LONG EARTH is a prog rock band from Scotland.
Coming together through a series of unexpected but fortunate events, five musicians, some of whom had played together decades earlier in Scottish prog stalwarts Abel Ganz, who just wanted to create good music and have fun. By strange coincidence, Mike, Ken, Gordon, Renaldo and Hew all played at the same Glasgow Festival in the
80s... but in 3 different bands! In 2017 LONG EARTH released their debut album "The Source", proving popular with both prog fans, DJs and rock writers alike, and began building a local audience at their gigs around Glasgow. "The Source" was a serious statement of intent, showcasing the instrumental and songwriting prowess of the band. However, their distinctive identity was not fully formed until the arrival of Martin Haggarty as the band's new vocalist in 2018 during the writing sessions for the second album, the album that was to become "Once Around The Sun". Personnel:
Mike Baxter (keyboards) was a feature of the vibrant Glasgow music scene during the late 70s and 80s, notably with Shoot The Moon, Glas Clas and Identity Crisis amongst many others. It was during Mike's time with Identity Crisis that he played with Gordon, rehearsing and recording in Edinburgh. Gordon Mackie (bass) has a background in music spanning more than 40 years. During the 80's he provided the bottom end and drive for Cry Wolf and seminal Glasgow prog rock band Abel Ganz. Gordon recorded "Gullible's
Travels" with Ganz and played a lot of great live gigs throughout Scotland including the Kelvingrove Festival. Moving into the 90's, following a move to Edinburgh; a chance meeting in a supermarket saw Gordon hooking up with Mike in Identity Crisis. Ken Weir (drums & percussion) was the original drummer in Abel Ganz recording "Gratuitous Flash" and "Gullible's Travels" along with Hew Montgomery and Gordon Mackie - the band also featuring Martin Haggarty for a while. Thirty years later, the four of them would work together again in LONG EARTH. Ken's sister Connie is also responsible for LONG EARTH's artwork. Renaldo McKim (guitar) joined LONG EARTH at the latter stages of the recording of debut album "The Source". Renaldo has played with many bands over the years, latterly with Suicide Underground, and now LONG EARTH. Martin Haggarty (vocals) joined LONG EARTH in June 2018. Martin formed Glasgow Indie outfit Lost Weekends in 1983, before joining Abel Ganz where he replaced Alan Reed, who had left for Pallas. Martin then joined short-lived proggers Masque in 1986, before forming Field of Vision in 1987. After 4 years, Field of Vision took a hiatus that lasted until 2013, when the 3 core members reformed to write new music, some of which featured on 2015's
"Vicissitudes of Life" EP, and 2016 single "The Dagger". Field of Vision continue to write and record as a studio-only project, but with a desire to return to live music and a surplus of musical ideas, the opportunity to join some former bandmates in LONG EARTH was too good to resist. The final cog in the wheel is Hew Montgomery, (Abel Ganz / Comedy Of Errors / Grand Tour) who has been a motivating factor in LONG EARTH, and co-producer of both "The Source" and new album "Once Around the Sun". On 19 March 2020, the new album "Once Around the Sun" was released on CD.
The band is booked to play selected gigs and festivals around the UK throughout 2020 and 2021, and have already started writing new material for a third album.
