I thought it would never stop raining

the night I met Marius De Vries

Derek Birkett, owner of One Little Indian records, introduced me to him. Marius had worked and is friends with Bjork and he was interested in working on a few tracks with me.

Derek drove me down to Cambridge to meet him at some hotel and we hit it off instantly. Marius is a charming and sweet person and working with him is always an adventure.

I played Marius an idea that I had been programmed on my sequencer. I had been really enjoying making string harmonies with my new toy and had written this one track with an unusual swelling string part and a flute sound which wove in and out of the strings. I still had no words or vocal melody, so Marius started working on a beat for it and some other percussion.

Marius and I are both interested in Magic and and we wanted the song to have a dreamy, spell like voodoo feel. We had a lot of fun working on that song, it became Beautiful Boy. A spell song, designed to capture the heart of a Beautiful Boy ! We finished it in L.A. later when I was over there with Rick Nowels, recording the rest of Tiger Mouth.

Marius played me a track he'd been working on that I fell in love with. It was very laid back and reminded me of the lull after a summer storm. Instantly, I thought 'raindrops are falling' was the first line of this song, but because the groove was so easy and breezy, I wanted the song to be cool and lazy and brooding, so I added, 'but I don't mind' to the first line. That song became Sunlight in the Rain.

It was a great start to Tiger Mouth for sure and I felt that I was finally on my way to getting a record together.