Morganway: Open Fund for Music Creators
Capturing Morganway’s live, raw sound in the Welsh wilderness
We’ve always had a dream to make an album in the traditional way, one studio, one period of time, no distractions. The last two years have deepened that desire, not only through the periods when we couldn’t all be together, but also, with all our touring pre and post-pandemic, we’ve always felt too busy. And then, of course, there’s the cost. Until now we’ve recorded during stints between tours or lockdowns, sometimes self-engineering at home on a laptop. We’ve never had the opportunity to be fully immersed in making an album in one place, for one moment in time, all together.
To be awarded this grant by PRS For Music is not only incredibly encouraging and inspiring, it also allows us to pursue this dream. The brief? Record in a beautiful, isolated studio, far from distractions, for seven days straight, and whatever we capture there is the record. Minimal overdubs. No laptops. Live. Most of our favourite albums were done this way. It’s risky, it’s spontaneous, it’s exciting – like being in Morganway! We want to take that approach into the studio. Jackson Browne still calls albums records because he believes they are “records of events”. They’re the sound of something that happened, and the record is the proof. We receive this grant with such gratitude and appreciation and our record will be the proof. And it’s happening for us right now because of hard work, faith and love, and, crucially, because of PRS for Music.