We Are Privy

10th Anniversary Commemoration


Studio Sessions
Recorded between 03-08-94 and 04-07-94
The Toilet Bowl Studios
Soppy Bag Records
Vancouver, BC, Canada

 
Lineage:

Fostex 4 Track Master Cassettes (Maxell II-S) > Audio Cassette (Sony UX-Pro) > Soundforge 6.0 (Capture) > CDWave 1.93 Beta (Track Split) > FLAC 1.1.0 (0 Level Encoding)

Sessions engineered and recorded by Mark Humeniuk
A/D Transfer and Seed by Gerstyn

Disc 1/1:

1. Invasion of the Week-Peeking Ducks in Rowboats (12:55)
a) Midnight Disembarkment
b) Battle on the Beach
c) Dawn's Early Light

2. I am Privy (16:21)
3. The Dolphin (8:39)

Band:

Yrag Fforbob - Samick and Ibanez electric basses
Mark Humeniuk - Larrivee and Gibson electric guitars
Randolph Jordan - Fender Rhodes electric piano and Yamaha digital piano
John Larrivee Jr. - Nice Red Drum Set

Thanks to Dave Cook for neighbor relations during jam sessions

Tracks 1 + 3 written by Randolph Jordan
Track 2 written by Mark Humeniuk

Notes:

Well, this is pretty much all she wrote on the musical enterprise known as We Are Privy. We were trying to get a band together back in the early 90s and started jamming regularly. After a couple years with nothing but long drunken noodlings to show for ourselves we decided to get serious, come up with a couple solid tunes and try to get some gigs. So, we practiced our three main songs for a while and then laid them down in these sessions. As fate would have it though, we broke up during the recording for reasons I can't really remember anymore. Something to do with "not enough discipline" or "musical differences" or "a lack of universal desire to get serious" or some such things. Anyway, aside from a host of very poorly recorded basement jam tapes, this is all we now have to remember the glory days by.

I always wanted this recording to have some life, having received pretty good feedback on it from friends at the time. 
It has never been released in any shape or form, and I believe that there are only around 10 copies presently floating around. I'm sure it would have landed us a gig or two had we used it as a demo. But alas, paths often diverge and here we are 10 years later. I don't know where the time went, exactly. It seems fitting somehow to commemorate the tape's 10th anniversary by seeing if there might be some interest out there in the land of "jam band" enthusiasts. These tunes are very much in the spirit of the "jam band," being entirely instrumental groove-oriented backdrops for improvisational exploration.  Enjoy!

With love,

Randolph Jordan
February 24th 2004