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The Peach TreeThe Gus Sessions (May 1, 2005)

This was the first album released by The Peach Tree whilst the project was in its early stages and had more members. It was named "The Gus Sessions" both because it was Angus' solo stuff, and because there were plans to release accompanying solo efforts under the other band member's names: mainly "The Cooney Sessions". The band never got around to recording anything together though, or releasing any more band member's material, so as The Peach Tree morphed into Angus' solo project, The Gus Sessions was released as a lone soldier and cursory introduction to the depth and complexity of his work. It is very lo-fi and amateurish, recorded with a very basic set-up, yet despite this and perhaps because of it, the album has a distinct charm. It leaps about from moody sweet acoustic pop to techno to epic tales and synthpop, whilst staying consistent with themes of love, sex, drugs and dreams.


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Artist/Composer: The Peach Tree
Date: 2005-05-01
Keywords: The Peach Tree; music; creative commons; free; free music; The Gus Sessions; album; free download; acoustic; pop; acoustic pop; sweet; uplifting; sad; melancholy; lo-fi; poignant; synthpop; techno; genre blurring

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia

Notes

*When I recorded this I had no experience whatsoever with either recording or converting files to MP3 and uploading to the net.

*The crackle is due to the audio being fed into a mini-disc player, then back into the computer.

*These 128Kbps MP3s are the highest quality that this audio exists in (egads, I know), due to me converting the .wav files directly into MP3 (at 128kbps) and deleting the .wavs as I went. I know, I know, stuuupid.

*Many parts, particularly the synth, were recorded live with the rest of the audio as it went into the mini-disc player, meaning the possibility of doing another mix-down of these tracks is impossible.

*The only way to get a hi-fi version of this album would be for me to re-do everything from scratch, which I'm not going to do.

*Being lo-fi does not detract from the awesomeness of this album. Enjoy :)

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