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| Lost Tracks EP 1995-99 |
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Remember Me |
2 |
Strong Rivers |
3 |
Don't Wait Too Long |
4 |
Dancing Shoes |
5 |
Stewed Flutes |
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6 |
Raising Kayn - single 2009 |
7 |
So Many Years - single 2019 |
8 |
Better Times In Sight - Conway Britton EP 2019 |
| Fake News and other silly songs EP 2020 |
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Fake News |
10 |
Make It Not So (Trek No-Nos) |
11 |
The Space Architect |
12 |
Unsung Parts Of You |
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| 13 |
Me Time - single 2020 |
| bonus tracks |
14 |
We Have Life - previously unreleased 2019 |
15 |
Jazz Potato - Govannen album As I Roved Out - 2018 |
Chris
Conway - |
vocals, piano, keyboards,
acoustic & electric 9 string guitars, nylon string guitar, Irish whistles, sampled bass, percussion, drum loops, theremin, kalimba, hammer dulcimer, effects. |
Sally Barker - vocals - 8 |
Dan Britton - guitar, mandolin, vocals - 8, 15 |
Adele McMahon - violin, vocals - 15 |
Roger Pugh - mandola, acoustic guitar, vocals - 2,3,4
Neil Rabjohn - cajon drum, vocals - 8, 15 |
Roger Wilson - violin, vocals - 15 |
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A collection of Chris Conway EPs and singles from 1995 to 2020, plus 2 bonus tracks, one of them not previously released.
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background
I’ve always been an album fan. These EPs and singles have came about for various reasons. Mostly because a song comes along that wont fit on a songs album. Maybe it was for a one-off project. Lost Tracks EP was a compilation in itself.
EPs and singles tend to get a bit lost on online stores, so to raise their status a bit I made this album of them. Apart from the bonus tracks I chose a chronological order, while keeping the EP track orders intact.
I remastered all the tracks to align the volumes, tweaking the EQs on the way. I remixed Me Time as I always wanted to warm up my vocal sound.
So here it is - quite an eccentric album, but I hope you enjoy these songs written over a span of 25 years. - CC
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influences
David
Crosby, John Sebastian, Alan Stivell,
Jesse Colin Young, Dan Ar Braz,, Van Morrison
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review
CHRIS CONWAY - EPs & Singles Collection 1995-2020
**** (OBLONG)
Described by Conway as “quite an eccentric album', his EPs & Singles Collection 1995-2020 is in fact a perfectly reasonable attempt to round up various orphans and outtakes from a twenty-five-year period of prolific writing, recording and performance. (It perhaps ought to be noted, however, that he actually turned professional in 1989.)
Covering Conway's solo work, the first five tracks here originally comprised his Lost Tracks EP in 2002 and include 'Remember Me', a leftover from his superb Earth Rising album of 2002. His duo activity with Dan Britton is represented by 'Better Times In Sight' (also featuring Sally Barker). In a lighter vein there's 'Fake News' and 'other silly songs' ('The Space Accountant', anyone?), plus 'Jazz Potato from his work with Celtic/ceilidh band Govannen.
There's a whole bunch of other stuff from the multi-talented Conway, too (a theme for 2009 web TV series Raising Kayn, and 'We Have Life', an anthem sonq for his old alma mater Leicester University, for example), yet anyone unfamiliar with his music would nevertheless find this strong collection a coherent and satisfying whole.
For those who've followed his career with interest, Chris Conway's EPs & Singles Collection is merely the latest addition to an ever-expanding, always stimulatinq musical CV.
- David White RnR Magazine
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notes
1-5 - Lost Tracks 1995-99 EP
An EP released in 2002 with tracks from duo touring albums in the 90s with Roger Pugh. "Remember Me" was a leftover from the Earth Rising album sessions.
6. - Raising Kayn - single 2009
Theme song for the Raising Kayn web TV series I wrote in 2009 but remastered and released in 2021. Underscore highlights from the series was included on the Vampire Dreams album.
7. - So Many Years - single 2019
I wrote this song to celebrate 30 years in music and I played is as an enclore on my 30 Years In Music Concert.
8 -Better Times In Sight - EP 2019.
I first recorded this song on my debut solo album in 1995. We were touring with Sally Barker. This recording was bound for the 2020 Chris Conway & DanBritton album "Wonder", but we had too many ballads so we released an EP with this and Dan's "Magical Time" song to create advanced interest for the album.
9-12 - Fake News and other silly songs - EP 2020
A collection of silly songs I'd performed at Filk (sci-fi folk music) Conventions but never recorded. None fitted in with my solo song CDs so I put them out as an EP.
13 - Me Time - single 2020.
I've been lucky to have sent songs to female artists who have gone on to record them. I wrote this for JPop singer yAmmy Yammiyume who then was in the group CY8ER. I sent her the song but alas never heard back so I released my version as a single.
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14. - We Have Life - previously unreleased - 2019.
I was asked to write an anthem song for the University Of Leicester's Graduation Ceremony. I graduated from there and it was my old tutor, a musician himself who asked me. The song was sung by a choral quartet at 8 ceremonies and I saw it performed at one of them.
15. - Jazz Potato - from the Govannen album As I Roved Out - 2018.
I often jest that I'm am a jazz piano player in an Irish band at Govannen concerts. Dan suggested I wrote a song about it. I sing it now in my solo song gigs and the call and response thing is a lot of fun. So I would've released it as a single, which is why i included it.
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