ARTiST: Phil Ayoub
ALBUM: Arrivals and Departures
BiTRATE: 171kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: CD Baby
GENRE: Rock
SiZE: 78.46 megs
PLAYTiME: 1h 01min 27sec total
RiP DATE: 2010-10-24
STORE DATE: 2010-04-10
Track List:
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01. The Bearded Lady 3:32
02. Get Out (Live a Little, Live a 3:37
Lot)
03. Basement 4:01
04. Flowers at Work 4:32
05. Body Language 3:25
06. Bad Habits 2:29
07. Thank You for Bringing Me Home 4:32
08. Goodnight Romeo 6:12
09. Ray of Light 4:43
10. Tara's Birthday 3:41
11. Things That Remind Me You're 3:08
Gone
12. Walk You Home 5:38
13. 32 Memory Lane 2:54
14. (silence) 5:03
15. Life Would Be Pretty Boring as 4:00
a Button Pusher
Release Notes:
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rrivals and Departures, the new record from singer-songwriter, rocker-folker,
coffee drinker, hookah smokah, and dog walker Phil Ayoub is finally cleared for
landing in April 2010!
The recordÆs 13 songs were written in terminals, coach seats, security offices,
food court Sbarros, on runways, baggage claim belts, during strip searches,
random bag checks, and $10 for 10 minute massages in airports and airplanes all
over the world. As well as in the kitchen of his parentsÆ house. Appropriately,
recording sessions for the album were split between Massachusetts and
Stoke-On-Trent in the U.K.
Arrivals and Departures finds Ayoub reuniting with Tim Bradshaw, who produced
his solo debut Schoolbus Window Paper Heart. Bradshaw, formerly with John Mayer
and David Gray, is a supremely talented multi-instrumentalist and an inventive
producer, and helped turn AyoubÆs mumbled song ideas on cassette tapes (yes,
Phil still uses tapes) into this record. It also features drumming from the ever
cool Kevin Figueiredo from the band Extreme. Perhaps the most astonishing
accomplishment of the sessions, though, might be the fact that Phil got the born
and bred Brit Tim to voluntarily drink and enjoy Miller Lite Beer (Official Beer
of the Ayoub Men).
Ayoub likes to say heÆs from ôBoston, RI,ö as he considers both the city in
Massachusetts where he got his musical birth, as well as Rhode Island, where he
grew up, home.
Having been delayed on the runway for slightly longer than expected, Arrivals
and Departures is the follow up to Schoolbus Window Paper Heart, which had Ayoub
performing in venues from the Viper Room in LA to Fenway Park in Boston, and
featured songs on such notable and respected stations as WBOS Boston, WXPN
Philadelphia, WBCN Boston, WDHA New Jersey, WHJY Providence, WXRV The River
Boston, WMVY MarthaÆs Vineyard, KEXP Seattle, XM Satellite RadioÆs XM CafΘ and
Sirius Satellite Radio.