forgotten tracks

 


releasedate: 2020, March 20
Forgotten tracks is a 3cd digipack

tracks:

CD1

1. Velvet Sky (long version)
2. Walkabout
3. Nightshift
4. Nova Zembla
5. Abyss		 11:59
11:37
06:34
13:34
12:00

CD2

1. Ice
2. After the silence
3. Mesmerized
4. Somniferous
5. Cadence		 16:04
12:49
16:17
08:47
10:34

CD3

1. Skyrider
2. Bird's eye view
3. Ghostly presence
4. Dreamtime
5. Departure 8 AM (long version)
6. The Tank Engine		 13:29
08:49
07:12
13:11
10:59
06:24

 

 


 
While cleaning up the harddisk of one of his studio PC’s, Gert Emmens discovered a folder with many unreleased tracks of Gert Emmens & Ruud Heij, recorded between 2006 and 2014. Gert and Ruud were not aware of the fact that they still had them, thinking they had got lost at some point. After listening to the tracks, both Gert and Ruud realized it would be a waste not to release them.

The tracks are chronologically ordered: 2006: CD1: track 1; 2007: CD1: tracks 2 and 3; 2008: CD1: track 4 2009: CD1: track 5; CD2: tracks 1, 2 and 3; 2010: CD2: tracks 4 and 5; 2011: CD3: tracks 1 and 2; 2013: CD3: tracks 3, 4 and 5; 2014: CD3: track 6

All tracks are previously unreleased with the exception of: Velvet Sky (in a shorter version, 7:14, on Analogy 2 (sampler), 2006); Departure 8 AM (in a shorter version, 7:49, on Gert Emmens - Outland, 2014); The Tank Engine (in a slightly shorter version, 5:27, on Schallplatte XVI (sampler) 2014).

All tracks are recorded in the studios of Gert Emmens & Ruud Heij, with the exception of Nova Zembla, recorded on February 2008 in Studio Dazzlin’ J., in Utrecht, Netherlands. All tracks are composed and played by Gert Emmens & Ruud Heij. Photo of Atacama Desert railway by Abriendomundo. Three photos of Gert & Ruud taken by Heike Mäder, on 2020, Februari 14 at Station Beekbergen, Netherlands. Three disc photos taken by Gert Emmens, taken 2019, July 17 at Arco de Baúlhe, Portugal. Cover design and photoshopping by Gert Emmens.