Eve of the War

For The Eve of the War by Jeff Wayne and Justin Hayward, see Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.

Eve of the War
A scene from War of the Worlds. Three flying saucers are above a war torn area. The lead one is shooting two rays below them. The undergrowth is afire. Behind the saucers is a huge moon. At the top right is the artist's name in large white and black-bordered print. Below in smaller but similar all caps is the album title. Below that is the additional phrase "From Jeff Wayne's War of the World".
EP by
Alchemist
Released1998/1999
RecordedJune, August 1998
Studio
Genre
Length37:22
LabelThrust/Shock
Producer
Alchemist chronology
Spiritech
(1997) 		Eve of the War
(1998) 		Organasm
(1999)

Eve of the War is a six-track extended play from the Australian progressive metal band Alchemist. The EP was released by Shock Records through its subsidiary label Thrust in 1998/1999. The title track, "Eve of the War" is a cover version of the opening piece from the British 1978 album, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. The EP has two live songs: "Yoni Kunda" first released on Lunasphere (May 1995), and "Chinese Whispers" from Spiritech (June 1997). The other tracks are a remix of "Yoni Kunda", and two re-mastered tracks from Jar of Kingdom (October 1993). A music video of the title track was provided.

The EP is now deleted, "Eve of the War" and the live version of "Chinese Whispers" were later included on their compilation album, Embryonics (November 2005).[1]

Usage in media

The song "Eve of the war" instrumentals were used in an EE[2] advert in the UK.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Rodney Holder, Adam Agius, John Bray and Roy Torkington,[3] unless otherwise shown

No.TitleLength
1."Eve of the War" (Jeff Wayne)5:16
2."Yoni Kunda" (live)5:32
3."Chinese Whispers" (live)9:30
4."Koni Yunda"3:58
5."Brumal: a View from Pluto"5:46
6."Worlds Within Worlds"7:20

Personnel

Alchemist
Other musicians
  • Josh Nixon – guitar (on track 1)
  • Mark Rochelle – keyboards
Recording details
  • Audio engineer – D. W. Norton at Backbeach Studios, Rye, Victoria, June, August 1998
  • Producer – D. W. Norton, Martin Shepherd (tracks 2–3), Simon (tracks 2–3) at the Disco Playpen
  • Mixing engineer – Martin Shepherd (track 4)
  • Audio engineer – Chock (tracks 2–3) at the Gypsy Bar
  • Tracks 5 and 6 re-mastered from Jar of Kingdom
Artwork details
  • Roy Torkington – artwork, layout, design
  • Simon – layout, design

References

  1. ^ Alchemist Discography Eve of the War, Alchemist official site Archived 2007-06-17 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 6 June 2007
  2. ^ Broadband made for working from home. Retrieved 21 April 2024 – via www.youtube.com.
  3. ^ "'Yoni Kunda' at APRA search engine". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 30 April 2018. Note: For additional work user may have to select 'Search again' and then 'Enter a title:' &/or 'Performer:'