Morcheeba is an English electronic band formed in the mid-1990s with foundi… Read Full Bio ↴Morcheeba is an English electronic band formed in the mid-1990s with founding members vocalist Skye Edwards and the brothers Paul and Ross Godfrey. They mix influences from trip hop, rock, folk rock and downtempo, and have produced nine regular studio albums since 1995, two of which reached the UK top ten.[1] Edwards left the band in 2003, after which the brothers used a number of singers before she rejoined in 2009. They recruit additional members for their live performances and have toured internationally. In 2014 Paul Godfrey resigned from the band. Edwards and Ross Godfrey later formed Skye | Ross and released a self-titled album in September 2016.[2] Their latest studio album as Morcheeba, Blaze Away, was released in June 2018.[3]

Beginnings
Originally from the small town of Saltwood,[4] just north of Hythe, Kent, the Godfrey brothers—DJ/producer Paul Godfrey and multi-instrumentalist Ross Godfrey—moved to London when they were in their late teens.[5][6][7][8] Sometime in the mid 1990s, at a party in Greenwich, the brothers met Skye Edwards, who was singing backup in a funk band, and also played guitar; before too long the three began recording songs together, and formed the trio Morcheeba.[4][9] At first they produced tracks at their home studio,[4] together with engineer Pete Norris.[8][10]

They were eventually signed to China Records[4] by Angus Blair (A&R) and the band released their debut Trigger Hippie EP,[11] in October 1995. At the same time, Paul Ablett came on board as manager.[10] The band's debut album, Who Can You Trust?, was released in April 1996 and fitted into the trip hop genre through a combination of Paul Godfrey's hip hop roots, Ross Godfrey's psychedelic rock influences and Edwards' soul-styled vocals. A second single, "Tape Loop", appeared in July 1996. The band began to play live around Europe and North America,[12] with a live band that included five additional members.[13] At this point, the band had outgrown the home recording set-up and the brothers purchased their own studio.[14] In 1997, they contributed to the David Byrne album Feelings, participating in the recording and production of the release.[8][15][16]

Mainstream success
With a more professional recording set-up, the brothers began developing their ideas for a second album. Much of the material had already been written, and, with Norris involved again, the band moved towards a more mainstream sound.[14] At the same time, Edwards appeared on the BBC charity single "Perfect Day". The follow-up, 1998's Big Calm, moved away from trip hop towards a more pop-oriented, song-based sound. This was exemplified by the band's reworking of "Moog Island" (from their debut) into the pop-song "The Music That We Hear".[17] One of the album's singles, "The Sea", became a radio favourite. The album proved to be a big seller and ensured Morcheeba's success as a breakthrough act.[18] In 1998, Morcheeba collaborated with Hubert Laws to record the classic song "Summer Time" for the Red Hot Organization's compilation album Red Hot + Rhapsody, a tribute to George Gershwin, which raised money for various charities devoted to increasing AIDS awareness and fighting the disease.

In 2000, Morcheeba released their third album, Fragments of Freedom. This repeated the sales success of Big Calm but received a less positive critical response. The band's fourth album, Charango, was released in 2002 and saw a diminished role for Edwards. The singles "Otherwise" and "Way Beyond" followed. The lyrics for "Undress Me Now" were written with Lambchop's Kurt Wagner, while other collaborators on the album were with rappers Pace Won and Slick Rick. In January 2003, the band undertook their first significant tour of the US since 1998.[19] In 2001, the Godfrey brothers contributed three songs to the Jim White album No Such Place.[20]

Split
By the end of 2003, the Godfrey brothers split with Edwards, citing creative and personal differences.[21] Edwards received "a phone call from our manager saying that it was over. It was a relief to think we didn't have to continue".[22] She was under the impression that the band had ceased to operate. A greatest hits compilation, Parts of the Process, helped to retain interest in the band and featured two new tracks: "What's Your Name" (featuring a rhyming cameo from Big Daddy Kane) and "Can't Stand It". At around the same time, they released the live DVD Morcheeba: From Brixton to Beijing. A decade later, Ross Godfrey reflected on this period, saying: "We just felt like we couldn't breathe, I'd been in the band and on the road since I was 18, so to have any kind of break from that was just amazing".[23]

