1. Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure - Prisoner II
2. Uther Moads - Imprisoner (Uther Moads' remix of Prisoner II)
3. Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure - Come On Baby Please

1. Prisoner II:

If I find myself alone
In a city far from home
Save my thoughts & write a note,
You'll see the things I've done:

Red at night, evening closing on the dying night,
Darkness growing as the mist comes down,
Making ghosts of our friends in town,
Clocks go round and the late sun fades,
From cousins, running in a field of shades,
Leave a light in the window on,
For all your girls and all your sons.

And every night I'll think of home,
Wonder how the kids have grown,
Save my thoughts and write a note,
You will see the things I've done.

Vocals: Zygmunt Day. Guitars: Zygmunt Day, Giancarlo Grasso. Bass: Oliver Bissill. Drums: Joe Hyam. Glockenspiel, Organ: Zygmunt Day. Trumpet: Angie Rance. Written by Zygmunt Day. Arrangement by Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure.

2. Imprisoner

Vocals: Zygmunt Day. Electronic melodies and percussion: Rhodri Karim. Arrangement by Rhodri Karim.

3. Come On Baby Please

Well come on baby please be a friend to me,
You're the only good thing that I can see,
I know I'm kinda drunk,
I know it's kinda dumb,
How I keep letting my tongue run on...

I never had a place I could feel safe,
Never had a feeling that went away,
It isn't what I want,
It isn't what I planned,
Looking for a home not built by hands...

And I'll get my conscience to quote me,
The things I did cos I was lonely,
No good comes for free,
For people like you, and me,

She said:
"Babe, please,
Get up off your knees,
You should know I'm more easily pleased,
People say it's alright for some,
Lord, I dunno if I've ever been one,
And at least we can say, we had fun, ah,
Before we knew what to want,
Cos now the harder they come,
The worse I get done..."

And I will stop messing around here,
The day I get out of this town,
If there's somewhere to run,
Pass me the starter gun.

Vocals: Zygmunt Day, Sophie Jamieson. Guitars: Zygmunt Day, Giancarlo Grasso. Bass: Oliver Bissill. Drums: Joe Hyam. Glockenspiel, Organ: Zygmunt Day. Written by Zygmunt Day. Arrangement by Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure.

Tracks 1&3 produced by Zygmunt Day & Tim Kramer. Drums engineered & produced by Macks Faulkron. Mastered by Mike Hillier.

Track 2 produced and mastered by Rhodri Karim.

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Prisoner II Single

Musicians: Zygmunt Day (vocals, guitars, keys, glockenspiel, misc), Joe Hyam (drums, autoharp, percussion), Oliver Bissill (bass), Giancarlo Grasso (guitar),  Sophie Jamieson (vocals), Will Day (vocals), Tom Mellish (vocals), Conrad Steel (cello), Joe Murgatroyd (saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet), Angie Rance (trumpet)

Personnel: Tim Kramer (engineer, producer, Inert Productions), Macks Faulkron (engineer, REX Studios), Sam Killin (engineer), Mike Hillier (mastering)

Artwork: Elliot Kennedy (photography), Chris Nott (design), Ross Aitken (CPB Brutal font)

All songs written by Zygmunt Day, except Dirty Old Town, written by Ewan MacColl. Arranged by Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure. Produced by Zygmunt Day & Tim Kramer.


Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure - Prisoner II

Taken from the album "On Streets That Know". out June 21st

Musicians: Zygmunt Day (vocals, guitars, keys, glockenspiel, misc), Joe Hyam (drums, autoharp, percussion), Oliver Bissill (bass), Giancarlo Grasso (guitar),  Sophie Jamieson (vocals), Will Day (vocals), Tom Mellish (vocals), Conrad Steel (cello), Joe Murgatroyd (saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet), Angie Rance (trumpet)

Personnel: Tim Kramer (engineer, producer, Inert Productions), Macks Faulkron (engineer, REX Studios), Sam Killin (engineer), Mike Hillier (mastering)

Artwork: Elliot Kennedy (photography), Chris Nott (design), Ross Aitken (CPB Brutal font)

All songs written by Zygmunt Day, except Dirty Old Town, written by Ewan MacColl. Arranged by Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure. Produced by Zygmunt Day & Tim Kramer.


Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure - Dirty Old Town (Free Download)

With chalk, on the walls, we listed the names
That dented our hours like knees in wet clay,
And the sound of the rain came down through the grey,
Softly that day.

As time bears us back to places we've lived,
Our lives come as waves that break on a cliff,
And the sound of the rain came down through the mist,
Soft as a kiss.

And come, Wanderers, we'll go, home where the rains fall,
Come, Wanderers, we'll go, home.
Home to the hurt we know,
And home for the love we owe,
Come Wanderers we'll go, we'll go.

When you memory's loosened a while,
On the dreams you had as a child,
When the sound of the rain came down on the tiles,
We heard it for miles.

Stopped at the end of the street,
It was like meeting myself in a dream,
All of my memories were folding in,
And all the windows were listening.

