TWO DAYS FROM EDEN

Pride
Across The Water
Stone Harvest
Like Knives

Recorded at Blackwing and ?
Engineered by John Fryer and Drostan J Madden
BREATH3

We started recording Two Days From Eden in a studio in South London that will remain nameless. We had a lot of problems there right from the start, in fact Drostan had such a hard time trying to get a good guitar sound for Gary, that in the end he made him stand in the freezing garage next to the outside lavatory to get a good reverby, distorted sound, because the sound in the live room was so bad. But the final straw came when we tried to do overdubs and found all the tracks leaked onto each other, so that we couldn’t control the sounds of the individual instruments and everything just merged into one muddy mess and when we complained about this the studio owner told us he thought that was the effect we were trying to create and we didn’t have any grounds for complaint as this effect suited our music! So after many frustrating days working there we only had one completed song which was Pride and decided to abandon the session and find somewhere else to record. I remember we were all sitting in the control room with Drostan, feeling really despondent , when we decided to ring Blackwing and try and book a session there. We really wanted to carry on working with Drostan as none of the technical problems we’d had were his fault, but at that time at Blackwing one could only work with the in house engineer. Drostan said that was OK with him so we went ahead and booked our first
session with John Fryer.

We’d rehearsed a number of times in the Blackwing building, which is a converted church, but were completely unaware that the recording studio was there as the rehearsal room had a different name and a different entrance. So in one way it was all quite familiar, but in another way it was very daunting, as Blackwing was so legendary and so many of our favourite records had been recorded there. I think Stone Harvest and particularly Across The Water do have that distinctive John Fryer/Blackwing sound and we were really knocked out when we heard the final mixes at how big and lush everything sounded and were really keen to go back and record our next record there, which we did.

Taken from interview with Ari.