The Fetch (Linda Hoyle album)
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| Studio album by Linda Hoyle | ||||
| Released | 7 August 2015 | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
| Length | 59:22 | |||
| Label | Angel Air | |||
| Producer | Mo Foster | |||
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The Fetch is the second album by Linda Hoyle, released by Angel Air on 7 August 2015. The album was produced by her long time friend and former bandmate Mo Foster. On 29 June 2015 Hoyle released a promotional video for the album's first track, "The Fetch".
Though Hoyle and Foster had remained good friends since working together in the early 1970s, it was not until 40 years later that they decided to write and record together again. The impetus for this was a performance (released as The Baskervilles Reunion 2011) at Sussex University's 50th anniversary celebration. With Hoyle living in Canada and Foster in the UK it was difficult to negotiate a working process, so it is not surprising that The Fetch took nearly three years to make. Logic Pro and Pro Tools were vital ingredients in the success of the project, though few of the musicians found working under these circumstances an optimal procedure. Although most recording is now undertaken in this way, the separation of musician from musician requires enormous attention to rhythmic detail and cohesion. After about a year of recording, Foster and Roger Wake, who was the recording engineer on Pieces of Me, travelled to Canada to mix the album over a two-week period. Wake then mastered the final mix in his studio in Lisbon. For more details, see Tom Semioli's "From Affinity to the Fetch: My Conversation With Linda Hoyle and Mo Foster" and Alan D. Boyd's video "Linda Hoyle: The Fetch", describing the making of the album.
In 1969 Roger Dean was involved with the Ronnie Scott organization as an album artist and designer. Hoyle and Foster, both in Affinity at that time, were also with the organization, so shared common ground. When working on The Fetch forty four years later, it seemed natural to ask Dean if he was interested in producing the cover art for the album. The cover art, finished at the last moment, required a final all night effort by the Angel Air production team.
"Ronnie Scott asked me to paint my first ever album cover in 1968", recalls Dean, "the year I left college (RCA). I was designing the seating for his discotheque at the time and he was looking through my sketch book. Ronnie Scott went on to ask me to design album covers for quite a few bands, but never Affinity, which was a pity because I really liked their music. Keef (Keith MacMillan) did a very good job of their [album] cover but I like nearly everybody who saw it wrongly assumed the photo on the cover was Linda, she recently informed me that it was not! So when Linda and Mo asked me, I was very pleased to work on The Fetch, I loved the title and the music. The definition of Fetch gave me a lot of scope. I wanted to take the notion of a wraith out of the human and personal into something architectural and landscape in scale. Something that was moving and ethereal but that gave the sense that you could walk around and explore but to not loose all the sinister qualities of the Fetch."
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