We had a fun afternoon getting some photos for both the new website and to use as a cover for "Take My Hand".
Got several odd looks as we dragged musical equipment over to Cwm Pit and set it up in the middle of a field!

 Of course we were accompanied by "MC Jaffa" who didn't want to miss out on an outing on such a hot sunny day! Since he seems so at home using the controls I have my suspicions that its actually him whose the technical genius rather than James....

​Even more odd looks from passing motorists later on as James and Ella our (unwilling) volunteer got into the rather cold Ebbw Fach river - you've got to be prepared to suffer for art (which was easy for me to say since I was nice and dry on the riverbank - and now you know why I decided to bring Jaffa - after all someone had to hold him!)

​Here are a couple of photo's showing how they actually got the cover for "Take My Hand"

Anyway - I personally think the finished photo was well worth their soggy discomfort - and I have magnanimously forgiven them both for leaving wet patches on the car seats on the way home!

Until next time...

​Kie :)

I just wanted to say a big thank you to Mark at Chameleon Music for the advice on the mix for "Take My Hand."

Sometimes having another set of ears helps no end :)

James

So, here's a slightly funny story...

Steve Bear came over to the studio to record a County Album. For once he was really organised, knew exactly what songs he wanted to do, sat down at the keyboard and played two notes. The keyboard was set with a synth sound from when we had been messing around earlier. Those two notes  were all that it took for him to get an idea of a song stuck in his head. 

James and Steve played around with various sounds and instruments for a while and the outline of a song was born. 
Steve then handed me a piece of paper with the words "I'm asleep, come wake me" written on it and said "write me a song based on that!" - so I sat scribbling away as fast as I could, trying to keep up with the music they had started to play - it sort of felt as if the song was writing itself, and within less than 30 minutes we started to record a rough draft of "Take My Hand" - not remotely a country song at all! By the end of the weekend the song was pretty much finished and we enjoyed the process so much we decided to set up Concrete Spirit!

Hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed producing it

​Kie