Lily's Gone Mad, by Doug Woods and Colin Powell

Lily's Gone Mad

by Doug Woods and Colin Powell

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1.	Presenting Miss Lily Louise Pepper 04:14	buy track
2.	Lily Dreams 02:18	buy track
3.	Lily Wakes Up 05:30	buy track
4.	The Shop of Mysterious Gifts 05:39	buy track
5.	Challis Juneberry 05:22	buy track
6.	Lily's Longing 04:07	buy track
7.	In Lily's Head 02:40	buy track
8.	What Happened to Hildreth 06:50	buy track
9.	Lily Gets Upset 02:24	buy track
10.	Lily Turns a Corner 04:43	buy track
11.	Lily Takes a Boat 02:44	buy track
12.	Lily Takes a Train 03:48	buy track
13.	Taking Care of Uncle Floyd 05:04	buy track
14.	Lily Comes Home 04:14	buy track

about

During the recording of our previous album, Radio, which featured American composer and musician, Dave Lionelli, we decided it would be interesting to record a whole album with Dave and we called the collaboration project Lily's Gone Mad, which also became the title and subject of the album.

It was a fun album to make, with Dave adding a funkier groove and 80s vibes to the Doug Woods and Colin Powell electronic/retro Proggy style.

We shared composition duties and instruments, with more crossover than usual on our albums, since Dave is a wonderful keyboard player as well as bass and lead guitarist. So all of us played just about everything at some point!

Here is a storyline that fits with the tracks on the album but feel free to make up your own as you follow Lily's journey:

Lily Louise Pepper is 23 and a Dreamer. She wakes up every day and goes to work for a strange man called Challis Juneberry in his Shop Of Mysterious Gifts.
Challis has (had?) a wife called Hildreth who is never seen any more. Challis calls Lily “Miss Lily”.

Lily feels lonely at the shop and she longs for something different.

Lily's sole living relative is her uncle, Floyd Pepper, a retired musician and vaudevillian who has been living in a retirement community in Surrey since the theater closed. Surrey is a boat and then a train ride away from where Lily lives. She often thinks about what Floyd used to be back in the good old days, before life and age took hold of him and made him more a brick around her neck than a person.

In her head she wonders about what happened to the unseen Hildreth and also thinks about her responsibility to Uncle Floyd, who she has to make such an effort to visit. Lily longs to be able to live her own life. She could be so much more if she was not tied to the shop and visiting her uncle.

Lily then feels guilty and gets upset and eventually has a breakdown as her emotions are ripped apart. Is she losing her grip?

Lily boards the train for the umpteenth time but this time there is a moment of clarity as Lily Turns a Corner. She makes one final visit to Uncle Floyd and “takes care of him”. Maybe she found him a nice nursing home? Maybe something else happened?

Lily then returns home with a new sense of purpose in life. Who knows where it will take her?

credits

released July 21, 2018

All tracks feature Doug Woods, Colin Powell and Dave Lionelli but it is too difficult, and probably unnecessary, to state exactly who contributed what!

Doug and Colin would like to thank Dave Lionelli for his huge contribution to this album. It was a pleasure to work with you.

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Doug Woods and Colin Powell UK

Doug Woods is well known to the iOS music making community for his iPad app demos on The Soundtestroom. It was one of these demos that inspired Colin Powell (aka A Multitude of One and Alter Ego UK) to join forces with Doug and create music together.

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