FROM THE ASHES

The first track we recorded was ‘Slipshod Blues’. Our good friend, Chris Rowe of Midnight Crow Pictures had manged to get us a digital release slot from the music ‘fairtrade’ website gogoyoko.com.

In a show of unabashed optimism, we attempted to record and mix the whole track in one day. We managed to lay down all the basics and to get a monitor mix, but alas the song was not fully mixed and therefore polished to our satisfaction. But we still released it on gogoyoko, and our first track was out there. We even got featured on their homepage:

Flash forward about eight months, and we were back in the studio. This time we’d set a slightly more realistic goal of recording two songs in three days. Over the course of that time we recorded ‘Starfighter’ and ‘Hot Pursuit’. The results:

As you can tell, we took it very seriously:

With three songs recorded, two to our satisfaction, all we needed was to re-mix ‘Slipshod Blues’. Cue another half day in the studio.

And we were ready. “Ready for what?” you ask? It was time for FROM THE ASHES to release their debut EP…