These were built on a foundation played by a power trio late 2009 through early 2010 with some overdubbed bass, voices, extra guitar parts and synthesisers.
Not long in to 2010 this band split up, so I had to make the best I could of the available material. I started getting sick around that time and this developed into a very difficult year of my life. After recovering later in the year, from 2011 onwards, my life evolved in a different direction for a while and I didn't get my studio going again until 2018.
All but one of these were mastered in 2010, but I dug up the Granite Planet track a couple of months ago, because I'd been working on playing the melody on the alto sax. So I dumped the synthesiser track and replaced it with a live saxophone track and completely reworked the production on the other live tracks. Unfortunately, we did that one early on and the drum part was not recorded very well, which improved as things progressed, so that was a significant challenge. You could probably order these five tracks chronologically, if you didn't know beforehand, by the quality of the drum recordings. I'm way happier than I was with the original - I've learnt a few things since then - although I am currently working on a completely new version of this track from scratch.