Iron in the Blood
a musical adaptation of Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore
performed by Jeremy Rose & the Earshift Orchestra
with Philip Quast and Bill Zappa

all works by Rose
*track 11 arrangement of Wild Colonial Boy (traditional)
all text extracted from Hughes' The Fatal Shore with permission

Jeremy Rose – conductor, soprano saxophone soloist (2, 3)

Scott Evan Antwell-Harris – alto, soprano saxophone, flute, piccolo
Scott McConnachie – alto and soprano saxophone (solo tracks 1, 4)
Michael Agenicos – tenor saxophone (solo track 4)
Matt Keegan – tenor saxophone, alto clarinet (solo track 6, 8)
Paul Cutlan – tenor saxophone, bass clarinet

Patrick McMullin – trumpet, flugelhorn
Callum G’Froerer – trumpet, flugelhorn (solo tracks 8, 10)
Charles Casson – trumpet, flugelhorn
Nick Garbett – trumpet, flugelhorn (solo tracks 7)

Mike Raper - trombone
James MacAulay  - trombone (solo track 7)
Eleanor Shearer - trombone
Colin Burrows – bass trombone

Joseph O’Connor – piano, harpsichord
Ben Hauptmann - guitar
Thomas Botting – double bass
Daniel Fischer – drums and percussion

Recorded 21, 22 January 2015 at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Bob Scott

The Earshift Orchestra