1. Revelations (3:54)   low | high 2. Winner Take All (4:34)   low | high 3. Once in a Lifetime (4:39)   low | high 4. In Your Arms (Tonight) (4:18)   low | high

In June of 2004, recording began for the "Revelations" album.  The material was written and the final pieces of Bulldog Studios had finally been put in place.  Rather than simply record in order, however, the decision was made to record four songs which could show the overall sound and vision of the album as well as stand on their own as plausible singles.  A lot of schedule shifting had to occur to bump up "Winner Take All" which appears much later on the album than it does here.

The music for each song was recorded in one full day.  There were few hitches in the process, except when listening back to one of the tracks it was discovered that one of the guitars was slightly out of tune, forcing a re-record of virtually all rhythm guitar parts and all the leads for "Winner Take All."  Three days were spent recording vocals (one day for backing vocals and then two lead parts a day).

Mixing and mastering proved to be a more time consuming process.  Three of the songs required editing in order to eliminate the transition from and/or to the previous and next songs ("Revelations" is an album in which all songs blend from one to another).  "In Your Arms (Tonight)" went under the knife the most, deleting almost three full minutes from the album version of the song.  All told it took 10 days to mix and master the demo to CD.

It definitely must be noted that this demo has no title.  It's not self titled, it's not called "untitled," it's called nothing.  Also, there exists a copy with a fifth song, "Don't Let Me Go" which is not from the "Revelations" album at and was recorded and mixed nearly a year later.  As far as I know (and as it should be), only two copies exist of this version.

The cover came from an image I found at Unicorn Lady and was chosen because of the way it ties into the cover for "Revelations."

Overall I was very pleased with the sound of the demo and was thrilled to hear these songs I had been working on for years not only finally come together, but come together with such a professional sound.

- Dan Heerdt

Technical Details:
Recorded June, 2004 at Bulldog Studios
Produced, Mixed, Engineered, and Mastered by Dan Heerdt
All songs written and arranged by Dan Heerdt
All songs © copyright 2004 Hurtman Music, all rights reserved.