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Because I'm A Giant LP

E.J. Hallows Album Art of Because I'm A Giant LP
Because I'm A Giant LP 06/09/2019

Tracklist:

  1. I Hate It Here, But You Are Here, And I Love You
  2. Spirits & Ghosts
  3. Cut Me Down
  4. To Sue, Too Soon
  5. Movie In Your Eyes
  6. Talisman
  7. There's Everything Else, And Then There's You
  8. Patricia's March
  9. Mayfly (One Last Perfect Day)
  10. On A Stage
  11. Beyond The Horizon
  12. Theme Music For A Princess
  13. Scared Of Everything
  14. A Most Unwelcome Encounter
  15. My Misery And Me
  16. Daydreaming
  17. Andy's Song
  18. Man-Made Masquerade

Credits

  • All songs written, arranged, and produced by Elijah James
  • Mixed by Tom Roach
  • Mastered by Tom Woodhead
  • Recorded at AMS&V, Elevator Studios, Canvas Sound
  • James Cudworth - Electric Guitar on track 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, Saxophone on track 1, 18, Clarinet on track 1, 10, Flute on track 1, 10, Banjo on track 7, Mandolin on track 1, Synth on track 18, Bass on track 15, Drums on track 4, 14, Percussion on tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 13, 14, Djembe on track 2
  • Simon Bill Gelling - Electric Guitar on track 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 18, Backing Vocals on track 1, 4, 5, 13, 18
  • Matt Kearon - Bass on track 18
  • Emily Vanlint - Violin on track 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 13, 14, 18, Viola on tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 13, 14
  • Rachel Wharton - Tenor Horn on tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 14, 18
  • Nathanial Gamsu - Piano on tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 14, 18, Organ on tracks 3, 13
  • Luke Moore - Cello on tracks 1, 2, 4, 7
  • Matthew Jones - Cornet on tracks 1, 5
  • Josh Betley - Trumpet on tracks - 6, 14, Cornet on track 14, Flugelhorn on track 14
  • Gareth Dawson - Drums on tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 18
  • John Mac - Bass on track 4
  • Jenny Coyle - Backing Vocals on tracks 3, 5, 13, 14, 15
  • Art design by Elijah James
  • Artwork by Jonathon Tottey

About

Because I'm A Giant is an album that from its original conception was ambitious in scope. It features 18 songs, was recorded over a period of three and a half years between 2015-2018, and is the product of travelling around the UK (mostly Liverpool) with a backpack full of borrowed microphones to various musicians/friends houses to track the parts I’d written. Although there's no overriding concept to the album, I was focussing on writing songs with narratives and creating characters with rich personalities and backgrounds. Its intent is an atmospheric and poignant journey through the magnificent highs and the necessary lows of growing up.