NEW ALBUM OUT NOW! "THE JUNCTION OF THE TWO RIVERS"

Yeah thats right. We finished recording sometime around April, had a month of other stuff to do in May, then started mixing in June. Then had a break for 6 weeks. Then came back, mixed some more, mastered with Zlaya at studio 101 in Amsterdam Theres a bit of a rave about the recording process on the BLOG if you are curious. The album is called THE JUNCTION OF THE TWO RIVERS and has 12 songs on it. You can check some tunes out in the meantime on MySpace. You can get a sneak preview at Myspace, see some pics and stories about the recordings on the Blog or for those of you (like me) with better things to do than sit around listening to crap quality Mp3s while your attention span degenerates behind your pc...you can wait till the real thing is available...things are looking up!

WHAT ELSE HAS BEEN HAPPENING?

Its been a busy 18 months or so. Real busy. Not that we have been out madly touring around or anything like that. Its just that other projects have been taking a front seat for a while - the release earlier this year of Parne Gadjes album on the Smoked Label (the other group we all play in), and last year the production and release of Davie Lawsons debut album. And before that we had the recording, production and release of Kamal Hors album "The dance of the Lute". Also, 2006/2007 saw consecutive tours of Australia for Big Low, more general label-running type stuff and well...what can I say, life has been hectic! Actually what we need is a manager, someone to run the label, a secretary, a publicist, a studio caretaker, someone to solder microphone cables, a baby sitter and someone to wash the van and take the dog for walks...if we had all that wed be making 3 albums a year at least. Despite the craziness we have managed to keep recording, rehearsing and playing the odd show. There is footage of a song from a show at The Naked Song Festival on YOUTUBE. That was back in May in Eindhoven - it was a great gig and the footage is ok too except that the gsm image suts down before the song finishes - oh, well, as my friend Will would say "ya get that on the big jobs".