The two brothers reunited the year after, leaving Paul to explain that "Ross and I realised that Morcheeba was kind of our family company, and that we wanted very much to keep it going, hence the change".[24] In 2005, Morcheeba released their fifth studio (and first post-Edwards) album, The Antidote. Daisy Martey (formerly of the band Noonday Underground) was recruited to replace Edwards as the album vocalist. However, Martey's period with the band was brief and she was sacked in the middle of the promotional tour, to be replaced by Jody Sternberg. Martey subsequently sued the band for breach of contract and defamation.[25] Sternberg's own tenure with the band was similarly brief, and she only appeared to have been part of the band to fulfil tour dates. According to Ross, the entire episode "was difficult to say the least. It left us in near-ruin".[26]

After a break of several years, Morcheeba released their sixth studio album, Dive Deep, in February 2008. On this album, the Godfrey brothers fell back into their role as producers, selecting five vocalists to perform their songs. The folk-rock singer Judie Tzuke, Norwegian born Thomas Dybdahl and blues singer/guitarist Bradley Burgess appeared as lead vocalists together with the Korean-American rapper Cool Calm Pete and French singer Manda (Amanda Zamolo).[27] Both Manda and Burgess toured with Morcheeba as lead singers on their 2008 tour.

Reunion
As a solo artist, Edwards remained with the same management company as Morcheeba—Chris Morrison the CM of CMO Management represented both artists—which led to a chance meeting in their London offices sometime in 2009. Edwards and the Godfrey brothers met again to discuss her possible involvement in a new project. Initially the singer was hesitant and pointed out that she "really enjoyed doing my solo stuff and writing my own lyrics".[28] Eventually, Edwards rejoined the band and the trio began work on a new album,[21] with Edwards still on tour promoting her solo album, Ross Godfrey living in California and Paul Godfrey in France.[29] On 12 February 2010, NME revealed that Edwards was once again back with the band, which was confirmed by Paul Godfrey the day after on the band's Myspace blog. Edwards made her live return with the band at the Caprices Festival, Switzerland on 9 April 2010.[30] Edwards' role in the band changed, as she had "become more confident" in her "ability as a singer and a songwriter", and found that during the recording process they were "more honest with each other", and thus they produced "a more honest record".[22]

Morcheeba released their seventh album, Blood Like Lemonade, on PIAS in June 2010, preceded by the single "Even Though". It was produced by Paul Godfrey, who described the album as "a warm, fuzzy blanket of psychedelia", while Edwards described the lyrics as "having dark themes".[22] She also remarked on how the brothers had made her part of the creative process again.[28] An eighteen-month tour followed that saw the band play around the Americas and Europe.[31]

Their eighth album, Head Up High, was released on 14 October 2013, again on PIAS.[32] In 2014, the band toured Australia,[33] with a line-up consisting of Skye Edwards (vocals), Ross Godfrey (guitars), Steve Gordon (bass), Richard Milner (keyboards), Martin Carling (drums) and James Anthony (decks).

Departure of Paul Godfrey
In 2014, Paul Godfrey left the band.[34][35] Ross Godfrey later explained that: "Paul and I had not been getting on musically, or personally for a long time, and after the Head Up High album in 2013, Paul told us he was leaving the band, and he wanted Skye and I to buy him out of his share of the name. We disagreed on how much it was worth so no deal was struck. Skye and I thought it best to just release the record we had made under our own names. There will be no more Morcheeba albums".[2] Paul Godfrey has since established a recording studio, Sacrosync Sound, in Hastings and recorded a new album "Cool Your Soul" with Rachel Cuming under the moniker Morcheeba Productions.[36][37]

Ross Godfrey and Skye Edwards announced a new project in 2016 named Skye & Ross.[38] They have toured, and released an eponymous album on 2 September 2016.[39] The band started as an acoustic duo but soon included Edward's son Jaega (drums), her husband Steve Gordon (bass) and Godfrey’s wife Amanda Zamolo (backing vocals).[40][41] Edwards took responsibility for the lyrics while Ross Godfrey noted that the recording process was "a very organic experience".[42]

Over And Over
Morcheeba Lyrics

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This will not be easy to say
This might be hard to hear
If I could do it any other way I would
But I have to come clear

If I close my eyes, maybe it will all disappear
Disappointing clouds, maybe they won't interfere
All the faults and failures

Betray the day when the
Cowardly excuses get in the way of wanting more

Dawn of the day and we're done
Missing something
Now we can say it's over
Endings begin With an awful lot of maybes
Let's make a start at goodbye

You acted as you did
Like a selfish little bitch
A sad ghost spilling my blood on the carpet
The more I give the less I understand Why I'm here

No great surprise
Words I needed to hear
With all the signs
Breaking won't be severe
Anxious complex feelings Enter the frame as we
Stoke the fire but can't sustain the flame
To make it roar