2017 - The Source [GTM CD003]
Трэклист: 1. Through The Void (3:53)
2. The Source (6:44)
3. First Steps (1:40)
4. The Call (7:57)
5. Invisible (6:50)
6. Above And Beyond (2:14)
7. Ghosts (6:01)
8. Her Ghost In The Fog (7:45)
9. Where Is The Laughter (6:56)
10. Children Of War (8:45)
11. The Deafening Silence (4:55) Total Time: 63:40 Музыканты: - Mike Baxter / Keyboards
- Neil Mackie / Guitar & Vocals
- Gordon Mackie / Bass
- Ken Weir / Drums, Percussion & Vocals
- Renaldo McKim / Lead Guitar & Vocals
EAC log
Exact Audio Copy V1.6 from 23. October 2020 EAC extraction logfile from 21. February 2021, 19:05 Long Earth / The Source Used drive : ASUS DRW-24B1LT Adapter: 1 ID: 2 Read mode : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache : Yes Make use of C2 pointers : No Read offset correction : 6 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000 Used output format : User Defined Encoder Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s Quality : High Add ID3 tag : No Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\FLAC_1.3.3\Win64\flac.exe Additional command line options : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "COMMENT=ripped by wurensh for rutr.life" %source% -o %dest% TOC of the extracted CD Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector --------------------------------------------------------- 1 | 0:00.00 | 3:52.71 | 0 | 17470 2 | 3:52.71 | 6:44.20 | 17471 | 47790 3 | 10:37.16 | 1:39.67 | 47791 | 55282 4 | 12:17.08 | 7:57.24 | 55283 | 91081 5 | 20:14.32 | 6:49.49 | 91082 | 121805 6 | 27:04.06 | 2:14.06 | 121806 | 131861 7 | 29:18.12 | 6:01.15 | 131862 | 158951 8 | 35:19.27 | 7:44.49 | 158952 | 193800 9 | 43:04.01 | 6:56.13 | 193801 | 225013 10 | 50:00.14 | 8:44.70 | 225014 | 264383 11 | 58:45.09 | 4:55.04 | 264384 | 286512 Range status and errors Selected range Filename Y:\EAC\wurensh\Long Earth\Long Earth - The Source.wav Peak level 89.3 % Extraction speed 8.9 X Range quality 100.0 % Test CRC 688AA824 Copy CRC 688AA824 Copy OK No errors occurred AccurateRip summary Track 1 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [671D9C01] (AR v2) Track 2 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [F1C515AA] (AR v2) Track 3 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [265035F5] (AR v2) Track 4 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [30669FC4] (AR v2) Track 5 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [36573858] (AR v2) Track 6 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [34197E3E] (AR v2) Track 7 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [54E2493E] (AR v2) Track 8 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [C595819D] (AR v2) Track 9 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [113EC1A8] (AR v2) Track 10 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [F3B0CD0B] (AR v2) Track 11 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [9DA16A1C] (AR v2) All tracks accurately ripped End of status report ==== Log checksum CF43A570A0BE1351B6057D811EE72728591EFC92CF57DC3A89B7A13CB306AFCC ====
CUE sheet
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foobar2000 1.3.8 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date: 2021-02-21 19:12:40 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed: Long Earth / The Source -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR Peak RMS Duration Track -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR7 -0.98 dB -9.09 dB 3:53 01-Through The Void DR9 -1.00 dB -11.94 dB 6:44 02-The Source DR7 -1.00 dB -8.77 dB 1:40 03-First Steps DR7 -1.00 dB -9.33 dB 7:57 04-The Call DR12 -1.39 dB -17.00 dB 6:50 05-Invisible DR9 -1.12 dB -12.81 dB 2:14 06-Above And Beyond DR9 -1.00 dB -12.49 dB 6:01 07-Ghosts DR10 -1.00 dB -12.78 dB 7:45 08-Her Ghost In The Fog DR11 -1.09 dB -14.00 dB 6:56 09-Where Is The Laughter DR11 -1.60 dB -15.51 dB 8:45 10-Children Of War DR10 -1.05 dB -13.02 dB 4:55 11-The Deafening Silence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of tracks: 11 Official DR value: DR9 Samplerate: 44100 Hz Channels: 2 Bits per sample: 16 Bitrate: 846 kbps Codec: FLAC ================================================================================
