Drifter the long awaited solo album from Ian Bland featuring a generous 15 tracks that cover topics ranging from life in the Australian bush to life in the suburbs to just life in general.
Years spent building up his arsenal of observations and snippets of ideas, all captured in notebooks and just waiting for their chance to be turned into a song. Indeed even as “Drifter” is being released, Ian is already well into the writing for his next album.
Drifter is full of songs that won’t be discarded after a couple of listens, songs that keep revealing ever more layers to intrigue you.
Pick a song from the list and get a taste of how it sounds. It’s easier than reading another half a page of hyperbole telling you what it sounds like.
The album was recorded at red room records melbourne and mt best gippsland,
www.redroom.net.au
recorded and mixed by mark stanley
mastered by ross cockle at sing sing melbourne
produced by committee - mark stanley, greg hunt and ian bland
devil’s advocate - thatch
front cover art - peter lorkin
rear cover photograph - nicola graham
centre photograph - kim horton
design concept - ian bland
layout & additional design - jools thatcher
www.joolsweb.com
good to run into you last night... in the words of mae west 'I take it out in the open and laugh at it.' still not quite sure what she means...but i like it!
Hi Ian, Further to our chat about fine watering holes yesterday, may I take this opportunity to invite you down to The Lomond on Saturday September 6 for our CD launch? Cheers Dave
morn'n.. what a wekend eh? fred neil did write everybody's talkin'.. and mama cass and keith moon both died in harry's flat..which he then sold to townsend.