Psychiatric

Admission

1xLSDJ. Recorded from DMG.

One time I watched 7 straight episodes of the anime Michiko to Hatchin with one my best friends, which served as the initial spark of inspiration for this piece. Pic related.

Entered into BotB's Winter Chip XI.
Placed 3rd/256 total entries.

Thank you for listening <3

Michiko

Written originally in the summer of 2012, originally as an experiment with a combination of European folk and Chinese traditional instruments. 

Written and recorded by David Honour & Ivan Batchelor, with additional engineering during pipa session by Sam Redford of Forays

Mixed and mastered by David Honour

David Honour: Accordion, Guitar, Piano, Violin
Ivan Batchelor: Guzeng, Pipa

Spring Arrived At Lake Chew

The guitar is a strat (electric), which was recorded with a mic, and a DI simultaneously and subsequently amped. All 3 were blended to get the sound.

Backing vocals by Naomi Walker.

Plans

The first track in a small series of tracks from the 'b5 sessions.'

Will Of The Wheel: b5 Sessions

Ascent

D Is for...

Probably the closest thing to a dance track I've ever made.
Made entirely in the synth, so a very different approach to how I normally do things.

All Fours

Back in January 2009 I turned my parents house into a studio whilst they were away. I don't have any photos, but for once I wrote some notes about the recording...

1st Jan:
Morning - Build The Studio
Mics: Samson C01 + Samson C02 on everything

Afternoon:
Produced & Engineered: Alex Davies + David Honour
Strummy Guitar - Dad's old and slightly broken steel string yamaha
Picked Guitar - Dad's newer and warmer steel string yamaha
Mandolin - Dad's
Violin 1 - Main Violin

2nd Jan:
Produced & Engineered: Peter Hutchison + David Honour
Violin 2 - Great grandad's violin with a bow from a 3/4 size
Pizz & arco bass - Peter Hutchison

Produced & Engineered: Natalie Wren + David Honour
Banjo
Piano

3rd Jan: Pack up

The Studio House

This is sort of an apology that I'm never going to get, but it seemed very accusatory in the second person so... yeah.

I found it so hard to sing that I got some vocal coaching for this one (you know who you are, thank you).

Everything except the vocals and piano was made with a Korg MS10.

Coarse And Tired

Sunday In The Rain is a studio collaboration between multi-instrumentalists David Honour (also of the band Forays in Reading) and Ivan Batchelor. 
Genre-roulette budget-prog for people who like surprises, album over at www.sundayintherain.co.uk and yeah...

Velociraptor.