Tea with the Apache
​This is Gil’s third solo album, released on April 04, 2025 with a video for the song Once in a While. The album theme is gratitude and mindfulness, and how things could be in a parallel universe, recognising the unsung heroes of our everyday lives. Gil is indeed eternally grateful to the contributing musicians who have brought to this album a richness and variety in sound and technique.
Massive thanks go to Nivaldo Ornelas, well-known and much-loved Brazilian saxophonist, who kindly recorded solos for 2 tracks, Once in a While and Saviour, thus elevating these pieces to a very special level.
Classically-trained flautist Bruna Caroline Nazário plays virtuoso solos on St Malo, Pied Piper and Fleece, and bassist Sarah Landis supplies an English country dance feel on the acoustic bass on Pied Piper.
Drummer Riaan Esterhuizen appears again, as he has done in the 2 previous albums, and Matt Turner adds a live rock feel on electric bass to Once in a While, My Time With You and Wedgwood Blue.
Harmony vocals are subtley interpreted and sung by Mônica Borges, on Once in a While, Million, Wedgwood Blue and Pão de Lis.
Key tracks are:
“Once in a While” – the theme is of gratitude and mindfulness, recognising the unsung heroes of our everyday lives in a spiritual context. Gil’s concept for the video was interpreted faithfully and with spectacular imagery by Mike Cross.
“St Malo” – this song is a metaphor for one’s search for personal individuality and authenticity in a world which demands conformity. It developed from a dream, but the writing of the song stalled towards the end, when there was no obvious conclusion. Completion finally came about when it was pointed out to Gil that the original causeway between
St Malo and Mont St Michel (which was periodically drowned by the tides, isolating the visitor from the mainland) had been removed and replaced
by a permanent bridge. So a continuum was created between internal and external aspects of personal existence.
“Wedgwood Blue” – this is based on an experience in a restaurant in Congonhas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The message is beyond important - charity cannot be measured by individual wealth, both rich and poor can have a heart.
“Pão de Lis” – written in a cafe in Fontainhas, Portugal, about normal people, vulnerable and otherwise. Noisy – but perfect peace can be achieved.
“Lost in the Shadows” – a song about immigration from Mexico to the USA.
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