Stopped at the streetlight again,
It was like meeting myself in a dream,
All of my memories were falling in,
And the windows were listening.


Musicians: Zygmunt Day (vocals, guitars, keys, glockenspiel, misc), Joe Hyam (drums, autoharp, percussion), Oliver Bissill (bass), Giancarlo Grasso (guitar),  Sophie Jamieson (vocals), Will Day (vocals), Tom Mellish (vocals), Conrad Steel (cello), Joe Murgatroyd (saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet), Angie Rance (trumpet)

Personnel: Tim Kramer (engineer, producer, Inert Productions), Macks Faulkron (engineer, REX Studios), Sam Killin (engineer), Mike Hillier (mastering)

Artwork: Elliot Kennedy (photography), Chris Nott (design), Ross Aitken (CPB Brutal font)

All songs written by Zygmunt Day, except Dirty Old Town, written by Ewan MacColl. Arranged by Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure. Produced by Zygmunt Day & Tim Kramer.


Echo Pressure - Wanderers

Uther Moads' remix of Prisoner II by Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure

Uther Moads - Imprisoner

1. Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure - Prisoner II
2. Uther Moads - Imprisoner (Uther Moads' remix of Prisoner II)
3. Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure - Come On Baby Please (feat. Sophie Jamieson)

Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure - Come On Baby Please

Taken from the upcoming EP "No Hood, No Dogs, No Food, No Drink"

//

Time is a funny thing; when you are working, time off is what you crave; it represents freedom, possibility; it is a reward for the work you have done, a rest from labour. When you are not working, or in and out of work, time only represents anxiety and pressure. Months go grinding by, rent is due again and again, and the future gapes ahead before you with the promise of nothing but more of the same. When you are under-employed, any free time you do have is spent chasing work, making phone calls, sending emails, and putting your CV on various websites. Time is precious and valuable to busy people; when you are not busy, that time is a burden, because it is time you can’t afford.

Doubts turn inwards, and the shame and blame of unemployment makes you wonder what is wrong with you. You can’t drink at the new pubs that have opened up in your area, with craft beers and £12 burgers; the flats that are being built on the brownfield site down the road are so unbelievably expensive that they might as well be on the moon. But yet, there are people who will buy them, there are people in the pubs, in the restaurants, so what is wrong with you? Isn’t this your home too? Aren’t you trying?

//

There Was a Person:

There was a person under the train,
Walked out of the station to wait in the rain,
The buses were crowded, though I knew a face,
Out the corner of my eye.

A baby was crying itself to life,
Italians talked on the seats behind,
Got off at St. Pauls, and looked up, and sighed
At the colour of the sky

Been keeping my notes in an empty can,
I scrape up the rent working cash in hand,
Still can’t save the money I owe the bank,
No matter what I try

And there was a person under the train,
In hours his name washed away in the rain,
Recover the hour, wipe the stain,
From the corner of your eye

Born with wings, never learned to fly,
We look up at life.
Train’s late, I don’t mind,
They’ve got no jobs, no, all I’ve got it time.

And there was a person…

A couple days work loading Luton vans,
I spoke to the foreman, it’s out of his hands,
Still can’t save the money I owe the bank,
No matter what I try

But I keep on trying, seizing the day,
I know all the right things, say them the wrong way,
I wait for tomorrow, see what it brings,
I know why the caged bird sings

But I just can’t find a place to begin,
I called up some people, they all said the same thing,
I wait for tomorrow, to see what it brings,
I know why the caged bird sings

//

Taken from the forthcoming EP, "No Hood, No Dogs, No Food, No Drink"

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Written by Zygmunt Day
Arranged by Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure
Recorded by David Hyam at Mr. Soul Estudio, Madrid
Joe Hyam: Drums / Percussion
Giancarlo Grasso: Guitar / Hammond
Nathan Kerntiff: Bass / Percussion
Zygmunt Day: Guitar / Synth / Vocals
Sophie Jamieson: Vocals

Mixed by Tim Kramer
Mastered by Mike Hillier

Echo Pressure


Echo Pressure - There Was A Person (Free Download)

Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure present MR. SOL

A track which attempts to answer the age-old question: "what would it be like if you were about to go on holiday with your mate but then you got really drunk at a housewarming party and woke up next to his ex girlfriend"

Taken from the upcoming EP, "No Hood, No Dogs, No Food, No Drink", out September 18th.

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Mr Sol:

"So I guess you heard the story,
Bout that thing at the housewarming,
I don't know quite what went down,
I'd had like six Newcy Browns,

Your ex-girlfriend, the actress,
She passed out on the matress,
I did shots with your brother,
How long have we known each other?

