When I came to Nuremberg the very first time in 2003 I spent many evenings at the Irish Cottage in Fürth, were Paul Dempsey introduced me to this wonderful moody ballad by Jimmy MacCarthy that I hadn’t heard before. Soon this song became a favourite of mine and I often played it live with Paul and his friends — but in order to make that song work for Antichrisis I had to give it a certain treatment.
So I scraped off all that acoustic guitar-flavour that “Ride On” usually comes in and used quite a lot of sounds from Spectrasonics’ Omnisphere, Trilian and Stylus RMS as well as Camel Audio’s Alchemy instead. That new electronic arrangement along with Ayuma’s outstanding vocal performance gives Antichrisis’ version of “Ride On” a very intense, dreamlike and stirring quality that one wouldn’t necessarily expect from plain vanilla three chord Irish Folk ballad (no offense meant because many of Rock History’s greatest songs consist of just three of four chords).
Word & Music by Jimmy MacCarthy
Arranged and produced by Sid
All Instruments and male vocals by Sid
Female vocals by Ayuma
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