Terror Man 01 - Production Notes

Track Name:   	Clown Island 
Album: 	  		Terror Man
Track No:     		01  

Started:          	Friday 22nd December 2023
Completed:  		Friday 16th February 2024

BPM:  			180

Instruments 

Guitar: 			Fender Chris Shiflett Telecaster Deluxe
Bass: 			Warwick Adam Clayton Signature
Drums:			Toontrack Superior Drummer 3

Recording Setup 

DAW:               	Apple Logic Pro X
Interface:           	Audient EVO 16

Guitar Setup:    	SSL Guitarstrip
				Neural DSP - Archetype Petrucci
				SSL X-Limit (Lead)
				SSL X-Delay (Lead Bus)
				SSL Fusion Stereo Image (Lead Bus)
Bass Setup:		Ampeg Portaflex PF-500
				Darkglass DFZ
				Harrison Bass Flow
				SSL Blitzer
				Neural DSP - Darkglass Ultra
				SSL Guitarstrip
				SSL X-Limit
Drum Setup:		EZ Drummer Pop Punk Kit
				SSL Native X-EQ 2
				SSL Native Drumstrip v6
				SSL Fusion Vintage Drive
				SSL LMC+
				SSL Fusion HF Compressor
				SSL Fusion Violet EQ
				SSL 4K B
Master Mix:		Slate Digital FG-X 2
				SSL Native Bus Compressor 2
				SSL Fusion Stereo Image
				T-RackS Master Match
Other Plugins:	SSL Native Suite

Terror Man

Clown Island

“Songs of grace and wit” - The Musician. 
“A voice and sentiment to lift you from your slumber” - Fatea Records.
“This will get in your head” - BBC Introducing.
“Rare vocal tone, melodies performed tenderly by the whole group" - Radicals Rising. "Powerful voice, good-time backing vocals" Here Comes The Flood.   "Beautifully crafted songs with bite and edge"- Mind, Body & Boogie festival. "Great guitar work" - Chronicle Newspapers. "Powerful lyrics and absorbing melodies" - Nigel Stonier. "In all honesty the closest I've seen in recent times to a passionate vocal like this (John Martyn) was Jonathan Tarplee and The BlueYellows", "Great..passionate vocals, live music goodness!;- The Hop Pole. "Fine, powerful and melodic guitaring" - F. Scott Corrigan. “I recently saw you perform live and was really inspired” (email). fantastic guitar playing!" (facebook comment).

Jonathan has performed solo shows supporting the likes of Gilmore Roberts, Nick Harper,  Attila the Stockbroker and playing venues mainly around the North including The Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival, The Greystones, Liverpool International Festival, The International Eisteddfod (Folk-Friday), The Lomax, The Nantwich Words & Music Festival, Manchester's Northern Quarter and so on. He has also written music used by the BBC and Surfers Against Sewerage! 

His song No Tobacco, No Jesus, an infectious earworm with his  band The Blue Yellows, became the summer anthem of 6 Towns Radio before Jonathan re-emerged with his solo album as a contemporary, edgy folk-troubadour with a soulful intensity.

Sounds like (according to others); Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, The Dandy Warhols, John Martyn, Neil Young, The The.

Clown Island

Wayofthebob