Tuesday, December 22, 2020
ionisation
It was the Eighties. You likely had to have been there. Recorded, if memory serves, in the basement of Risley Residential College. Multitrack recording was unavailable/unaffordable, so each song was recorded in one take directly to final mix without overdubs. Davey Thomas engineered.
Personnel:
- James Jay Slawney: guitar, bass, vocals
- Michael Lang: vocals, bass
- Jeffrey Thompson: keyboards
- Jon Foote: keyboards
- Bill King: drums
All songs (c)1983 J. Slawney and ionisation
Poster by Charlie Grimm and Jon Foote, art by Charlie Grimm
Infant Lab was another project consisting of
- James Jay Slawney: vocals, guitar, rhythm programming
- Jeff Eldredge: keyboards, vocals
- Jon Foote: bass & synth bass
Here is 30 minutes of a live performance (the 60-minute cassette evidently ran out) in March, 1986 at the Nines
Track listing:
- Red Hour
- Better to Burn
- Hello, I Love You (Doors)
- Delay the Butterfly (lyrics: Emily Dickenson)
- Welcome to the Wow-Pow-Pow
All songs except (3) are (c)1985 J. Slawney