It has been a bit of a long road, but everything is now in place for its release. The release date is 13/01/2023. The lead time for CD production has been impacted by the lack of raw materials.
It is a lot harder these days basically and we have to be patient and queue…
A reminder as to the album and its contents
Personnel:
Guy Manning / Keyboards, Percussion, Acoustic Instruments, Vocals/BVs
Sean Timms / Keyboards, BVs, Percussion (and some other things he has not told me about!)
Marek Arnold / Saxes, SeaBoard, Keyboards
Special Guests:
Brody Thomas Green (Courtesy of Southern Empire) / Drums
Cam Blokland (Courtesy of Southern Empire) / Electric Guitars
Jonathan Barrett / Fretless Bass
Nick Sinclair / Bass
Riley Nixon-Burns / Trumpet
Linda Pirie / Flute & Piccolo
Julie King / BVs
Kevin Currie / BVs
Amanda Timms / BVs
Format
The album will be divided into 2 parts as we felt the material and approach were quite different for the two sections.
MAKING SHORE Part One:
1. A Mountain of Sky
2. Back2Back
3. Noon Day Candles
4. Americana
5. In Deep Blue (Sea Songs Pt.1)
6. Reflections on Copper
7. Crown of Thorns (Sea Songs Pt. 2)
The now usual mix of DAMANEK Socio/Economic/Political musings and discussions plus some songs about the ‘human condition’.
Each song will have its own page on the Damanek Website soon where you wil be able to find the lyrics and supporting material for the subject matter.
MAKING SHORE Part Two:
8. Oculus (Overture and Acts I – IV)
A long gothic narrative epic!
The storyline for which will be available on the Band website once the album is released.
The Front cover artwork has been done by Caz Reason and looks lovely.
The album booklet has been finished too – All done very expertly by Mike Holmes of GEP (and IQ of course!)
Some album promotional lyric based videos have also been created and we’ll be letting you know where/when these will be published (most likely via our FaceBook page and YouTube channel)
Here is a link to the Damanek YouTube site where we store all the promo videos
– the new track is “Americana,” stream the track through the YouTube player below: