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TRAVELLING THROUGH TIME
	01. Welcome to the Modern World 02. Losing My Mind 03. Travelling Through Time 04. Bad Mood Rising 05. Vision 06. Machine 07. Standing at the Crossroads 08. Not Hungry Anymore 09. Love Song in Dream Time 10. Circles (It's Gonna Be Alright)

Probe One Music POM-01, released June 2005

Zeptepi began when I first arrived in Australia in 2001. Initially it was just going to be a studio project, so I built myself a little home recording facilty based around a Yamaha AW hard disk recorder, and started work. This album was finished late in 2004, a collection of songs mostly written over this three year period. Of course, the beauty of not having a band is that you can do whatever the hell you like whenever the hell you like, and a lot of these songs were recorded straight after I'd written them. Several of them were recorded a few times in different guises.

Looking back, I can see that at this stage Zeptepi was really a continuation of my band The Debutantes, that I'd left behind in the UK. I was still enamoured with the idea of building up big epic soundscapes with swirling synths and lots of layered guitars - probably not exactly the sort of sound you want to aim for in a basic home studio! Two of the tracks - Machine and Vision - were actually old Debutantes' songs that had been written mostly by singer Reece Fairfield and rearranged by me.

The production here is, um, functional. It was a huge learning curve for me in every way, especially as I basically played everything on the album - vocals, bass, guitars, theramin, keyboards and drum programming. When I finally decided to get a band together in 2004, the new members (Bernie Dodd - drums, Justin Muir - keyboards, Stephen Oakes - bass) all contributed to the last track on the album, Circles. The overall sound is some way removed from the later Zeptepi stuff, a reflection on me leaving The Debutantes (for whom I played guitar) and trying to rediscover my own path now that I was working again as a singer/songwriter. Nevertheless, I can still look back fondly on this album and enjoy it, especially the stronger tracks such as Bad Mood Rising and Not Hungry Anymore.

A few early versions of the tracks were released on demos in 2002-2003 including a number of songs that didn't make the album. Some of these will finally see the light of day eventually once I finally finish mixing them!
Phil