A Spring In His Step

Peter Jones has been making elegant sounds as Tiger Moth Tales for almost a full decade, but on his sixth album, he’s decided to go back to basics with a more of a traditional prog rock approach. Here, he discusses the upbeat A Song Of Spring, the perils of setting tight deadlines, and what lies ahead for Camel.

Rich Wilson

Peter Jones is a self-confessed musical hoarder. Writing his own music since the age of 10, the multi-talented Tiger Moth Tales leader has religiously stored away recordings of those tentative sound experiments and will occasionally revisit them for inspiration when cursed with occasional bouts of writer’s block. “There are tracks on this album that have parts on them which are quite old,” he explains. “I used to try and write prog when I was really young and in my early teens. I’ve still got a lot of that stuff and I quite often call upon that if I’m struggling for a bit of inspiration. Even going back as far as being seven or eight I would literally just sit at the piano and just improvise for 10 minutes. I would…

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