Agitated Radio Pilot - A Premonition

Liner Notes by Dave Colohan...

The music on this EP, with the obvious exception of the first track (!) is an attempt to channel something more joyful & ecstatic than the Pilot is used to. The songs came out of improvisations & have minimal or no overdubbing. My favourite memories of these recordings are of Shane playing a prepared piano with a pair of car horns, while maintaining a perfectly serious face & on the other side of the country, in the blessed Venice of the West, The Phantom Dog doing his vocals on a chair...eyes rolled into the back of his Ghost-head, singing whirlwinds of ecstasy at the Moon. As ever it is a pleasure to share space in the music with Sean Og....who didn't even throw me out of his house when I asked him to play something "cosmic!"

1. A Premonition
Dave: voice, acoustic guitar

2. The Everyday Flow
Dave: voice, melodica, bowed bass, lap steel guitar
Aaron Hurley: voice, guitar/percussion, autoharp

3. Whale Bones on the Mountain
Dave: melodica, autoharp
Sean Og: piano, saxophone
Shane Cullinane: prepared piano, cymbals

4. Let the Wine Breathe
Dave: voice, piano
Sean Og: bass clarinet
Shane Cullinane: prepared piano

5. Song for Twilight to Sing
Dave: voice, lap steel guitar, tin whistle, autoharp
Aaron Hurley: voice

Tracks 1,3 & 4 recorded on Emmet St, Dublin
Tracks 2 & 5 recorded on Dominick St, Galway

Thanks to Keith Wallace for allowing us to travel along the Rusted Rail & Keith Wood for inspiring the title Song for Twilight to Sing.