Dawn of the day and we're done
Missing something
Now we can say it's over
Endings begin With an awful lot of maybes
Let's make a start at goodbye

Gone as the days with sun
Times a'wasting
Now we can say it's over
When we're caught
Between that rock and hard place
Let's make a start at goodbye

Between that rock and hard place
Make a start at goodbye

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Morcheeba's song "Over and Over" are rife with emotions of disappointment, regret, and acceptance. The song is a confession of sorts, where the singer is expressing their feelings to someone they know they have to say goodbye to, but it's not going to be easy. The introductory lines convey the difficulty of expressing what needs to be said, but the singer grits their teeth and gets on with it. They try to escape from these harsh realities by closing their eyes and hoping everything will just go away, but unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.

The line "Cowardly excuses get in the way of wanting more" denotes the struggle between the desire to move on and the need to acknowledge one's faults, which often hold us back. The song's structure, which repeats the phrase "Dawn of the day and we're done, missing something," underscores the idea that time is slipping away, and change has to come.

The line "You acted as you did like a selfish little bitch, a sad ghost spilling my blood on the carpet" is a pointed accusation of betrayal, pain, and helplessness. The singer feels that they have given everything they could and they are left with nothing. The song's conclusion emphasizes the difficulty of leaving behind what we know and accepting the unknown. We're in limbo, caught between the "rock and hard place" of past and future, but to move forward, we have to start somewhere, even if that means saying goodbye.

Line by Line Meaning

This will not be easy to say
Starting a difficult conversation

This might be hard to hear
Anticipating negative reaction

If I could do it any other way I would
Apologizing for the situation

But I have to come clear
Admitting the truth is necessary

If I close my eyes, maybe it will all disappear
Avoiding reality, hoping problems will go away

Disappointing clouds, maybe they won't interfere
Negative thoughts causing doubts and uncertainty

All the faults and failures
Acknowledging mistakes

Betray the day when the
Confessing to bad choices

Cowardly excuses get in the way of wanting more
Not having the courage to pursue one's dreams

Dawn of the day and we're done
Beginning of the end

Missing something
Feeling incomplete

Now we can say it's over
Accepting that the relationship is finished

Endings begin With an awful lot of maybes
Uncertainty surrounding the future

Let's make a start at goodbye
Beginning the process of moving on

You acted as you did
Calling out bad behavior

Like a selfish little bitch
Using harsh language to describe negative actions

A sad ghost spilling my blood on the carpet
Feeling hurt and betrayed

The more I give the less I understand Why I'm here
Questioning the purpose of the relationship

No great surprise
Acknowledging the inevitable end

Words I needed to hear
Accepting the truth

With all the signs
Ignoring the warning signals

Breaking won't be severe
Believing that the outcome will not be too bad

Anxious complex feelings Enter the frame as we
Feeling anxious and conflicted

Stoke the fire but can't sustain the flame
Attempting to fix the relationship but it's not working

To make it roar
Wanting the relationship to be passionate again

Gone as the days with sun
Reflecting on past happy times

Times a'wasting
Feeling like time is running out

When we're caught
Being stuck in a tough situation

Between that rock and hard place
Having limited options

Make a start at goodbye
Beginning the process of letting go

Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: Ross Godfrey, Skye Edwards, Brad Barr

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Pour les français, voici la traduction des paroles :

Je me réveille à nouveau avec ces sons
Je me demande si je vais pouvoir dormir
S'évanouir, c'est s'envoler dans les profondeurs impitoyables
J'aimerais trouver un humain qui rendrait tout ça plus clair
Pour comprendre ces cycles et ce que je fais là
Je tombe
Encore et encore et encore et encore
J'appelle et encore et encore et encore et encore
Maintenant je parcours mes souvenirs
Je ne regrette rien
Les choses que je fais me font rire et me donnent envie de boire.
J'aimerais trouver un fou qui me ramène à la raison
Pour résoudre tous ces problèmes et ce qu'il y a à y gagner
Je tombe
Encore et encore et encore et encore
J'appelle et encore et encore et encore et encore
Prédire ce que je veux est toujours difficile
Mais pour atteindre mes buts, je suis prête à en payer le prix
J'aimerais rencontrer un astronaute, qui a tout compris à la vie
Faire voile vers la nuit étoilée et voir le monde rétrécir
Je tombe
Encore et encore et encore et encore
J'appelle et encore et encore et encore et encore
Encore et encore et encore et encore
J'appelle et encore et encore et encore et encore