Format: 2 x Black Vinyl
Release Date: 29th September 2017
Description:
This album has been many years in the making. We wrote a lot of our own material, but we never properly recorded it in a studio, we did however make lots of "one mic" recordings onto a mini-disk player. Tom kept hold of all of these recordings and in 2011 send copies of everything to the rest of the band. A short list of 30 were chosen to record properly. A basic studio was booked, and recording began, initially it was pretty basic, just drums, bass & keys with guitars overdubbed the following day. With these foundation rhythm tracks Tom went away and edited them, creating structure, extra layers and demo mixes. These demo mixes were used to send to MCs. El Da Sensei & Sadat X were the first to respond to our request, and soon features were flying through ever other week. We actually had enough material for 2 albums, but picked what we wanted to represent our first release which became Cinder Hill...
Tracklist:
1. Intro (feat. John Robinson)
2. Continuation (feat. J-Live)
3. Across The Bridge (feat. Sadat X & El Da Sensei)
4. Trees For The Jungle (feat. The Black Opera & Sabira Jade)
5. Malt Liquor (feat. Guilty Simpson & Fat Ray)
6. Put It On Ya (feat. Soundsci & Mr Thing)
7. Fighting Talk (feat. Lifford & Blaise B)
8. Flying Fist (feat. Prince Po)
9. Deep Breath (feat. Jamall Bufford)
10. Moose Python (feat. Dumbtron)
11. Coastin' (feat. John Robinson)
12. Soothsayers (feat. The Black Opera)
13. System Animal (feat. Denmark Vessey)
14. The Life & Death Of Phenomenal Don (feat. Quelle Chris)
15. Come A Long Way (feat. Masta Ace & Large Pro)
16. Forward March (feat. Oxygen & 7even Thirty)
17. That's Facts (feat. Edo G, John Robinson, Prince Po, Soundsci, Reks, yU & Denmark Vessey)
Credits:
John Sam - Drums
Joe Sam - Bass & Guitars
Richard Halligan - Keys, saxes & flute
Tom Caruana - Percussion, piano, samples and clav on 10 & 14
Additional musicians:
Amy Turk - Harp
Dominic Sewell - Violin & viola
Rebecca Sewell - Violin on Flying Fist
TJ Holmes - Cello on Come A Long Way
Andy Watts - Trumpet on Across The Bridge, Deep Breath & Phenomenal Don
Laura Impallomeni - Trombone on Across The Bridge
Sabira Jade - Singing on Trees For The Jungle & Coastin'
Andy Vickery - Guitar solo on Put It On Ya
Mr Thing - Cuts on Put It On Ya
DJ Jon Doe - Cuts on Coastin'
DJ Manipulate - Cuts on Flying Fist, Soothsayers, System Animal & That's Facts
Dan Tuff - Cuts on Forward March
String Arrangements:
Continuation by Tom Caruana
Fighting Talk & Flying Fist by Richard Halligan
Come A Long Way by Richard Halligan & Dominic Sewell
Mixed & mastered by Doctor Mix
Artwork by Rowan Burkam
Design by Rob Crespo
