Album: Days of Future Passed – My Sojourn
Artist: John Lodge
2023 Halesouth Ltd
CD: HSKTFCD014

John Lodge: lead & backing vocals, bass, acoustic 12-string guitar

The 10,000 Light Years Band
Alan Hewitt: keys, nacing vocals, music director
Billy Ashbaugh: drums, percussion
Duffy King: electric guitars, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Jason Charboneau: cellos

And
Graeme Edge: spoken word (2, 16)
Jon Davison: lead vocals (9, 15), acoustic guitar (15)


Produced by Lodge/Hewitt
Mixed by Paul Klingberg
Mastered by Tim Debney
Lead vocals and bass recorded by Ray Nesbit
Additional audio edit by Nesbit/Davison

Management and concept director: Emily Lodge
Webmaster: Kristian Lodge
Cover photo: Inga Lodge
Photos: Brian Aris/Patricia Cohen/Gottleib Bros.
Logos: Roger Dean


Tracks:
THE DAY BEGINS
1. "The Day Begins" [Peter Knight] (4:06)
2. "Morning Glory" [Edge] (1:44)

DAWN: DAWN IS A FEELING
3. "Dawn (Prelude)" [Mike Pinder] (0:48)
4. "Dawn is a Feeling" [Pinder] (3:13)

THE MORNING: ANOTHER MORNING
5. "The Morning (Prelude)" [Ray Thomas] (0:16)
6. "Another Morning" [Thomas] (3:58)

LUNCH BREAK: PEAK HOUR
7. "Lunch Break (Prelude)" [Lodge] (0:50)
8. "Peak Hour" [Lodge] (3:31)

THE AFTERNOON
9. "Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon)" [Justin Hayward/Lodge] (5:06)
10. "Evening (Time to Get Away)" [Hayward/Lodge] (4:18)

EVENING
11. "The Sun Set (Prelude)" [Pinder] (0:37)
12. "The Sun Set" [Pinder] (3:32)
13. "Twilight (Prelude)" [Thomas] (0:20)
14. "Twilight Time" [Thomas] (3:06)

THE NIGHT
15. "Nights in White Satin" [Hayward] (6:36)
16. "Late Lament" [Edge/Knight] (1:14)
17. "The Night (Finale)" (0:39)

Additional orchestration by Hewitt


Notes: The Moody Blues' second album, 1967's Days of Future Passed, was a seminal album in the early history of progressive rock. Their first concept album, it has a mix of rock and orchestral elements. In 2023, with The Moody Blues having ended in 2018, Lodge, the bassist and co-lead vocalist on the original album, toured playing the whole of the album with his 10,000 Light Year Band, having begun rehearsals in 2021. There were two spoken word pieces written by Edge, but performed by Mike Pinder on the original album, and Lodge had asked Edge to record new recitations for the tour not long before his death in 2021. Joining Lodge and the band on the tour was Jon Davison, who married John's daughter Emily in Dec 2022. Davison had guested on Lodge's previous tours. In conjunction with the tour, Lodge and the others decided to record this new version of the album, released digitally 14 Jul 2023 and physically later.

Note also John's son Kristian, who runs his website, and his daughter-in-law Inga Lodge (née Wilson) took the cover photo of John and his wife Kirsten. (HP, 12 Aug 23)

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