Deluxe 2CD mediabook version of the 2020 Partial re-recording and remix of the band's celebrated 2009 debut studio album.
With CD of unreleased tracks, including the new single 'Technicolour Afterlife' (written in 2004), and the unreleased 'lost' epic 'The Life not Taken' recorded in 2020 and 2021 by the band's current line-up; and live tracks recorded across the world throughout the band's career.
With full sleeve notes by the band and photography and design by the band's long term collaborator, Tim Neill.
Includes unlimited streaming of 230503 (Deluxe Anniversary Edition)
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
In the 1990's and early 2000's, the Annandale is Sydney was a legendary venue that almost every band aspired to play as it was the launchpad for many of Australia's most celebrated artists.
Anubis, of course, was no exception and when we finally got our chance to play the venue on May 16th 2010, performing '230503' in full to an enthusiastic audience, it was always going to be a memorable show.
We had debuted the piece in full a month earlier in a well received but technically disastrous performance that had the distinction of being Dean's first performance with the group. This is his second show as a member of Anubis. The show was made even more memorable for being invited to join the fledgling Bird's Robe Records roster by Mike Solo backstage; with him committing to take on and work the follow up album that we were by then fairly deeply immersed in.
This show was not only the last time we performed the whole 70 minute album as a full piece but also the final show before we started introducing material later to be released on 'A Tower of Silence'.
The performance itself has long been, in my view, one of early Anubis' best shows and has some really strong moments. Like many of the earliest Anubis shows, we had been influenced by the power and chaos of bands like The Mars Volta and that energy and influence filters through the performance here, resulting in a much more raw, loud and aggressive performance with some unpredictable twists and turns.
Listening now, there are moments in 'The Bond of Mutual Distrust' which sound like a vastly different band to the one that exists now; and in fairness, it was powered by a totally different mindset. Looking back, it does have a charm that's unique and unlike anything on our later official live records.
The audio was multi-tracked on the night to a primitive 16 track digital recorder with sync problems, straight out from the desk. The sound guy that night did not mic Steve's kit properly and as such the only cymbals that made it into the mix comes from a room mic - which means the audio had to go out warts and all. No fixing, tricking or overdubbing anything. Anubis goes punk. Between Dougie and I, we've done enough surgery to mix and master the show in order to make it sound reasonably listenable and a decent representation of what the show might have sounded like, but it's by no means a definitive live document of Anubis.
Even so, all of us agree that this recording evokes heavy nostalgia and is a tangible reminder of a time not so long ago where playing to big crowds in Europe or Japan or to any of you would have seemed little more than a far-fetched teenage fantasy.
Dave
lyrics
All that I've known
All that I've felt
Everything I've been through
Everyone I've met
Never, ever knew
What it's really like
To hold in the one hand
Believe in the right
Take my wounds
Patch them up tight
Discover my pain
And cure it tonight
One stolen kiss
That cuts like a knife
Scrambled my feelings
Straightened my life
Time has sent me away
Face to face, don't ever stray.
Don't ever...
You never seem to notice
when I know it's right
I've made my decisions
I'm leaving here tonight
Please stop crying
This river of tears
I have to be with her
And spend my life near her
One more time
Look in my eyes
Melt my soul
And say our goodbyes
Break my fall
Keep me safe
And tell everyone
They won't see me again
I can only make it
When the time is right
There's only one future
And it's looking so bright
GIve me all the riches
That life can bring
Open up to me
And you can show me everything
The moments tick away
More than most
I'm clearing out my closet
Like some homeless ghost
GIve me all the memories
Of this lonely taste of life
Cure me of this nightmare
Is the end in sight?
Anubis is a cinematic Progressive Rock band from Sydney, Australia. Formed in 2004.
The band has
released to date 6 studio records to date, 2 live albums and toured Europe twice. The latest album, ‘Homeless’ reached number 4 in the Australian Indie chart in March 2020. ...more
supported by 31 fans who also own “Leaving Here Tonight (Official Bootleg - Live at the Annandale, Sydney, May 2010)”
BBT are standard bearers for modern prog, with a sound that evokes the spirit of those legendary 70s bands whilst managing to also be thoroughly contemporary. It's astonishing that over 30 minutes of music of this quality, with such high production values, is being made available for free - and their full albums are also very reasonably priced... Eleventh Earl of Blah
supported by 30 fans who also own “Leaving Here Tonight (Official Bootleg - Live at the Annandale, Sydney, May 2010)”
Soothfully a phenomenal prog rock album—an instant classic. What motivates me to say so, is the music’s incredible expressiveness & its wonderfully cinematic song structures. Jargon is a very good fit with this band. It is quite evident that the band’s current lineup have great chemistry together & that they share a common affinity to this vein of music. I look forward to their next creation. Drifting Sun are definitely one of prog rock’s brightest lights. Thank you, DS!
9+/10. Alrihkh
The Long Island metal band's third album etches arena-sized hooks into their jagged compositions, deftly balancing experimental and poppy inclinations. Bandcamp Album of the Day May 12, 2022
Sustained by seismic psych riffs, proggy shifts, and vivid sci-fi storytelling, these Milwaukee cosmonauts command respect. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 29, 2023