The fellas behind The Nehemiah Band have been on the quiet side as of late however I was pleasantly surprised to learn that they have a new EP out called Awaken the Dawn. It’s very short in length, at only 3 tracks it’s actually more of a demo and serves as a rehash of some older and unreleased material. There’s actually quite a bit of history behind each of the tracks but I’ll let you read their words about it because they describe it better than I ever could.
“Awaken the Dawn” and “Rice, Kimchee and Eggs (RKE)” are two songs we play at nearly every gig, but we haven’t properly released either of the songs.
Awaken the Dawn was originally found on Mike’s collaborative effort with Jaeson Ma (Namesake: bit.ly/kdChko) that was released back in 2007. We tried to release an Awaken the Dawn 2.0 on Break of Dawn, but after we started recording…we didn’t like what we created. Thus, scrapped it and told ourselves we’d re-record it someday.
RKE on the other hand, could be found on the Break of Dawn album if you popped in the cd and searched for it on your computer; however, we feel that this new version is finally in-line with how we want the song to sound. Descry thinks it’s because he actually cooked an egg before the song started, but Kevin thinks it’s because of his enhanced opera man section. You be the judge.
Both versions were recorded/mastered by Feats in Inches drummer (and Descry’s younger brother), Steve Lee (check out Feats in Inches here: featsininches.bandcamp.com)
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