Light Years Away, by Joe Heap

Light Years Away

by Joe Heap

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1.	Does the Moment Ever Come? 03:21	info	buy track
2.	Someone to Fall Back On 04:30	info	buy track
3.	And the Rain Keeps Falling Down 04:26	info	buy track
4.	Anthem 03:13	info	buy track
5.	One Day More 03:25	info	buy track
6.	Light Years Away 03:32	info	buy track
7.	Bring Him Home 03:34	info	buy track
8.	Hushabye Mountain 02:46	info	buy track

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Why buy it?

Well, apart from the fact that you will hopefully get some joy from listening I wanted to put this out in memory of my lovely Nan, with all profits from your generous purchase of this “vanity” project going to www.alzheimers.org.uk.

Sheila Manners was a simply brilliant Nan and human being. She looked after me so much when I was growing up. Fed me, taught me to swim, taught me history and about nature and most importantly taught me how to simply be. How to be in life! How to listen and not judge. How to share and care and give without expecting anything back.

Sadly, in her latter years Nanny the Great (as she became known) suffered terribly with Alzheimer’s and we lost the real Sheila a long time before her body gave in. This terrible condition robbed her, and us of the last few years and so I want to raise what I can through the sales of this album to help support the work toward treatment, support and a cure.

How did this thing come to be?

This project (and it is a project…not a proper album by any means) is, very simply, a collection of just some of the hundreds of songs I have sung through the 47 years (on and off) I have been singing songs. In all that time I have recorded vocals for others, helped produce for others, sang on stages, at weddings, funerals, parties and mostly in my own company. But I have never recorded just me! So for my kids and their kids to come, this is what I sounded like when I could still sing a bit.

11 years ago, after a 12-year hiatus from my acting career I stepped, somewhat nervously back onto stage with an amazing bunch of fellows as we staged the brilliant Sweeney Todd by the late, great Stephen Sondheim.

One of those lovely folks was the simply amazing Katherine Tye. A beautiful soul with an equally brilliant musical brain. Sometime after the show I asked her if she would play a few songs for me; songs I thought I might record one day. We sang a couple of these songs the next week and I thought “Great, I’ll knock out a collection of songs in no time”.

8 Songs that have taken me 11 years to finally record and deliver here. Life got in the way…that’s my excuse. I will probably not make another album of musical theatre songs, so this represents where I got to on that particular journey.

Completely self-made with the help of some brilliant friends, I have learned so much about just how hard it is to produce music. The singing is the easy bit! I take my hat off to all the brilliant artists (a few of whom I have worked with here) and the brilliant producers (one of whom I have worked with here) who have produced so much wonderful music over the years.

Joe Heap

April 2023

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released April 7, 2023

The Players and People:

Vocals – Me (Joe Heap)
Musical Direction, Arrangements, Piano and Vocals – Katherine Tye
String Arrangements – Sarah Huson-Whyte
Strings – Highly Strung String Quartet
Guitar and Bass – David Dellare
Various Percussion - Me
Recorded and Produced by me and ich Mowatt (Sounding Post)
Mixed by ich Mowatt (Sounding Post)
Recorded in my office, David’s House and Sounding Post Studios
Design (of a sort) - Me

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