Lark by Lark
The songs on the Lark album span about twenty five years,each one marking a particular point in my slightly eccentric life.
Even the recording and production of the album took several years. The whole process from early creative rehearsal, a few great gigs, to the first live recordings and then onto my arrangements and production has been done in time taken out from a real life elsewhere. It’s been a labour of love!
Wonderful people brought their artistry and skill to the project:
Tim Heymerdinger (Drums) and Guy Jones (Bass) displayed their masterful musicianship and their devotion throughout the project and still do; David Wilkinson enhanced several tracks with his astonishing guitar playing and Katie Buckhaven delivered sublime vocals on Moments; Jonathan Presland's genius poetry can be heard on Sweating Cold Minestrone, La Passionara, Giromancing and Lark, Tony Bevan's brilliant lyrics on Hard Life and Anna Driscoll's beautiful words on Blue Stone Lane - her legacy; Alan Davies then created iconic artwork (directed by Tim) which perfectly complements the music and Phoenix created photographs that shows our souls - he was my best critic throughout the whole production process; Finally Nigel O’Neil (Copysound) sensitively mastered the album and packaged and duplicated the final CD's.
Steven McDaniel
Tracklist
| 1. | Hard Life | 4:54 |
| 2. | Inner Voice | 5:10 |
| 3. | Since You've Been Around | 5:31 |
| 4. | River Runs Dry | 4:28 |
| 5. | Fly | 5:37 |
| 6. | A True Professional | 5:12 |
| 7. | Beautiful Places | 3:30 |
| 8. | Watching for that Girl | 5:11 |
| 9. | Blue Stone Lane | 5:31 |
| 10. | Love | 5:42 |
| 11. | Sweating Cold Minestrone | 5:07 |
| 12. | La Passionara | 6:42 |
| 13. | Giromancing | 4:04 |
| 14. | Lark | 6:23 |
| 15. | Education | 4:35 |
| 16. | Today's the Day | 4:49 |
| 17. | Moments | 4:49 |
Credits
Steven McDaniel: Lead Vocals, Keyboards, BV's, Recording, Programming, Production
Tim Heymerdinger: Drums, Percussion, Art Direction
Guy Jones: Fretted, Fretless and Electric Upright Basses
David Wilkinson: Guitar on 'River Runs Dry','Fly','Love','La Passionara', 'Today's the Day'
Katie Buckhaven: Vocals on 'Moments'
Phoenix: Photographs (photosbyphoenix.com)
Allan Davies: Artwork (almostlikelife.net)
Nigel O'Neil: Mastering,CD packaging and Duplication (CopySound.co.uk)
License
All rights reserved.
Planet Zyz isn't cool. That's because I'm not cool and Planet Zyz is just where music and stuff I'm involved with gets made and put out to the Big Wide World. Cottage Industry? Well, actually a Terrace-in-Milton-Keynes industry. Every album is different to the others, and none of them quite fit in with where all the Cool Stuff is. Outsider Art? This stuff is from a different planet.