Hi folks
We have some pretty exciting news to announce:
Our new album Planet Junkie is FINALLY available on pre-order as of today!
We are taking orders on our official website ONLY for now!
Full album release date is planned for September 20th, although the intricacies of the manufacturing process (and the fact that we are cutting it VERY short on the production side of things!) might mean that we could run a few days late on our planned schedule but fear not the full physical record WILL be with you before September ends!
You can now listen to most of the songs that will be featured on the album (we like to keep some of the suspense alive he he), before you decide to part with your hard-earned cash and grab yourselves a copy of the record – if you reckon we’ve done a good enough job that is!
On behalf of the ‘regular’ Drifting Sun team (Mathieu Spaeter on guitars, my humble self on keyboards, Manu Michael on bass, and Will Jones on drums), we are very pleased to say it has been an immense pleasure for us working with many talented musicians on this album, and we would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to all those who have put their mark on the songs and brought their magic in to create this piece of work we’re so proud to present to you today:
Marc Atkinson (Riversea/Moon Halo) on the vocals – a talented artist and a real gent, pleasure to work with you!
Colin Mold (Karnataka) on the vocals – thank you so much for being able to produce such great vocals whilst you had to deal with the pressure of your own house move! (I’m next!)
Joshua Corum (Head With Wings) on the vocals – we bickered, we fought our corner many a time, all in the interest of getting the best out of those damn tunes… and glad to say you came up with something pretty exceptional with your vocals!
Eric Bouillette (The Room/Nine Skies… and many more!) on the violin – you gave us great emotional performances, so I forgive you for not remembering me when we first met and jammed together 30 years ago!
Sarah Skinner (Red Dirt Skinners) on the saxophone – thanks for the tasty solos!
Ben Bell (Gandalf’s Fist) on the Hammond organ – growling licks and groovy tone, what more could we have asked for?
Conrad Cheng on the clarinet – cheers buddy for your sweet part in Everlasting Creed, it’s brought a great colour to the tune!
We must also give credit to the amazing designers who created beautiful artwork for us:
Karen Koski for the awesome album cover – please do get back to being a designer, your work is fabulous
Darcy Kelly-Laviolette for her equally mind-blowing art on the 3 singles – thank you so much for dazzling us with these 3 pieces of awesome work, and with the TINY deadline we gave you, it was no small feat on your part!
Brian Watson for the fab designs which you will discover on the accompanying lyric pages – thank you for adding that great touch to our lyric pages!
The bulk of the mixing and mastering work was handled masterfully (no pun intended) by our skillful sound engineer Jon ‘no pressure’ Huxtable, who runs a neat and tight ship from his Scottish den at Smallfishrecordings!
… whilst Joshua’s vocals were produced and engineered beautifully by Steven Hill at Bird’s Eyes studios in West Haven, CT – thanks to both of you, your clear vision of our music has brought a lot to the songs and our sound!
I also want to thank my friends Stefan Hepe, Andy and Chris Martini for their invaluable help sorting out our website, even though that is an admission that I am a dummy when it comes to internet stuff haha my secret is out now!