Special version of the second solo album by Mark Peters (of Engineers) featuring Dot Allison and BJ Cole. Comes in a gold sleeve and pressed on translucent red in ochre vinyl.
Includes unlimited streaming of Red Sunset Dreams
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Bandcamp exclusive version of the second solo album by Mark Peters (of Engineers) featuring Dot Allison and BJ Cole. Pressed on translucent red in orange vinyl.
Includes unlimited streaming of Red Sunset Dreams
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 14 days
edition of 250
20 remaining
Purchasable with gift card
£18GBPor more
Streaming + Download
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
CD version of the second solo album by Mark Peters (of Engineers) featuring Dot Allison and BJ Cole. Housed in a cardboard mini-LP style slipcase.
Includes unlimited streaming of Red Sunset Dreams
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Mark Peters’ second solo album ‘Red Sunset Dreams’ is the follow-up to his hugely acclaimed debut ‘Innerland’, which was one of Rough Trade’s albums of the year when it came out in 2018, it features a number of guest musicians, including former One Dove singer and songwriter Dot Allison and pedal steel legend BJ Cole.
Like its predecessor, ‘Red Sunset Dreams’ is an album about an imaginary landscape. Whereas ‘Innerland’ was an introspective psychogeographic trip inspired by Mark’s move back to his hometown of Wigan and the memories it stirred up, ‘Red Sunset Dreams’ looks outwards, across the Atlantic to the United States of America, but very much through a UK prism; a representation of the subconscious Americana that’s buried deep in our collective psyches.
The result is an incredibly evocative trip through the landscapes of old Western movies, exploring their links with the North West of England while touching on wider themes such as isolation, freedom and dementia. Sonically, it builds on the palette of the previous record with instrumentation equally inspired by the ascendant ambient Americana movement and classic country-rock. As a result it ends up somewhere between Acetone’s peerless ‘I Guess I Would’, ‘Diamond Head’-era Phil Manzanera and the dusty instrumentals on the second disc of David Sylvian’s 1986 classic ‘Gone To Earth’.
Mark has spent the four years since ‘Innerland’ recording and releasing ‘Destiny Waiving’, his third collaboration with Ulrich Schnauss, and recently followed up 2020’s new Engineers recordings (the ambient perambulations of ‘Pictobug’) with a reissue series of the band’s much sought after early albums. He has recently put a brand new band together and will be playing a series of live shows following the release of ‘Red Sunset Dreams’.
credits
released September 16, 2022
Mark Peters: guitar, bass, piano, banjo, lap steel, synthesizer, ukulele, harmonica, percussion
Dot Allison: vocals on ‘Switch On The Sky’ and ‘Sundowning’
BJ Cole: pedal steel guitar on ’Silver River’
Alex Allen: drums on ‘Switch On The Sky’, ‘Dusty Road Ramble’ and ‘The Musical Box’
Matthew Linley: drums on ‘Sundowning’
All songs by Mark Peters (copyright control) except ‘Switch On The Sky’ and ’Sundowning’ by Mark Peters and Dot Allison and ‘Silver River’ by Mark Peters and BJ Cole
Dorothy Allison published by Air-Edel Associates Ltd
Produced, engineered and mixed at home by Mark Peters
Vocals recorded at Castlesound, Pencaitland by Stuart Hamilton
Drums recorded at The Ark, Liverpool by Steve Powell
Additional production on ‘Switch On The Sky’ and ‘Sundowning’ by Dot Allison
Additional production on ‘Sundowning’ by Andy Burke
Mastered by Tom Woodhead at Hippocratic Mastering
Artwork and images by Marc Jones
Artistic direction by Nathaniel Cramp
Special thanks to: Lorna Sergeant, Shirley and David Peters, Nathaniel Cramp, Clair Dolphin, Andy Burke, Dean Roby, Tom Bowen, Dan Macbean, Dave Potter, Chris Southern, Craig Sergeant, Scott Robinson, Darren Alderman, Nigel House, Lauren Laverne, Gideon Coe, Stuart Jones, Tom Sheehan, Chris Baugh, James Chapman, Jeff Barrett, Robin Turner, Chris Tomsett, Chris Torpey, Stewart Nash, Jonny Davenport, Gregory Euclide, Alex Ruder, The Musical Box, Mal Campbell, Miles Johnson, Peter Guy
supported by 77 fans who also own “Red Sunset Dreams”
I love the album and am making some deep grooves in Way of the World, Riverside, Sidewinder and This is Our Year. But I especially love Holiday in the Sun, as it’s so relaxing and relatable…
greggy
supported by 76 fans who also own “Red Sunset Dreams”
This is very close to what I heard/felt everytime we visited the grandparents in Runcorn.
Ominous dread. Bleak dystopia. Concrete and terraced houses. Plus the air smells! MonkeyMajiks
supported by 76 fans who also own “Red Sunset Dreams”
Keep coming back to this, just great music throughout that will also age incredibly well. What tunage the last one is, soundtrack of summer 2023 material for sure. kvkewn