Enio has placed the last finishing touches on the album, let his partner listen to the entire thing to make sure he liked it, and now…(da da da DA!) the album is COMPLETE!!
That’s right, 11 tracks: 2 cover songs and 9 originals, with help from Enio’s closest friends. Brilliant New York-based poet (and soon to be brilliant New York-based young adults author) contributed some beautiful lyrics for Enio to work with. Enio wrote a song from Billy’s poem “To My Dad, Parents, Family” featured in his poetry memoir “Talking in the Dark” available here. The song perfectly encapsulates how Enio feels about his family these days and because both he and Billy both loved the song, decided to include it on “Today”. Billy also contributed a beautiful poem that was re-worked to become the tracks “Good to Each Other” and “The Table” with additional lyrics by Enio.
Antonella Scali also contributed some songwriting abilities for the album. Antonella (coincidentally Enio’s best man at his wedding) helped co-write the tune “We Go Together (Like Hats & Scarves)”–an upbeat, occasionally silly little ditty that the duo wrote back in 2008 in support of their long-awaited Gordon’s Whine Bar debut.
Also contributing songwriting skills is Enio’s long-time music pal Caroline Brooks of Good Lovelies fame. Enio and Caroline wrote “Nothing Closer” originally titled “The Whole of Me” (but changed for this album for obvious reasons), back in 2006. Originally featuring much different (more sexual) sentiments, Enio tweaked most of the lyrics for the verses to reflect how Enio feels about his partner–also, in an attempt to make it more family appropriate as both their parents will be listening to the album. The chorus and the bridge remain in tact from the songs original incarnation.
Enio also dipped into cover territory for TODAY. Sade’s 2000 classic “By Your Side” has always touched Enio, so he decided to cover it here–the song will most likely be the couple’s wedding song. “I have always loved this song. It is the epitome of what I consider to be a great love song, embodying support, love, kindness and strength, without being too schmatlzy or Glee-ish.”
Enio also decided to record his version of The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven”, a song he played for his friend on her wedding day in March of 2010. The rendition was such a hit, and the album being about weddings, family and friends, that its inclusion here just seemed logical.
The tracklisting for the album is as follows:
1. I Have You On My Mind (You’re In There All The Time)
2. By Your Side
3. We Go Together (Like Hats & Scarves)
4. Nothing Closer
5. Each Year
6. To My Dad, Parents, Family
7. The Table
8. Just Like Heaven
9. Today
10. Good To Each Other
11. Hanging Out With Venus
The album’s first single is also the first song on the album “I Have You On My Mind (You’re In There All The Time)”. The song is a bouncy call back to the pop hits of the 50s and 60s, written about the newlywed’s increasing anticipation of the momentous day. You can listen to the song here:
