This Train EP, by Quintessence

This Train EP

by Quintessence

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1.	This Train 03:36		buy track
2.	The Boy with the Detonator 03:40	info	buy track
3.	Grasslands - This Train (Live with the Grasslands Acoustic Wonderment, 2019) - Bonus Track 04:52	info	buy track
4.	This Train (Live in Matt's House, 2002) 03:56	info	buy track
5.	This Train (Blue Carrot Monster Mix) 04:27		buy track

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Let me take you back to 2002 and my proto-Grasslands band: Quintessence.

I wrote and recorded ‘This Train’ with my acoustic guitar and an Alesis SR 16 drum machine. The track also features on Quintessence LP ‘Destroy All Conifers’.

This was my first release and was mostly handed out and sold to friends when drunk in Aberystwyth. Quite a few copies were also left in bushes and sellotaped to lamp posts around town (they may still be in bushes right now).

Originally there were ‘blue’ and ‘red’ versions of the CD with slightly different track listings. All the computer files for these tracks have since disappeared, so I have remastered the master CDs. I have also added the tracks from both versions of the original CDs and included a recent rendition of the song by Grasslands in the form of the ‘Grasslands Acoustic Wonderment’.

At the very least you get to see how my live performances of the song have changed over the past 18 years.

The crescendo of ‘The Boy with the Detonator’ will likely blow up your speakers, and the outro of the ‘Blue Carrot Monster Mix’ is beautiful.

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released January 1, 2002

Quintessence were Thomas Haynes & Phil White

Additional Vocals on The Boy with the Detonator by Carwyn Hughes

Matt Busuttil on bass guitar in 2002 (not that you can really hear him)

The Grasslands Acoustic Wonderment features:

Charlie Miles on Bass
Brendan Hamley on Percussion and Drums
Marc Henley on Percussion and Drums

This Train and The Boy with the Detonator written, recorded and produced by Thomas Haynes in a top floor flat in Aberystwyth, 2002.

Remastered in Neon Meadow Studio in April 2020.

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Grasslands is musician/producer and ecologist Tom Haynes based in Swindon. Grasslands is a fusion of alternative rock, electronica, found sounds and folk pollinated with information about meadows, grasses and the environment.

Grasslands performs in both electronic form (with his rig of synths, samplers and DJ decks) and as a more gentle acoustic act with acoustic guitar and occasional samples. ... more

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