Early Day Miners - The Treatment - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Mentored by Daniel Lanois, Daniel Burton has been putting his project-oriented stamp on a variety of records the last ten years and it has all coalesced into this career-defining work. InchOffshoreInch is one continuous piece, made up of six distinct songs. It's equally beautiful and noisy, composed though loose, akin to the late '80s/early '90s 4AD-laden world of shoegaze wash-rock like Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Mark Hollis, their predecessor Peter Gabriel, or modern day saint William Basinski. In the Lanois/Eno tradition, Burton collected an all-star cast to flesh out his vision with members of Horace Pinker, Olo, Black Mountain, Windsor for the Derby, Unwed Sailor, and Tortoise.

Early Day Miners - All Harm Ends Here [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/18/2005

Why Tone Hound? And why Corona? Ok... In the making of this album I went to great lengths to ensure integrity of the audio. My amps were built by hand, have the best components and use valves. My guitars were designed and built especially for me, are kept in great shape and use vintage formula electronics. Every device in my setup is chosen to have no detrimental effect on the tone of my guitars. As soon as my guitar strings show any signs of deterioration they are changed for new ones. I use the finest microphones, and keep the signal path as short as possible. I recorded digitally at the highest sampling rates and the album is available both as a CD and for download at extended sample rates for those who need that little extra. I try not to let any of this affect the performance - the first take is often the best but the preparation is vital. Is that microphone really in the right place? Because of all this, a good friend of mine thinks I'm a Tone Hound! Oh, and Corona?... Work it out... The live JV Band is a 3 Piece. Bob Henrit (Kinks, Argent) plays Drums. When Bob is otherwise engaged it's either Steve Rodford (Zombies) or John Clark. On Bass it will be Mark Griffiths (Matthews Southern Comfort, Don McLean), or Bob Skeat (Wishbone Ash), or Jim Rodford (Kinks, Argent, Zombies), or Andy Childs, orJamie Mallender, or Gav Coulson. It's a fluid lineup. Every one of these guys plays great and each lineup is subtly different. Recorded mixed and mastered at 101 Recorders UK. Thanks to Viv Boucherat for BVs, Max Milligan for Slide Guitar, Robbie Stuart-Mathews for blues harp, Ian Gibbons for keyboards, Bob Henrit for Drums, and of course Bianca Kinane for heavenly vocals on 'Would You' & 'Touch My Soul'. Marc Sinclair for creative input on the CD Artwork and all things web related . Matt Haywood - Blueshound. Big love to all at JHS including John Skewes, Dennis Drumm & Gav