Release : Ant - These Long Dark Country Roads
Artist : Ant
Album : These Long Dark Country Roads
Genre : Indie
Source : Retail EP
Label : Acuarela
Cat. Number : NOIS066
URL : http://www.myspace.com/antonyharding
Street Date : 2009-00-00
Rip Date : 2009-06-17
Encoder : LAME3.97 / -V2 --vbr-new
Quality : 146kbps 44100Hz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 6
Time : 18:46 min
Size : 20.74 MB
01 Time I Was Gone 3:08
02 These Long Dark Country Roads 3:04
03 Come To The Phone 2:35
04 Smile Your Best Smile 3:59
05 Magpies 3:33
06 Wherever You Go 2:27
Antony Harding, former drummer of Hefner (the British cult band), returns
after three years of silence with These Long Dark Country Roads, an
exclusive mini-album for Acuarela, that features collaborations with his
friends and exûband mates in Hefner Darren Hayman and Jack Hayter (and his
son), as well as help from members of Cornershop.
Antony Harding started writing his own songs under the moniker ANT eight
years ago, short before the band he used to play drums in (Hefner) ended,
releasing a couple of low key singles and the EP Cures For Broken Hearts
(Fortune & Glory, 00) plus the recording of a four song session for The
John Peel Show. He then released his debut album A Long Way To Blow A Kiss
(also on Fortune & Glory) in 2002. After that he moved to Malm÷ (Sweden),
became married and started the raising of a family.
He then signed a deal with Italian label Homesleep Records in 2003 who
released ANT's second mini album also recorded at home called Floating On
The Breeze and returned to Fortune and Glory Records to release his first
compilation album Sad To See It's Morning in 2004, featuring all the
singles and B-sides and rarities ANT had released up to that point. In 2005
he collaborated once again with Hefner band-mate Darren Hayman, providing
acoustic guitar, backing vocals and percussion on the track ôThe Light In
Her Roomö on Darren's solo EP Cortinaland on Acuarela.
His second solo album, Footprints Through The Snow was recorded in Bologna
(Italy) and was released in March 2006 on Homesleep Records. ANT also
recorded a 4 song session for BBC6's Tom Robinson show on a visit to London
in March 2006.
A sense of home warmth that fills each of his records and now comes back
after almost three years with These Long Dark Country Roads, six tracks
recorded at home with the help of Darren Hayman, who played ukulele and
melotron on ôTime I Was Goneö, an opening track that sets the pace and mood
for the following eighteen minutes, all covered in a tender feeling of
routine, itÆs simple pleasures and difficult choices. Other recording pals
include Jack Hayter (another ex-Hefner); who played mouth organ and slide
guitar on the beautiful ballad ôMagpiesö, helped by his son James on
tablas, or Tjinder Singh and James Milne (both of Cornershop) as bass
players on ôThese Long Dark Country Roadsö.
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