Three Feet from the Moon

by Tim Story

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The first and only US edition on cd, this 1997 reissue was remixed to digital by the artist from the original analog tapes. Includes 2 bonus solo-piano tracks that appeared only on this edition. We have approximately 40 left, while they last...

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1.	Still Life with Lions 04:34	buy track
2.	Here Lies the Water 03:29	buy track
3.	The Emissary 03:50	buy track
4.	Three Feet from the Moon 05:42	buy track
5.	A Fine Line 03:43	buy track
6.	Dirge for a Sunless Day 02:12	buy track
7.	George of the Jungle 03:11	buy track
8.	Tiny Tortures 02:57	buy track
9.	Unbound 04:25	buy track
10.	As Life Was Now 04:00	buy track
11.	The Great Thaw 03:58	buy track
12.	Maggie 05:19	buy track
13.	Bergen 02:28	buy track
14.	Spectrum of Greys 03:05	buy track

about

"Three Feet from the Moon" was my 3rd album for the indie Norwegian label Uniton Records. It was released on vinyl and cassette in 1985, and a Japanese release on Teichiku Records two years later added a cd version. In 1997, I remixed the original multitrack tapes to digital for a cd re-release on Eurock Records (available here), which included 2 additional solo piano pieces from that era. In retrospect, "3 Feet" was a transitional record for me - it straddles the piano-centric compositions of "Untitled", and the denser electronic tone poems that would follow in "Wheat and Rust" and "Glass Green". Since "Untitled" I had added a Memorymoog synthesizer which opened up my palette of sounds considerably. The title came from one of my favorite authors of the time Knut Hamsun (ironically also Norwegian) who wrote that as a struggling young writer in the early days, he had lived in an attic apartment, "...three feet from the moon."

"Each piece is a finely polished jewel, carefully composed and presented, without a note or tone randomly placed." -- Sound Choice, USA

"* * * * ... The subtle use of synthesizer, vibraphone and guitar embellish the sense of eerie wistfulness and more often than not I find myself flicking through old photograph albums, reading those letters... This is the American's third LP and I'm already yearning for the fourth." -- Sounds, UK

"Simply brilliant... his most accomplished, cohesive and musically endearing work to date... not a second on the album is less than immaculate." -- Lotus, UK

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released January 1, 1985

Composed and performed by Tim Story
on synthesizers, grand piano, electric guitar, vibraphone

Recorded 1983-84 at Seventh Chance Studio (my catch-all name for the various locations my studio would occupy over the years. At the time of "3 Feet" this was my apartment on Salisbury Road in Maumee, OH)

Piano recorded at University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
Piano on "Bergen" and "Spectrum of Greys" recorded at the Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle, Toledo, OH

Remixed to digital 1997 from the original analog tapes at Zeta Recording, Holland, OH

Digital files remastered to 32-bit in 2022 by Tim Story

All compositions copyright 1985, published by Seventh Chance Music (BMI)

Original cover design by Tim Story
Cover Illustration by Kelly Hall

Art direction and layout for Eurock reissue by Dwight Ashley.

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