Wishing Like a Mountain and Thinking Like the Sea
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| Released | 1990 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Mike Stewart, Poi Dog Pondering | |||
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Wishing Like a Mountain and Thinking Like the Sea is an album by the American band Poi Dog Pondering, released in 1990.[1][2] The first single was "U-Li-La-Lu".[3] The band supported the album with a North American tour.[4]
The album was produced by Mike Stewart and the band, which included eight members for the recording sessions.[5][6] Most of it was recorded in Austin, Texas, with additional work at studios in the U.S. and England.[3] Poi Dog Pondering used more than 36 different instruments during the sessions; they chose not to rehearse before recording in order to give the songs a spontaneous quality.[7][8] Frontman Frank Orrall thought that the band used all of their musical influences to create a unique sound, rather than acting merely as ethnomusicologists.[9] Susan Voelz played a mandocello on "Fruitless".[10] "The Me That Was Your Son", about a deceased mother, was inspired by zouk music.[11][12] "The Ancient Egyptians" is dedicated to Jonathan Richman.[13]
