M&M’s Blog – Michael Holland Music

Here’s a flashback for you….

The song is called FLY. I found the final stereo recording a few months ago, of a song I came up with back in 1992, and I like what I had, despite the rather off-key vocals and the occasional flaws in the balance!

Have given it a bit of a remix so here it is in all it’s psychedelic glory

I recorded this in 1992 at Battery so I’m mostly stuck with my stereo mix from 1992 but hearing it today I was inspired to write a full orchestration this summer (think “Live and Let Die”) just for the hell of it which was fun to assemble overdubbing the various sections a bit at a time with great sample libraries.

Here’s the back story. In 1992 I had booked some studio time as a producer at Battery Studios.in London UK, where I worked as a full-time producer/engineer for Jive Records, Silvertone Records, Coombe Music International, and various indie album and single projects.

I wrote this song, both words and music, over a drum track I recorded of my fellow band member Rob Milne (the band was called The Hand), who was playing a different song altogether. All other instruments were played by me. Although I can’t hear them and only used the drums, there is faint spill into the drum mics from Psymon King and Danny DiMento playing guitars for a different song so it’s awesome that although I muted their work on the other song when printing a mix of my new song, my excellent friends and fellow Hand (my old band) members are all in there in spirit, although I can only ever so faintly hear a trace of a guitar part that isn’t me. All vocals are me. The song was written, engineered and produced by me too. Hope the Hand in particular like it…. Rob is just the loudest LOL

Here are the lyrics.

“FLY” (Michael Holland)

You and I will ride upon

The silver wings of a unicorn

As the day becomes the dawn, it’s easy

Wished that we were far away

Another shore on another day

Look how far we’ve flown today, it’s easy

And I believe that you will find

In the cracks between Space and Time

A place to fly, it’s in your mind, it’s easy

Fly…