Recorded in Earls High School music room to cassette four-track in November 1995.

Duncan Smith: Bass
Owen Tromans: Guitar
Elizabeth Hamblin: Guitar
Paul Taylor: Drums
John McCann: Vocals

Fused: Ignition (From First Demo - 1995)

From the second demo, self-released as the 'No-One On The Road' cassette in 1996.

Recorded at Roadhouse Studios, Willenhall by Glen O'Carroll.

Duncan Smith: Bass, Backing Vocals
Owen Tromans: Guitar, Organ
Tobin Ablett: Vocals
Nick Stanley: Drums
Elizabeth Hamblin: Guitar, Backing Vocals

Fused: Lost Touch (1996)

Recorded live with Savaging Spires in woodland on the Clent Hills, Worcestershire.

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Owen Tromans - Queen Of Spain (Woodland Recording)

This is my first attempt at using the Hexadic Figure proper. It began as a collaboration with my dad who I was introducing to the Hexadic System. 
The figure generated for this piece had a C# centre tone. Within each progression I chose the tonal field with the highest assigned time card to create the riff-based 'guitar 1' sections and the fields with lower time cards to create the complimentary, and perhaps more melodic, 'guitar 2' sections. The solo was from the final generated tonal field. I filled in the octaves to have more scope on this one. 
Check http://www.sixorgans.com/ for more Hexadic goodness.

Second Hexadic Piece (For Two Guitars)

This is a hexadic sonification of Richard Brautigan's poem 'We Stopped at Perfect Days'.
There is more information on the hexadic system here: http://www.sixorgans.com/

The text of the poem reads -

We stopped at perfect days
and got out of the car. 
The wind glanced at her hair. 
It was as simple as that. 
I turned to say something--

Owen Tromans - We Stopped at Perfect Days (Hexadic)

Written just after 'The Fall of Acre' came out, this song never made it onto a live setlist. This demo was recorded at home in 2018. Included on 'Shots From the Vaults': https://sacredgeometryrecs.bandcamp.com/album/shots-from-the-vaults-2

In the blacked out back rooms of this nation 
We’re hammering out a hymn for unification 
‘Cause every mythology needs a little symmetry 

We set ourselves up to stagger and stumble 
Grasping at the light, the reach and the fumble 
‘Cause Acre was a man like me 
Digging on a different Trinity 

I got the Moon in a dead man’s cup 
Don’t take the path to the forest it’ll swallow you up 
So now we stick together on the two and the four 
It’s like Lucy said – sometimes you gotta make peace to win the war 

I got the Moon in a dead man’s cup 
Don’t take the path to the forest it’ll swallow you up 
So now we stick together on the Fallen Third 
Don’t live in fear – we embrace that terrible bird

Owen Tromans - Unification Jam (Demo)

Oh, the King is in the water, can you pull?
I see Saturn low, feel rocks scraping my hull
And my King is blue, a heavy-lidded son
Make a way through water, his body will come

We set his heart within these ancestral walls
The walls he built cast dreams upon us all
Survey this stage from high, to music with no end
Tell the man he could not love, he will see him again

Oh, the King is in the water, can you pull?
I see Saturn low, feel rocks scraping my hull
And if a cross stands in that water can you tell?
I buried the Moon King in the June of the chapel bell

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Owen Tromans grew up in The Black Country and led John Peel favourites San Lorenzo before pursuing a solo career that has seen him release several acclaimed albums and tour extensively, supporting the likes of Best Coast, Idlewild and Plush.

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