“I particularly remember the adventure of writing that album because we had had to move out of our home in Hyde Park Square because of a fire next door, and it was uninhabitable. We rented a flat across the square and moved in for about a month and I wrote all the pieces on a tiny, hired electric piano with a midi connection to my computer. It was like trying to compose an album while camping.  Programming in some basics, like drum and basslines, chords etc, and writing the pieces into my software (called Finale), and constructing the violin parts onto the scoring software so that Vanessa would have no doubt as to what to play.  She had never recorded on multitrack in the way we usually worked. It was all very new to her but she picked it up quickly. I had bought her a white Zeta electric violin, - the idea being that we would be able to match exactly the violin part,  using midi, and mix it with various other sounds if we wanted to, to get an enhanced, modern, maybe futuristic effect”

Vanessa-Mae’s first album sold four million albums worldwide and established her a a huge star in the crossover genre.