Iain "Initially percussionist Dave Haswell and I created programmed arrangements at my home in Edinburgh's High Street from a demo recorded on a DAT machine of Mike playing songs along with a click track. I didn't have the studio set up at home at this point in 1994. The backing tracks for the album were then recorded at Dave's Cottage in East Lothian using an 8 track ADAT recorder, an EMU sampler, an Atari computer using Cubase and a Yamaha Pro Mixer. I hired in some great mics including 2x B+K mics for percussion and a Nuemann U87 for vocals. Doing it at the cottage allowed us loads of time to get performances we were happy with over a period of about 6 weeks. The gear was set up in a small back room but we had the benefit of several rooms in the cottage that all sounded great acoustically. Once we had established all the basic backing tracks and programming to everyone's satisfaction we took the recording to Palladium Studios where the ADAT takes were transferred to 2"tape using Dolby SR and we were then able to expand the recording having more tracks available for backing vocals and extra guitars and percussion. We then mixed the album using an AMEK Hendrix mixing desk with full automation over a period of 4 weeks. The entire album took around 12 weeks from start to end and on completion Mike got a deal for the album from Strangeways Records in Germany folowed by Demon Records in the UK. Recently a track from the album "Robert Johnson" (featured above) was chosen for Mike's best of album entitled Echo Back".