TAU data
2020 - Once Around The Sun [GTM CD005]
Трэклист: 1. We Own Tomorrow (8:07)
2. My Suit of Armour (5:03)
3. A Guy from Down the Road (12:00)
4. What About Love? (4:23)
5. The Man in the Mirror (4:16)
6. Once Around the Sun
- Spring (5:13)
- Summer (7:41)
- Autumn (7:38)
- Winter (12:32) Total Time 66:53 Музыканты: - Martin Haggarty / Lead & Backing Vocals
- Renaldo McKim / Electric Guitars, Acoustic Guitars, Ambient Guitars
- Mike Baxter / Piano, Synthesizers, Hammond C3
- Gordon Mackie (Abel Ganz) / Bass, Fretless Bass, Moog Bass Pedals
- Ken Weir (Abel Ganz) / Drums, Percussion
EAC log
Exact Audio Copy V1.6 from 23. October 2020 EAC extraction logfile from 21. February 2021, 19:45 Long Earth / Once Around The Sun Used drive : ASUS DRW-24B1LT Adapter: 1 ID: 2 Read mode : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache : Yes Make use of C2 pointers : No Read offset correction : 6 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000 Used output format : User Defined Encoder Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s Quality : High Add ID3 tag : No Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\FLAC_1.3.3\Win64\flac.exe Additional command line options : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "COMMENT=ripped by wurensh for rutr.life" %source% -o %dest% TOC of the extracted CD Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector --------------------------------------------------------- 1 | 0:00.00 | 8:06.70 | 0 | 36519 2 | 8:06.70 | 5:02.57 | 36520 | 59226 3 | 13:09.52 | 12:00.04 | 59227 | 113230 4 | 25:09.56 | 4:23.13 | 113231 | 132968 5 | 29:32.69 | 4:15.53 | 132969 | 152146 6 | 33:48.47 | 5:13.33 | 152147 | 175654 7 | 39:02.05 | 7:40.57 | 175655 | 210211 8 | 46:42.62 | 7:37.39 | 210212 | 244525 9 | 54:20.26 | 12:32.32 | 244526 | 300957 Range status and errors Selected range Filename Y:\EAC\wurensh\Long Earth\Long Earth - Once Around The Sun.wav Peak level 98.0 % Extraction speed 8.8 X Range quality 100.0 % Test CRC 47677B10 Copy CRC 47677B10 Copy OK No errors occurred AccurateRip summary Track 1 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [2CDAFDF5] (AR v2) Track 2 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [B517A3FD] (AR v2) Track 3 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [6A29ECBE] (AR v2) Track 4 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [A9D080AE] (AR v2) Track 5 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [7FA0C359] (AR v2) Track 6 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [65EC0533] (AR v2) Track 7 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [A2DFDCF8] (AR v2) Track 8 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [5E7E217D] (AR v2) Track 9 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [34C2E77F] (AR v2) All tracks accurately ripped End of status report ==== Log checksum BBFD4E297ADA79E5A044731ACC858E21F0E7F7ADD3D03B9A41FD47C46A51ACD3 ====
CUE sheet
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foobar2000 1.3.8 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date: 2021-02-21 20:24:59 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed: Long Earth / Once Around The Sun -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR Peak RMS Duration Track -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR8 -0.18 dB -10.16 dB 8:07 01-We Own Tomorrow DR8 -0.18 dB -13.60 dB 5:03 02-My Suit of Armour DR8 -0.18 dB -10.69 dB 12:00 03-A Guy From Down the Road DR9 -0.18 dB -11.40 dB 4:23 04-What About Love DR9 -0.18 dB -11.65 dB 4:16 05-The Man in the Mirror DR9 -0.18 dB -12.58 dB 5:13 06-Once Around the Sun: i) Spring DR10 -0.18 dB -12.42 dB 7:41 07-Once Around the Sun: ii) Summer DR10 -0.18 dB -13.36 dB 7:38 08-Once Around the Sun: iii) Autumn DR10 -0.18 dB -12.74 dB 12:32 09-Once Around the Sun: iv) Winter -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of tracks: 9 Official DR value: DR9 Samplerate: 44100 Hz Channels: 2 Bits per sample: 16 Bitrate: 837 kbps Codec: FLAC ================================================================================
