Pure Magic, by Virgin Twin

Pure Magic

by Virgin Twin

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1.	What It Means 03:19	lyrics	buy track
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2.	Flipside 02:49	lyrics	buy track
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3.	Unexpected Things 02:14	lyrics	buy track
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4.	I Had to Knock It on the Head 04:11	lyrics	buy track
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5.	Imagineering 03:04	lyrics	buy track
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6.	Mirror in the Man 04:47	lyrics	buy track
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7.	Brain 04:46	lyrics	buy track
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8.	One Perfect Flower 04:19	lyrics	buy track
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9.	Wooden Boy 06:04	lyrics	buy track
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10.	Playing Jesus 05:19	lyrics	buy track
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11.	The Right Tool for the Right Job 06:21	lyrics	buy track
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12.	My Lucky Rabbit's Foot 02:51	lyrics	buy track
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13.	One-Hit Wonder 05:34	lyrics	buy track
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14.	War No More 05:06	lyrics	buy track
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15.	Mountain Flight (In Retrospect) 03:30	lyrics	buy track
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16.	(track 16) 09:38	info	buy track

about

This is the third and final album by Virgin Twin, the ongoing collaboration between myself and Jon-Ross, who flew from this earth on 20 March 2017 – 7 months and 11 days ago, as of the eve of this typing.

I am deeply indebted to my good friend and collaborator (and massive Jon-Ross and Virgin Twin fan) John Crewdson, for his support and his ears in co-producing and mixing the final album. His creativity and enthusiasm for the project have helped immeasurably in finishing this record the way J-R and I would have wanted, and there is no way the finished album would sound anywhere near as good as it does without his contributions.

Without a doubt, this album would be very different if Jon-Ross had lived to see it completed. I have done my best to honour everything we believed in, about the album, about the project, about each other, about life, the universe, and everything. And most of all, about music, and the cosmic gift of our collaboration.

Peace and love on you, all you beautiful Earthlings out there spinning our tunes. Ever forward.
- Edward

(Full liner notes available in pdf, free with album download.)

credits

released November 1, 2017

Virgin Twin
Jon-Ross & Edward of Sim

Pure Magic
Produced and Mixed by Virgin Twin & John Crewdson

All words and music by Jon-Ross Habina and Edward Keller except where noted.

1. What It Means (Habina)
2. Flipside
3. Unexpected Things
4. I Had to Knock It on the Head (Keller)
5. Imagineering
6. Mirror in the Man
7. Brain (Habina)
8. One Perfect Flower
9. Wooden Boy
10. Playing Jesus
11. The Right Tool for the Right Job
12. My Lucky Rabbit’s Foot
13. One-Hit Wonder
14. War No More
15. Mountain Flight (In Retrospect)

All tracks composed, arranged, performed, and recorded by J-R and EoS, between summer 2003 and autumn 2017, with special guest appearance by Ian Ashworth (tracks 9 and 16). As usual with us, these are home recordings, created using stone knives and bearskins, although they were for the most part the highest quality stone knives and bearskins we’ve ever had available to us.

Album cover is an original artwork by J-R; EoS just added the band name and album title.

Final mastering was done by EoS.

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Virgin Twin Lancashire, UK

Virgin Twin was the decades-long musical collaboration of the late, great Jon-Ross Habina and Edward Keller (a.k.a. Edward of Sim).

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