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Recordings: Chapelgreen

CHAPELGREEN is our latest recording, recorded at High Green Miners Welfare Hall in October 2001, and available from April 2002. The Musical director for this recording was Andrew Dennis.

The tracks on this recording are:

  • Chapelgreen
  • The Wind Beneath My Wings    
    (Trombone Solo: Andrew Hindley)
  • Birdland    
  • Hoe Down
  • Romance from the Gadfly
  • Batman
  • Stars and Stripes
  • Cornet Carillon     
  • Hot Toddy
  • Serenade
  • Farandole
  • Le Cor Vole
    (Eb Horn Solo: Suzanne Stockwell)
  • Toccata in D minor

 

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CHAPELGREEN is currently only available on Compact Disc, priced £7.50 (plus p+p) direct from the Band or from the webmaster if you have a Paypal account.

More information about the production of this disc

The recording engineer was WIlliam Langdale, and the production was done by our Musical Director, Andrew Dennis.

All the artwork (CD front and inside cover, back card and on-body print) was put together in CorelDraw and Corel Photopaint by David Morris. Duplication and printing was by Fairview Duplication near Hull. Fairview supplied the templates used for the design. Fairview are one of the few duplication services that can offer direct on-body printing instead of labelling the surface which makes for a more profession product in my opinion, but removes some of the flexibility because you're restricted to mono printing on the disc.

The ghosted image of the cornet was taken using a Kodak DC280 digital camera with the cornet sat on our kitchen floor! The resulting image was then traced using Photopaint to created a masked bitmap which was then dropped on to the front cover. Transparency was adjusted to get the right effect, and the colouring adjusted (more cyan introduced) to get rid of the 'gold' effect from the use of the flash and a less than clean silver cornet! The fonts used on the disc are Arial and Bank Gothic (a Corel font).

Although an iterative process, the production of your own artwork is rewarding, and can save the Band some money in the process.

Using the same themes, we've also produced some full colour A4 and A3 posters advertising the CD which we can display at venues we're playing at.

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