music : the hunters (ep)

Metadata

• Artist: The Sleeping Fields
• Album: The Hunters [EP]
• Date: April 2013
• Format(s): Digital
• Label(s): Self Released

Track Listing

Personnel

• Brian Evans: Guitars, Bass, Shruti Box, Mandolin, Vocals, Drums, Programming, Collage Art, Recording, Mixing, Mastering, Liner Notes
• Janessa James: Guitar, Vocals, Lyrics

Notes & Thoughts

The Hunters is an EP that I made with my friend Janessa. We had played in a number of bands together before. Neither of us had been deeply involved in any particular projects for awhile and had been toying around with songs on our own. I had recorded some demos and while we were hanging out one evening I had her listen to them and she added vocals to three of them. Listening to the EP you can likely tell that tracks 1,3, and 5 have a different sound and feel from tracks 2 and 4. Janessa brought tracks 2 and 4 over and we recorded them with my additions.

I dont think either of us necessarily intended for the songs to go together, but as no further songs and no other projects materialized at that time, we decided to put them together as a little EP, which is what you have here.

The two songs that Janessa was the primary writer for made their way onto a 7 inch lathe cut record that was released by the now dormant Sage Canyon label (I still have copies, though... get in touch if interested).

If I recall correctly the album was recorded with a Seagull 6-string acoustic-electric guitar, a Squire Cyclone electric guitar, a cheap store brand mandolin, a shruti box I got on ebay, and a single condenser microphone. I believe the guitars went direct into the audio interface and effects were mostly added in the recording program with the exception of some delay and reverb pedals for the electric guitar. The last track was likely the only one to use a mic'ed guitar; which would have run through a small Vox practice amp.