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25: 347:, goat skin drums and washboards. Recorded on an arcane 8-track tape recorder, it presented a stripped down EIS, though still finds room for such instruments as stylophones, a mini-sampler, a 357:
Apart from some low-key appearances on beneath-the-radar compilations, EIS fell largely silent while Astor and Sheppard attended to their other projects. Astor released his
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On completing the record, Astor and Sheppard expanded the band into a 12-piece 'The Ellis Island Sound Orchestra' for their 2007 tour of UK festivals.
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solo album on Second Language in 2010 while Sheppard released an album, under the name Snow Palms, in conjunction with producer Chris Leary, in 2012.
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drum machine and miscellaneous noise making devices. Josh Hillman (of the Willard Grant Conspiracy) contributed violin, viola and pedal steel.
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EIS broke cover again in March 2014 with a 12" single, "Intro, Airborne, Travelling", on the Village Green label. A new album,
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border. The Good Seed features twenty rustic-yet-sophisticated new recordings concocted from
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The band formed in 1996, and their music varies from electronic-tinged soundscapes to neo-
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instruments that range from parlour guitars and ukuleles to pump harmoniums,
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As a duo, EIS recorded for labels including All City Chicago, Faux-Lux,
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in 2003). EIS regrouped to record a self-styled 'agrarian' album,
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This was followed by a limited edition, vinyl-only mini album (
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Astor and Sheppard have also recorded and toured together with
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label, it was recorded in a tiny, deconsecrated chapel in the
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