The final two songs – non-final mixes – from the "Covid Sessions / Mariner's Song Project" recordings of 2021-2022 by Ian McAvoy and Joel Flynn that began in San Jose, CA and Campbell River BC, then eventually migrated over to Vancouver's Podstream Studios for completion. Side A is a cover of Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" but done as a duet w/ the help of Rachelle Boily of Vancouver indie band The Broken Islands. Side B is a piano-only version of the Billie Eilish James Bond theme "No Time to Die".

*final mixes will be available for the NFT version, now that the house of cards has predictably collapsed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Mariner's Song Project - In Your Eyes (Single)

Recorded in April 2022 at Podstream Studios, Vancouver BC. Prototype mix. Production by Ian McAvoy in San Jose, CA. Vocals by Joel Flynn & Rachelle Boily a.k.a. the Flynn-Boily Initiative (FBI). Merchandise available at local Walmarts across North America!

https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/FBI-Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-Law-Enforcement-T-Shirt-M/3KTYLGKA8P8H

In Your Eyes *duet* (orig. Peter Gabriel)

A "weighty" interpretation, recorded in May 2022 at Podstream Studios, Vancouver BC. Prototype mix. Piano & production by Ian McAvoy in San Jose, CA. Vocals by Joel Flynn, with a call back to Chris Cornell's "You Know My Name" from an earlier Bond film...

https://soundcloud.com/podstream/006x7-life-of-a-spy

No Time To Die (orig. Bilie Eilish)

A piano version of an old Talk Talk tune from the 1986 album "The Colour of Spring", written by Mark Hollis and Tim Friese-Green. Music performed and produced by I. McAvoy, with vocals added remotely by J. Flynn in the online collaborative audio platform Soundtrap...

https://www.soundtrap.com/signup?ref=5f727ee0372826487781c7ec941db6b0

Living In Another World (orig. Talk Talk) - the anticipated "b-side"

Anthonys Song...a.k.a. Movin' Out (orig. Billy Joel)

Devil Woman (orig. Cliff Richard)

OLD ADVENTURES IN LO-FI... 

Next to a small little cobblestone street on the edge of Vancouver's Gastown used to be a bunch of rehearsal spaces for local bands, with all the aesthetics, trappings, and varmints of a set from David Fincher's Fight Club. Matt Wilson, the ex-bassist from from late 90s Campbell River rock band halcyon days had a shared room here with his other band and in late 2008 suggested to former bandmates Joel Flynn (vocals, acoustic guitar) and Derek Lee (drums) to come on by and make use of the space. After the sudden passing of Flynn's father in December of that year, the ex-Riverite singer needed some music to work through the situation. He recruited two other ex-Riverites, his nephew Luke Schuss on guitar and Erin Lahay on piano/keyboards. 

To honour the infamous old singing fisherman - Flynn's father Doug, who had moved on to Fiddler's Green - the five-piece put together a bunch of mostly Irish-themed songs to play at a St. Patrick's Day memorial at the Media Club. The nameless group continued to get together and learn songs, some new originals and holdovers from the halcyon days era, but mostly just a bunch of cover songs that were fun to play. Borrowing Flynn's nom-de-plume of that he used for his digital media art experiments, the band played one other show at the Media Club in July of 2009, but never did anything else outside the walls and microphones of, ahem, "Cobblestone Road Studios". 

Of course, "studios" is saying a bit much, as it is basically a 15'x15' room with some randomly placed microphones. These consisted of either a Rode Podcaster or an iPod nano with a Belkin stereo mic attachment, which were later thrown together into multitrack Garageband projects. Yet this bare minimal approach did the lo-fi job and the Campbell River collective continued to play away in the space until it was closed down in early 2010. Some informal recording took place during this time, but was more note-taking and reference material for the band members than anything else. 

Later in the year, while backing up all these recordings to a new hard drive, Flynn ended up losing most of them when the brand new drive crashed within a  week (damn you LaCie!). File recovery software couldn't identify the Garageband files, and the old "throw the drive in the freezer" last resort couldn't get the drive spinning. The still nameless band never ended up finding another full rehearsal space, or play another show as a full band, while the lost Garageband recordings are still sitting unrecoverable on the busted LaCie (with the eye-catching design by Porsche). 

FAST FORWARD: While rummaging through discs, drives, and other piled up office stuff in early 2011, Flynn came across an old recovery disc from the busted LaCie drive. On it were some raw and rough mp3s taken during the group's rehearsals in 2009 that he gave a listen. With Erin now on a two-year 'round the world adventure, and the rest of the band still in limbo with other projects and a lack of a regular rehearsal space, Flynn decided to collect and coordinate some of these lo-fi recordings through a SoundCloud page, which has now been repurposed for Podstream Studio's uses.