NEW SINGLE: Eddie Ink 'Home Sweet Home' + Album Announcement
Eddie Ink shares ‘Home Sweet Home’ single ahead of Daydream at Nighttime album release + Announces one-off Naarm/Melbourne show
“Making the album was an absolute pleasure, greatly enhanced by the level of care, love and understanding given by all the musos who worked on it. Thank you one and all.” - Eddie Ink
The upcoming album Daydream at Nighttime from Melbourne Blues crooner Eddie Ink is nothing short of a remarkable achievement, recorded before and through COVID-19 at Rolling Stock Recording Rooms, mixed and mastered by Tomas Strode and co-produced by Eddie Ink, Amy Jones and Christopher Windley. Daydream At Nighttime features powerful guest performances from friends fostered through his new community who have been inspired by Eddie’s songcraft, story and spirit and is set for release Thursday 20 April and will be celebrated with a live show with a very special guests Christopher Windley (Manglewurzle), Amy Jones (Rat Child), Christy Wositzky-Jones (Empress), Domini Forster (Lior), Zoe Fox (Zoe Fox and the Rocket Clocks) and Jordan Clay (Doe Eyes) at Thornbury’s Shotkickers with an early evening show on Sunday 30th April.
Before the album’s release, Eddie is gifting us with the new single ‘Home Sweet Home’, a song that was born out of an alcoholic haze after living in a tin shed in St Kilda for seven years and Eddie finally becoming sober and coming returning to society. The final chapter of Eddie’s emergence from a haze of mental illness and addiction onset by childhood abuse and Bipolar Disorder into songwriting and healing, “‘Home Sweet Home’ is such an anthem for Eddie’s whole story and the album. From the first moment, the driving heartbeat of Chris Windley’s kickdrum lets us know we are on an epic journey and the uplifting cacophony at the end (featuring a choir of voices, horns from Anna Gordon and a guitar solo from Dan Parsons) does not disappoint. I love this song, especially the outro which features a gentle yet playful solo guitar riff from Eddie after the huge build that comes just before. It’s as if Eddie’s walking off into the sunset with a spring in his step, now that he has found his community - his home - he is never alone, even if he is on his own. Home sweet home,” recalls co-producer Amy Jones.
Boasting 11 tracks oozing with classic blues tunes, each song tells an important part of Eddie’s journey to sobriety. The album’s opening ‘It’s a Wonder’ sets up the album by touching on Eddie’s past family life and overcoming the early traumas, centring through moments of reflection in ‘Sitting Here’, and Long Time Dead’s story of seizing life - “How long is life? We don’t know. It's best to get one with it now while you have the chance” - Eddie Ink. The Heart of the album ‘Death of a Chorus’ couples Eddie’s storytelling with strings, before stripping back for a piano vocal duo with Christy Wositzky-Jones (Empress, Rat Child, Skinny Wizard) in ‘Bury Me Standing’, and a heart-wrenching tribute to a dear friend for ‘Gael’s Song’s’. Classic and bluesy, ‘Moving on Blues’ highlights Eddie’s artistry through thoughts of moving on, and the first two singles ‘Fistful of Fingers’ and ‘Daydream at Nighttime’ put a positive spin on finding a way through and seeing things from alternative angles. The material moves through the latest single ‘Home Sweet Home’ and closes on a moment of historic vulnerability with ‘It Never Really Gets Dark in St Kilda’ - “The story of St. Kilda can’t be separated from folks like Eddie. These stories need to be told so we can be reminded of how the geography and culture of an urban place is really the product of those who live there and you can paint over that and shine it up but the heart of St.Kilda is and always will be in the folks like Eddie who call it home and who find comfort in its chaos.” - Amy Jones, producer (Rat Child).
Living his best sober life, prolific songwriter, Eddie is already busy writing his third album from his humble home in a St Kilda rooming house and convinced he is destined to live to 100 years, he is showing no signs of slowing down any time soon!
Eddie Ink - Daydream at Nighttime Album Launch
Shotkickers, 744 High St, Thornbury
Sunday 30th April
Supports: TBA
Doors: 7pm
$10 presale, $15 on door
Tickets via Shotkickers.com
Daydream at Nighttime Track List
1. It’s a Wonder
2. Sitting Here
3. Long Time Dead
4. Death of a Chorus
5. Bury Me Standing
6. Gael’s Song
7. Moving on Blues
8. Fistful of Fingers
9. Daydream At Nighttime
10. Home Sweet Home
11. It Never Really Gets Dark in St.Kilda
‘Home Sweet Home’ is out Friday 31 March independently via Bandcamp
Daydream at Nighttime album out Thursday 20 April via Bandcamp
‘Home Sweet Home’ Credits
Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Tomas Strode at Rolling Stock Recording Rooms
Produced by Eddie Ink, Amy Jones & Christopher Windley
Eddie Ink - acoustic guitar & vocals
Dan Parsons - electric guitar (Dan Parsons)
Anna Gordon - saxophone (Melbourne Ska Orchestra, Firetail, CLAMM)
Charlie Woods - trumpet (The Teskey Brothers, Charlie Needs Braces, SevenUps)
Christopher Windley - drums & vocals (Shotkickers / Mangelwurzel)
Jordan Clay - bass (Doe Eyes)
Amy Jones (Rat Child) & Tomas Strode - backing vocals
As immigrants and settlers sharing and creating music here, we acknowledge the sacred Songlines of the Traditional Owners of the land on which this work was made. These are the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, remembering the sovereignty and right to self-determination of these strong and resilient peoples has never been ceded.