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And I Will Wake The Dawn Itself - The 8 Track Demo Tapes

by Lammergeiers

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A little free something we've put together as a thank you to everyone who's been listening to the album!

Wake The Dawn! started out way back in 2011-12 as a very different project: an excercise in composition and never intended to ever see the light of day but simply to put me out of my comfort zone and try to change my approach to writing music. The original recordings were made in downtime at a local studio I was making a Last Harbour album at and I'd go in on a Sunday morning, cue up a tape and start trying to come up with ideas. The only instruments on hand were a Wurlitzer piano that didn't really work, a Roland Juno 6, a Yamaha CS5 and an ancient drum machine called a Welson Supermatic - no guitars,nothing acoustic.I filled three rolls of Quantegy 8 track tape (that's about 40 min each, non tape-heads), most of which was complete nonsense, and promptly forgot about it.

Ideas from a few of those tracks were later repurposed as the basis of songs for other projects - notably Paler Cities and A Curved Road for Last Harbour, the latter of which I've included in its pre-Last Harbour guise here - but otherwise they sat on a shelf forgotten about until 2017 when I found the old tape machine living at my flat and decided to have a look at what was on those tapes.

The album is stitched together from many of those fragments of ideas, first broken down on Logic and edited to form structures and sequences that gave some form of direction to what we were doing, then I overdubbed guitars and passed them on to other musicians I thought might suit the material, and gradually Wake The Dawn began to emerge.

These demos then are a collection of fragments from those original tapes, presented as they were in 2017 when we first began to work on them. In some cases they've been edited for length but for the most part we've tried to keep them as they were.

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released March 3, 2021

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Little Red Rabbit Records Manchester, UK

A record label based in Manchester.

Lammergeiers
Fuzzy Lights
Quiet Loner
Anna Kashfi
Crazy Man Michael
Kalbakken
Last Harbour
Lazarus Clamp
Samson & Delilah

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