Yawning Sons/WaterWays

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Yawning Sons/WaterWays
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EP by
Yawning Sons and WaterWays
ReleasedDecember 24, 2010 (2010-12-24)
Genre
Length9:25
Label SpaceAge & Cheesecake
Yawning Sons chronology
Ceremony to the Sunset
(2009)		Yawning Sons/WaterWays
(2010)

Yawning Sons/WaterWays is a split extended play by the collaborative musical projects Yawning Sons and WaterWays. It was released on December 24, 2010 by SpaceAge & Cheesecake Records. The EP is the second release from Yawning Sons, following up on their debut studio album Ceremony to the Sunset , and received generally positive reviews from music critics. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Contents

Production

Following the release of Ceremony to the Sunset, Gary Arce of Yawning Sons went back to the studio at the request of Linda Perry to record a series of tracks with fellow Yawning Sons member Mario Lalli and Fatso Jetson's Tony Tornay at the Donner and Blitzen Studio in Los Angeles. California. [6] The new tracks formed part of a new band called WaterWays which, together with Arce, Lalli and Tornay, featured Abby Travis on vocals for a selection of tracks. [7]

WaterWays contributed two tracks, whose genre they describe as "aqua beat surf rock", towards the split, while Yawning Sons re-recorded and expanded one of the "Garden Sessions" outtakes from their Ceremony to the Sunset studio sessions. [5] The tracks were mastered at Abbey Road Studios in London. [8]

Promotion

On February 7, 2011, Nick Hannon of Yawning Sons and SpaceAge & Cheesecake Records owner Peter Peeters promoted the EP on FM Brussel's daytime metal show. [9]

Track listing

Side One – Yawning Sons
No.TitleLength
1."Garden Sessions I"4:21
Total length:4:21
Side Two – WaterWays
No.TitleLength
1."Bows & Arrows"1:34
2."Memorial Patterns"3:30
Total length:5:04

Personnel

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