The Glare (su David McAlmont)
Michael Nyman

Apie šį "nerealų" projektą toliau rašanti spauda teigia, kad:

Michael Nyman and David McAlmont first met at the Freud Museum in London in the summer of 2000. /.../

They recollected their first encounter and quickly began plotting a collaboration.Michael mentioned that he was totally unable to write his own song texts and David realised that he had become bored with 'the navel-gazing futility of writing love songs about his own feelings' and at 40 wanted to create something more worthwhile with his lyric writing/.../

David wrote new songs based on contemporary news stories over pre-existing Nyman compositions. McAlmont's subject matter explores pertinent subjects as varied as 21st century piracy (Going to America), trafficked prostitution in Europe (City of Turin), sexually-charged world leaders (In Rai Don Giovanni), assisted suicide (Friendly Fire), reality television (The Glare is about Susan Boyle of X Factor fame), African orphan migration (Fever Sticks and Bones), banking errors (Take the Money and Run)and drug mules (In Laos).

David felt strongly that the songs were most effective if written from the first person point of view of the individual characters discovered in the researched reports to create an emotional engagement with the subjects that is lost by the time their stories emerge in the glare of the 24 hour news media. This process of course caused initial concern for McAlmont because he was taking already brilliant compositions, adding to and adjusting them. But fortunately, Michael Nyman was delighted with the result.

štai ką apie šį vienintelį M.Nyman vokalinį/instrumentalinį albumą rašo BBC spauda:

"an album which told the human tales behind a dozen small newspaper stories with elegance, grace and heartbreaking poignancy: each song based on news stories from around the world. He put himself in the shoes of figures from Susan Boyle to a Nigerian prostitute in a people-trafficking ring to Silvio Berlusconi's lover."

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