest Extreme lead electric.
Wither	Recorded 2008. Vocals Joanna Lero. Yamaha BB614 bass. Drum loops. Yamaha SLG100S and Shecter Tempest Extreme backing and lead electric..
To The End	Recorded 2008. Backing vocal Joanna Lero. Takamine TC132SC solo.