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See John Hum's brand of piano driven progressive rock has been carefully crafted into the debut album 'A Single Day' released September 2012. The creative outlet of Newcastle based multi-instrumentalist Dean Carruthers, See John Hum's debut is an ambitious concept album which explores the emotional landscape of a person in the final day of their life. Composed, performed and produced by Carruthers over 5 years and across 3 cities most of the record was written on a single piano, however the final incarnations of these songs travel much more diverse soundscapes. The record opens with a darkly delicate piano motif and ends in a distorted wash of delayed piano's and mellotron. Between lies a diverse mix of genre blurring sounds; heavy, time signature crunching progressive rock, dark and deeply melodic piano hooks, soaring multi-tracked choirs and dense rhythmic washes of otherwordly piano's, strings, keyboards and guitars. Lyrically the album explores the despair and exhaltation of