'Tide' Track List
Ignore the living world
A million faces
Pro Patria
The wrecking light
Cry out your name
Ishmael
The Bodmin horse
A song of the sea
The slaver
Armoriow
Solomon Browne
Simon
Lyrics - click here
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Janna Payne
The vocalist. Janna was raised in a traditional folk music background, but she soon took her
voice into another dimension by incorporating jazz in her repertoire, playing
and singing in numerous bands in the Nineties. Her beautiful voice is a key
part of the Eden sound.
Andy Brodie
Acoustic gutarist, mandolin and banjo player. Andy is a superbly-talented musician and much in demand. He
played in the Rhythym Doctors and Slim and Slam, and combined his time in Eden with membership of the
John Davison Trio.
Chris Payne
An interesting place in which to find the writer of 'Fade to Grey'! Nowadays Chris plays basically anything without
a plug on it; this means instruments such as
violins, crumhorns, cornamuse bombardes rauschfife and baroque recorders.
Tim Vince
Keyboard virtuoso. The only non Cornishman, but now made an honoury one. Tim
has played in a host of bands throughout his career including Barnstormer,
Fish Brothers, Kalenda Maya, Attila the Stockbroker, Chris Page (ex Horslips
and Beverly Martin).
Like a lot of the Coverdrive output 'Tide' was produced and engineered by the great Nigel Bates. Nigel also appeared
on the recording as a special guest providing electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass chapman stick, double bass, keyboards and programming.
Laura Heasman also provided some backing vocals.
'Tide' was Eden's debut album; it was recorded in the UK and France and was released in 2003. In common with many debut albums it received a lot of critical acclaim in certain quarters - and
sold very few copies! Certainly some folk purists found it 'too modern' and some modern music enthusiasts found it 'too folky'.
But due to the 'long tail' of the Internet it has continued to sell to people who can appreciate both, so it has found a
niche - albeit not a very large one. (Still, that's partly what Coverdrive is all about ...)
To keep down costs the CD was printed without a lyric book, but over the years we we have had quite a few requests for them. The
lyrics for the anthemic 'Solomon Browne' (a song about the 1981 Penlee lifeboat disaster) have already been reprinted elsewhere,
but you can now find them, plus others, here.
Sadly 'Tide' turned out to be Eden's first and last album; the band split up soon after it was released citing the inevitable 'musical differences' - perhaps
that wasn't too surprising when you consider the diverse backgrounds of the members. However the CD is worth checking out, especially
if you want to see how Chris Payne got
from the synthesisers of his Gary Numan period to Celtic Legend!
The album is still available, either as a CD or in downloadable form, from the shop. (You can find the shop in the menu bar at the top of the page.)
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