Magic Window - WAAPA Sessions

Here is a special treat for everyone, an unreleased recording going all the way back to 2008. This is the only studio recording of the long forgotten but classic Perth band Magic Window, which starred Amber Gempton on bass/vocals, Tim Loughman on guitar/drums and James on drums/keys/vocals, It's Tim playing drums when James is playing keys and James at the kit when Tim's playing guitar. Like most good Perth bands they realised very little of their potential in their brief time together (about a dozen gigs or so and 2 recordings*). This band started just after I met the three members, most of my friends and my girlfriend so I guess they hold some sort of nostalgia for me or something like it. As far as I'm aware these recordings were going to be released as an LP on Meupe but the WAAPA student James had lined up to do the recordings did a really shitty job, they got someone else to come in and mix them again but they did a pretty poor job too and then James moved away, the band was no more and the album was forgotten. It's a great shame no one involved thought to keep the master files as this could be a great album if it had a decent mix. Bummer.

Magic Window - WAAPA Sessions 2008

Since Magic Window broke up, Tim and Amber have continued playing in a number of other great bands including Astral Travel, Golden Staph and Bermuda and James has continued acting.

*The other recording of Magic Window was a mono live recording of the band at 208, released by my arch-nemesis Camryn Rothenbury on his then label Farmer Frontier, it was a split live cd-r with the even shorter lived Penetrating Stairs (Alex Glazov, Clare Wohlnick and Rohan Extortion). I will probably put that one up too someday.