Clouds of Saint Marie (Reimagined by Pêtr Aleksänder)

Today we reveal the first two songs from a brand new collaborative version of This Is Not A Safe Place, called Clouds in the Mirror, which is the entirety of our latest album reimagined by Pêtr Aleksänder.
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The concept for the collaboration was originally conceived in the early days of 2019 when members of Ride contacted Pêtr Aleksänder - AKA duo Tom Hobden (of Noah & The Whale) and producer Eliot James (Two Door Cinema Club) - after falling for the swelling strings, expansive sounds and gentle crescendos of their album, Closer, Still. A mutual appreciation of sweeping, cinematic post-rock was established and over a series of email exchanges a dialogue evolved around reinterpreting the tracks on This Is Not A Safe Space using only the vocals as a guide.
Andy Bell says: ‘Pêtr Aleksänder took our album’s vocal tracks and formed an entirely new album around them, and the results are inspired, often really beautiful, and at times, totally mental. They have crafted a delicate web of string and synthesiser arrangements which draws you into a whole other world than our version of the album. I love what they’ve created.’
Pêtr Aleksänder say: ‘Reimagining Ride’s album was a treat. We took a rather unusual approach: although fans of Ride in the first instance, we nevertheless resisted listening to anything other than each track's main vocal before setting to work, beginning exclusively with string and piano arrangements inspired by the main vocal. Focusing on the sentiment of the vocal and re-interpreting it with our own arrangements resulted in combinations of melody, harmony and emotion that would have been very hard to achieve via a more conventional songwriting / composing approach. We even waited until the band had released the album before choosing to listen to the songs in their original state - a strange experience for us given that we knew our versions of the same songs so well by that point!’
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[@Elephantstonica]

The whole album reimagined, all off the back of the vocals? Ingenious. Sounds pretty good too.

[@Zonk420]

I didn’t notice how good the vocals were on this track

[@chaunavegante]

Awesome version.

[@petehughes6266]

This is just beautiful

[@lucidmonkey3591]

Very cool ! Love my ride

[@christopherbenincasa326]

So dope.

[@alcaloid3]

Awesome 😻

[@LianandDodayvlog]

Thanks for sharing new frirnd here

[@judylovesmusic8706]

Lovely!! Just want to keep hitting replay.💖

[@andrewbird9721]

Love Ride but they've taken the track and removed the best bit (Andy Bell's guitar work). It seems somewhat soulless now.

[@paulbarnabas3417]

The original Ride beats this hands down.

[@geelucky13]

Dont mess with original RIDE ! this sucks.

[@marc_anton]

Listen to the original then... That's the great thing about choice.