Tracks: The Long Journey Home – Part 1 [5:23] The Long Journey Home – Part 2 [11:12] The Long Journey Home – Part 3 [7:22] The Long Journey Home – Part 4 [6:08] The Long Journey Home – Part 5 [10:04] The Long Journey Home – Part 6 [9:06] Going to Find the Brontës (Bonus Track) [10:22]
Daniel Biro: Rhodes electric piano, (all instruments on ‘Going to Find the Brontës’) Rob Plamer: electric guitar
All music written, recorded and produced by Daniel Biro & Rob Palmer Except ‘Going to Find the Brontës’: music by Daniel Biro Recorded in London in 2003 Images by Jac Depczyk
It all started with the idea of two musicians, who had never played together before, meeting up and immediately recording their first session. And so, Rob arrived at my home one afternoon with his three suitcases of guitar/pedals/effects and off we went.
We ended up with three hours of improvisations which we felt might have some ‘moments’. That was Stage 1. Stage 2 involved a lengthy process of listening, editing, re-ordering and mixing finally arriving at the 50 minutes of music on this album. No other musical material or treatments were added to the original first-take recordings.
Be it a geographical location, a group of people, a childhood memory, or a spiritual ideal, ‘home’ is that special place we all long for. While making music with Rob I certainly felt very much at home.
Bonus Track: ‘Going to Find the Brontës’ was written for a poetry performance by Kelly M Pennhaligon in 1996. A sort of road-movie on the moors…
Original album released in 2004 This is the definitive version edited and remastered by Daniel Biro.