Winds Of Change
From the personal lyrics to the focus on the acoustic guitar, Peter Jones has gone back to basics with his latest Tiger Moth Tales album, The Turning Of The World. But as the multi-instrumentalist and vocalist tells Prog, it’s an album that he needed to write.
Words: Chris Cope Images: Andrew Lawson
“Nine years I’ve been doing this prog stuff, and I still have to pinch myself and think that people actually want to come and pay to hear this.”
“I’ve been saying to everybody, and I probably should stop saying it because it’s probably going to put some people off… but it’s not the proggiest album that I’ve done,” says Tiger Moth Tales mainman Peter Jones somewhat sheepishly about his new record, The Turning Of The World. “But it was just an album I felt I had to write.”
Sometimes, needs must. With lyrics often focusing on the rudimental topic of coming to terms with the constant cogs of change, and songwriting that stemmed from the six strings of an acoustic guitar rather than any elaborate keyboard wizardry, it’s fair to say Tiger Moth Tales’ eighth album merits the stripped-back tag despite being labelled the “companion” to 2020’s The Whispering Of The World.