Christine Booth
Forget eye of newt, toe of frog, wing of bat and tongue of dog, the magic ingredients in The White Witch – A Symphonic Trilogy were nagging and a restless hankering for something new. With their ninth studio record, Magenta have embraced the symphonic, crafting an album with an orchestra assembled from instruments both real and sampled to tell the story of witches through the ages.
“I always get bored doing the same thing over and over again, really, so I wanted to try something a little different,” says Robert Reed, who wrote the music that’s accompanied by lyrics from his brother Steven. The album is split into three chapters: , and , and the concept behind the record emerged when Reed went back to Magenta’s 2001 debut, . “There was a track on it called , a 20-minute epic, and one