I was the last one upright,
That night, that night,
She woke up around three,
Still fired up on whisky,
That night, that night,
She grabbed me

Your ex-girlfriend,
The actress,
She woke up on my mattress,
Bruv, I am so sorry,
I guess we'd better cancel our holiday

Even when she was dating you,
She always kind of liked me too ;)"

[Saxophone solo]

//

Written by Zygmunt Day
Arranged by Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure
Recorded by David Hyam at Mr. Soul Estudio, Madrid
Joe Hyam: Drums / Percussion
Giancarlo Grasso: Guitar
Nathan Kerntiff: Bass
Zygmunt Day: Guitar / Piano / Vocals
Joe Murgatroyd: Saxophone
David Hyam: Percussion

Mixed by Tim Kramer
Mastered by Mike Hillier


Mr Sol

Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure follow up last year’s full-length, “On Streets That Know,” with their new Ep, “No Hood, No Dogs, No Food, No Drink”. The band, which also includes drummer Joe Hyam, guitarist Giancarlo Grasso and bassist Nathan Kerntiff, recorded the EP in Madrid at Mr. Soul Estudio with engineer David Hyam, Joe’s cousin, in the heat of July 2014. 

Once again, the band’s music addresses the difficulty and hopefulness of the UK’s current way of life. This time the band embraced more streamlined arrangements than the folk/drone of their debut album, drawing on rock, samba, disco and jazz rhythms. The new sound was made possible by the wealth of equipment available at Mr. Soul Estudio – a fully functioning Hammond organ and Leslie speaker, Wurlitzer and Rhodes electric pianos, a Yamaha upright, a beautiful vintage Gretsch drumkit and a wealth of guitars, basses, amps and microphones. 

The playing on the record showcases the newfound tightness of a band with a years’ gigging and practicing under their belts, capable of fleshing out Zygmunt’s songs and adding nuance to the arrangements. Given a professional environment in which to record, the band were able to stretch their wings and push their sound into new places, which can be seen in the expansiveness of “Find A Way Back Over” and the ever-shifting arrangement of “There Was A Person”. 

“The idea for these songs is that they would be long, but constantly changing in small ways, so that the same part is never played with the same arrangement twice,” says Zygmunt, “our aim was for the songs to evolve, so that by the end, they have arrived somewhere different from where they began – but are recognisably still the same. This reflects what they’re about – being caught in a constant way of life, but longing for change, thinking about it from different angles, and trying to make your peace, whether with the past, the present or the future. “ 

“That said, there is also a song on there about pulling your best friend’s ex-girlfriend and having to cancel the holiday you were due to go on together because it’s too awkward now.” 

The EP also features two spoken-word tracks recorded by Zygmunt in London, and once again features saxophone parts by Joe Murgatroyd, including the bonkers solo on the full-length version of “Mr. Sol,” and backing vocals from Sophie Jamieson. 

The EP was mixed by Tim Kramer and Zygmunt, and mastered by Mike Hillier.
credits
released 18 September 2015 

All songs written by Zygmunt Day 
Tracks 2,3 and 4 arranged by Echo Pressure 

Recorded at Mr. Soul Estudio in Madrid, Spain by David Hyam in July 2014 
Additional recording by Tim Kramer & Zygmunt Day 
Mixed by Tim Kramer & Zygmunt Day 
Mastered by Mike Hillier 

Echo Pressure is Zygmunt Day, Joe Hyam, Giancarlo Grasso and Nathan Kerntiff

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Nothing To Lose Except My Teeth

Find A Way Back Over

The Future That I Used To Have

There Was A Person

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPRZ1c5caIc

With an expanded palette of sounds, “Boats” finds Echo Pressure combining their guitar-based setup with electronic music, drawing on garage basslines, ambient leads and drum machines alongside their core reference points of indie, punk and widescreen rock music.

Echo Pressure’s lyrics are rooted in the daily experience of life for young people in a country increasingly stacked against them; “It’s gonna cost you more than you’re gonna get out of it,” the song begins, a familiar calculation for anyone struggling against the rigged game of housing, work and opportunity in modern London.

Lyrics:

It's gonna cost you more than you're gonna get out of it,
Sometimes you're happy just to have a reason to wait.
And you've been telling a lie so long there must be some truth in it,
Yeah, or just enough to keep a wise man awake,

But someone told me that I'm changing,
Looking like my father, harder, I've been,
Rolling, pitching, boats out on the water,
Trying to keep my head clear,
Trying to make a life here,
Hoping, hoping, hoping

And I, I, I, I, been telling a lie so long there must be some truth in it,
Well there is some truth in it for people I know.
And well, you're looking for a friend, someone to start again?
Well somewhere to start again, would be somewhere to start

Cos if it don't change,
I'll be bringing it home again,
Bringing it home,
Bringing it home

And if it don't change, I end up bringing it home again,
Bringing it home,
Bringing it home,

And I should know that, stop dreaming of a life I won't have,
Bringing it home,
Bringing it home,

And with the promise broken, we take the only paths that open, 
I'm bringing it home,
Bringing it home

Echo Pressure - Boats Out On The Water

Don't Leave Me Behind

Echo Pressure

DIY Band from London.

Zygmunt, Joe, Giancarlo, Nathan

http://www.echopressure.com

Bandcamp:
http://echopressure.bandcamp.com

Email:
echopressure@gmail.com

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