Album - LOVE COME DOWN - GUMCD37
Released: August 2000
Producer: Ash Peters
Engineer: Jorg Hassenblad
Nine original, plaintive and simple songs of love and longing.
Steve Butler (voice, piano, organ, acoustic guitar)
Ewen Vernal (bass)
Eddy John (drums and percussion)
Stewart Veitch
(guitar)
Charlie Irvine (guitar)
Annie McCaig (bvox)
Simon Jaquet (mandolin)
Random trivia
This album was somehow recorded on a Yamaha eight track digital unit - extra tracks were added by slaving the machine to a computer based Soundscape system (most songs were something like 14-track). This was a bit of a caper, but it worked.
Eddy's drum takes were recorded at my chum Martin's studio in Bristol (The Coachouse - famous for Massive attack and Portishead recordings in the '90s).
The photo on the back was a snap taken at a friend's wedding. It was hot and I fell asleep (after the ceremony you understand). My daughter and god-daughter were having fun, collecting up all the discarded service-sheets and flowers and covering me as if with a shroud. I don't know why I liked this - it was very sweet - perhaps I felt cherished, or something.
Titles: (listen to MP3 samples)
01 Til we all have faces
02 Hill of the angels MP3 whole song
03 My regrets about
you MP3
04 Some kind of meaning
05 Hearts and minds
06 There you were MP3
07
The more loving one MP3
08 Primrose Road
09 Heart of perfection
All songs written by Steve Butler and published by Sticky Music
To buy the album now, post-free, from the
Sticky Music site, go here:
http://www.stickymusic.co.uk/acatalog/index.html