Ellis Island Sound Good Seed CD

Ellis Island Sound started life as a duo consisting of multi-instrumentalists Peter Astor (The Weather Prophets, the Loft) and David Sheppard, gentlemen adventurers in sound since 1997. Recorded in a tiny, deconsecrated chapel in the sleepy Waveney Valley on the Suffolk/Norfolk border, the album features 20 brand new songs. Using acoustic instruments that range from parlor guitars and ukuleles to pump harmoniums, dulcimers, goat skin drums and washboards, and recorded on an antediluvian 8-track tape recorder, it's EIS stripped down to their analogue fundaments. That said, Pete and David also deploy a stylo-phone, a Casio mini-sampler, a Bentley Rhythm Ace drum machine and miscellaneous noise making devices. Their friend Josh Hillman (from the Willard Grant Conspiracy) helps out, lending violin, viola and pedal steel. 2007.

1. Swords Reversed I 2. Angel's Way 3. Auction of Promises 4. The Villagers 5. Cuckoo Hill 6. Count the Cars 7. The Plagal Walk 8. Density Radio 9. Swords Reversed II 10. Building a Table 11. Dark Lane 12. Unwinding Not Unravelling 13. The Waveney Waltz 14. Hills of Braithwaite 15. Reeds for Arthur 16. Summoning the Pharaoh 17. The Orchid 18. Last Days of John Train 19. Concertina Theory 20. Starlight Madrigal