Post by Jethro Tool on Mar 3, 2009 10:44:33 GMT
The Mangledwurzels long-awaited second album Wurz'ee II now has an official release date - and the band are now taking advanced orders to be shipped with a free bonus CD as soon as the album is completed.
Wurz'ee II is a collection of what is mostly the band's own compositions which they hope will stand up as a Scrumpy & Western album in its own right. It is a wholly studio-based album with much more instrumentation than you would hear at a Mangledwurzel gig. Seth is caught playing bass guitar and Variaxe as well as his normal electro-acoustic guitar, while Jethro has dug up some different sounds from his new Korg synthesisers. The band has also incorporated the drumming and percussion of Dozy Trowel - aka Cozy Towel from Seth's previous band The Glambusters - which adds a new dimension to the band's sound.
The project has been dogged with delays - back in July 2008, the band announced that they had virtually finished recording the first ten tracks for their new album, and were working on the final few. Then - disaster struck! The hard drive on the recording studio computer corrupted and all the band's hard work was lost. Even worse, in the depths of the credit crunch, it took an age for the studio to get the bank loan to buy a replacement! As a result it was late November before the band could return to the studio recording five songs which have never seen the light of day before - Five Miles A Hour, I've Been Everywhere (In Somerset), Listening To The Archers, Porthemmet and Somerset Maid. The rough mixes of these five tracks from the bonus CD What Rough Mix which will be given away to the first 50 people who pre-order the CD!
And that should have meant the end of the project, but of course then they had to start all over again with the first batch. February 8th 2009 saw the drums laid down for the re-recordings, and by the end of the month it is hoped that these tracks will be completed - again! Then it's just a matter of mastering and post-production, and off to the pressing plant. The band is hoping to have the album ready to distribute for a release date at the end of March.
And the album is taking shape nicely; permissions are being sought for the two parody/cover versions - No Sheep 'Til Ammerdown and I've Been Everywhere (In Somerset) - and the final track listing has been decided (subject to the necessary permissions, of course):
1. I Can Drive A Tractor
2. The Shepton Sheep
3. Cider Be Good For 'Ee
4. The Poacher & the Gamekeeper
5. No Sheep 'Til Ammerdown
6. Valleys Girl
7. Listening To The Archers
8. Porthemmet
9. Five Miles A Hour
10. Farrington Gurney
11. I Likes Cider (The Flatulence Song)
12. The Rat Song
13. I've Been Everywhere (In Somerset)
14. Somerset Maid
15. Beta Vulgaris Vulgaris (The Mangold-wurzel)
Wurz'ee II is now available for pre-ordering from the Mangledwurzels website at www.mangledwurzels.co.uk/ with the first 50 orders received being shipped with the limited edition (and numbered) What Rough Mix CD.
Wurz'ee II is a collection of what is mostly the band's own compositions which they hope will stand up as a Scrumpy & Western album in its own right. It is a wholly studio-based album with much more instrumentation than you would hear at a Mangledwurzel gig. Seth is caught playing bass guitar and Variaxe as well as his normal electro-acoustic guitar, while Jethro has dug up some different sounds from his new Korg synthesisers. The band has also incorporated the drumming and percussion of Dozy Trowel - aka Cozy Towel from Seth's previous band The Glambusters - which adds a new dimension to the band's sound.
The project has been dogged with delays - back in July 2008, the band announced that they had virtually finished recording the first ten tracks for their new album, and were working on the final few. Then - disaster struck! The hard drive on the recording studio computer corrupted and all the band's hard work was lost. Even worse, in the depths of the credit crunch, it took an age for the studio to get the bank loan to buy a replacement! As a result it was late November before the band could return to the studio recording five songs which have never seen the light of day before - Five Miles A Hour, I've Been Everywhere (In Somerset), Listening To The Archers, Porthemmet and Somerset Maid. The rough mixes of these five tracks from the bonus CD What Rough Mix which will be given away to the first 50 people who pre-order the CD!
And that should have meant the end of the project, but of course then they had to start all over again with the first batch. February 8th 2009 saw the drums laid down for the re-recordings, and by the end of the month it is hoped that these tracks will be completed - again! Then it's just a matter of mastering and post-production, and off to the pressing plant. The band is hoping to have the album ready to distribute for a release date at the end of March.
And the album is taking shape nicely; permissions are being sought for the two parody/cover versions - No Sheep 'Til Ammerdown and I've Been Everywhere (In Somerset) - and the final track listing has been decided (subject to the necessary permissions, of course):
1. I Can Drive A Tractor
2. The Shepton Sheep
3. Cider Be Good For 'Ee
4. The Poacher & the Gamekeeper
5. No Sheep 'Til Ammerdown
6. Valleys Girl
7. Listening To The Archers
8. Porthemmet
9. Five Miles A Hour
10. Farrington Gurney
11. I Likes Cider (The Flatulence Song)
12. The Rat Song
13. I've Been Everywhere (In Somerset)
14. Somerset Maid
15. Beta Vulgaris Vulgaris (The Mangold-wurzel)
Wurz'ee II is now available for pre-ordering from the Mangledwurzels website at www.mangledwurzels.co.uk/ with the first 50 orders received being shipped with the limited edition (and numbered) What Rough Mix CD.
