Primarily Found On:

Protection

The links below will take you either to the Collector section of MASSIVEATTACK.IE, or to an external website - either amazon.com or discogs.com, where you can find out more about all the the album (s)/release (s) that this particular Massive Attack song appears on.

Spirits Of Nature, Smoking Beats (Cool Monsoon), Harmonia, The Chillout Session 2, Kontor Sunset Chill Vol. 4, Music For Cocktails Part 2, Pure Moods Celestial Celebration

26th September 1994

04:59

Promo Version - This is a slightly alternative version of Weather Storm that only appears on a promo sampler that was issued to promote the album Protection. At 03:04 minutes into the duration of the song on the sampler an extra 10 seconds of additional piano music is heard that is not present on the regular album version. The sampler CD does not mention the fact that this is an alternative version of Weather Storm.

Cool Monsoon - This is another one of the Mad Professor’s dub reconstructions of the songs off Protection. Included only on No Protection.

Written by Andrew Vowles, Robert Del Naja, Grant Marshall, Nelle Hooper, Craig Armstrong, Cedric Napoleon, Curtis Harmon and James Lloyd

Produced by Andrew Vowles, Robert Del Naja, Grant Marshall and Nellee Hooper

Piano by Craig Armstrong

See Protection info section for further credit details by clicking here.

Weather Storm uses a sample from the song It’s Time For Love by Pieces Of a Dream. It appears primarily on their 1983 release Imagine This. It is credited officially by Massive Attack.

The piano arranger and composer of Weather Storm, Craig Armstrong would go on to make not one but two different versions of Weather Storm. In the first version released in 1997 under the same name of Weather Storm on Armstrong’s album The Space Between Us, Armstrong emphasized the orchestral elements in the original song further while in the second version released in 2004 again with the same name of Weather Storm on Armstrong’s Piano Works album, he stripped away the majority of the song to just it just a lone piano track.

Instrumental

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Whilst not much information exists exactly on the origins of Weather Storm (or its sister songs, Sly and Heat Miser), it was the direct result of Massive Attack’s partnership with with the up and coming film composer Craig Armstrong and their desire to produce a song with a very filmic theme or quality to it. This urge to produce film score would naturally lead to Massive Attack’s involvement with the Danny The Dog and Bullet Boy soundtracks ten years later.

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Weather Storm has never once been played live.

Craig Armstrong on why working with Massive Attack on Weather Storm was a logical choice - “I’ve always loved Jazz, I’ve always loved black music, and I’ve always loved a lot of Classical music. So I guess what I do now is just subconsciously all these…you know, I suppose in a way Weather Storm, that was a very typical thing for me to get involved in because they [Massive Attack] wanted something really classical, I loved their tracks, so that was a happy marriage” [IGN.com - November 2004]