Maury Lafoy
plays upright bass on all the tracks except Open and Closed. This popular fellow writes and performs in The Supers, a power pop band whose first release, SPKLANGGG!, featured super hero comic illustrations by Swinghammer. Maury is also a member of Starling and has worked with Kurt on numerous projects including Vostok 6, and CD's by Dan Bryk and Tory Cassis.

Mark Mariash
contributes percussion to many of the tracks. He has performed and recorded often with Kurt in bands backing Tory Cassis and Sarah Slean, whose second CD he co-produced. Mark also played drums on Kurt's soundtrack to the doc Wrinkle by director Michael MacNamara.

Mike
Oleson
laid down cello on the tunes, and is known for playing with the Rheostatics at live gigs, and on their epic children's record Harmolodia, which Kurt guests on as well. Mike is part of an interesting collective known as Kitchen Music, and Kurt has improvised with them on stage a couple of times.

Sara
McElcherin
is well known to Toronto audiences for her trumpet playing with Hawksley Workman and James Bee, but on black eyed sue she had the rare opportunity to whip out the recorder. She has previously worked with Kurt on Vostok 6, the live V6 band, and on the Wrinkle soundtrack.

Pat
O'Gorman
added the haunting uilleann pipes to Sea Of Yesterdays. A former member of the dual bagpipe driven Rare Air, Pat is a regular performer in the local Celtic scene. Kurt and Pat previously performed together with Andy Stochansky and George Koller when they improvised a soundtrack to the original Nosferatu silent film, live at the Rivoli.

Dave
Matheson
is best known as a member of Moxy Fruvous, and has released his first solo CD which features Maury Lafoy and Mark Mariash on many tracks, and is available through Maplemusic.com. David played accordion on Bathurst Flat.

Rob
Piilonon
plays in a number of jazz and improv configurations including Kitchen Music with Mike Oleson. He added flute on Marilyn Churley, and A Modern Plan, a track that was written and recorded for black eyed sue, but left off the final sequence. It will be available as an MP3 soon.

Graham
Powell
co-leads The Supers with Maury Lafoy, and added the distinctive background vocals to Out Of Thin Air. He also took the digital photos for the cover.

Oliver
Schroer
has released a number of solo and ensemble CD's that feature his violin skills. His double CD called O2 is an excellent example of his minimalist solo work. He played fiddle on Lunar Lines and Memories Employ.

Mia
Sheard
has released a couple of critically acclaimed Cd's of original material, and Kurt played in her band for about a year. A live recording of that line-up appears on the compilation CD Local Flavours, which documented performances at C'est What - the club where Swinghammer celebrated the release of black eyed sue. Mia sings lead vocals on Open and Close, and also contributed to the Vostok recording and live band.

Dan
Bryk is a singer/songwriter who has released a couple of fascinating CD's, both of which Kurt played on. Kurt and Maury have played with Dan numerous times live. Dan is also a busy designer and for black eyed sue did the type and digital layout of the cover.

Kurt's home studio where he recorded all of the vocals and instruments. This is the first project he has produced on a MacIntosh G4 and digi 001 (protools).

A studio owned and operated by Jamie Stanley and Joao Carvello, and a favorite choice for many independent artists. Greg O'Shea is the house engineer and mixed the tracks by first transferring them out of protools through vintage Neve strips, tube compressors, and back through the Yamaha board in Umbrella's analog room. After balancing the tracks in protools, the final mixes were transferred onto 1/4" tape to add another layer of anaolg warmth. Joao transferred the tapes back onto Protools to do final mastering and sequencing.