Cold Blooded Innocence

Originally Released 2002

Intro

Cold Blooded Innocence is the debut album from The Masked Musician, which comprises 13 original tracks. The album has been recorded over a 3 year period and contains some technical differences between the tracks due to tracks being recorded in two different studio locations, a changeover from analogue to digital formats and a improvements to engineering of the sound.

Track Listing

1. This is the Real World

2. And All Because the Lady Loves..

3. Tainted

4. The Last Goodbye

5. False Hero

6. Feel for Me

7. Not as Much as the Lies

8. Worst Enemy

9. Waiting for Nothing

10. Blind Man's Bluff

11. The Day I Stopped Caring

12. From the Playground to the Jungle

13. Never Known*

· The first pressing of the album (2002) contains an extra hidden track titled "End of an Era". The track is an untitled instrumental which was written on the spot to aid in some technical tests, it is an out-take from "The Day I Stopped Caring / Feel For Me" recording sessions.

Credits

All instruments and vocals performed by The Masked Musician.

Special Thanks to: Pete Hedley, David Spence and Wendy B. Scott for their part in making this album possible.

Background Information

When "Cold Blooded Innocence" was originally conceived, its track sequence was very different to what the final version has ended up as. At this time The Masked Musician was jamming with a man called Phil Beavis and was based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. The listing included two tracks that Phil and his brother John had wrote called "Welcome Back to Life" and "Bleed for You", there was a third track they had wrote called "The Bitter End" which was not to be included. The Masked Musician also wrote a track with Phil provisionally titled "1984", the pair later parted company when band prospects didn't work out and none of the said songs were used.

There were also some early songs penned by The Masked Musician himself, but these were either scrapped or rewritten as he felt they were lacking. After the split with Phil, he began jamming sessions with Pete Hedley, a friend from University. There were earlier demos of some of the albums tracks recorded, but these were re-recorded as they were of poor technical quality due to learning to use recently acquired recording equipment.

Technical Info

All tracks were recorded using the following:

Fostex DMT-8 digital 8 track recording machine

Dynamix 125W PA system

Shure Dynamic Mic

Fender Stratocaster Guitar w/cool rails twin coil humbucker pickup

Korg DW-6000 Keyboard

Watkins WEM Copicat

Boss Noise Gate, Distortion and Flanger pedals

Rockson Wah Wah pedal

Drum Sounds by Yamaha Keyboard (except tracks 6, 11 & 13 and some sounds in track 8)

Tracks 4, 8 & 10 recorded and mixed at Middle Street Studios, Spittal, Berwick Upon Tweed, mixed down to analogue cassette tape. These tracks digitally transferred from original master tapes using fibre optic technology.

Tracks 1, 6, 11, 12 & 13 recorded and mixed at The Crescent Recording Studio, Scremerston, Berwick Upon Tweed, tracks 1 & 12 mixed down via fibre optic link to digital minidisc master, tracks 6, 11 & 13 to be mixed down via fibre optic link to CD master.

Tracks 3, 5, 7 & 9 recorded at Middle Street Studios, mixed at The Crescent, with additional recording at The Crescent. Analogue/digital hybrid.

Track 2 recorded at Middle Street Studios, mixed down to digital source at The Crescent.

Tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 all use keyboard generated drum sounds.

Tracks 6 & 11 use sampled drum sounds.

Tracks 4 & 8 use majority keyboard drum sounds, with some cymbal sounds sampled.

All guitar sounds were DI to the desk except tracks 6, 11 & 13 which were miked up.

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