Runner's High is an album of optomistic, psychedelic, free spirited, American Kosmiche music. It comes with the more ambient Warm Up & Cool Down CD which can be used for pre and post run sessions or as a guided musical meditation. Pneumatic Tubes is the solo project of Jesse Chandler, keyboard and woodwinds player for Midlake and Mercury Rev.

Chandler is a talented multi-instumentalist and a grammy winning composer. On Runner's High he sings, plays flutes, calrinet, synths, keyboards, guitar & percussion. Joining him on his run are:

Paul Alexander (formerly of Midlake): Runner's High album mixer & bass on KM1/Daybreak, Yellow Green and Gold, Motion Kontrol, Jogger John
Meg Baird (formerly of Espers): vocals on Yellow Green and Gold
Jim Jupp (Belbury Poly): Warm Up & Cool Down album mixer & synth on Shavasana
Martin Keith: pedal steel guitar on Jogger John
João Branco Kyron (Beautify Junkyards): co-writer, vocals and synth on Motion Kontrol
Ben Sloan: drums & percussion on Yellow Green and Gold, Motion Kontrol, Lisbon Blues, Jogger John
Tim Smith (Harp, formerly of Midlake): co-writer, vocals, acoustic guitar & synth on Yellow Green and Gold

“I go out running almost every day, my favourite runs are always when I’m on a tour and can go out and explore whichever place I’m in.” says Chandler, describing the way he keeps body and soul together under the demands of life on the road.

The idea for the record came about on one of these “run-seeing” excursions and was inspired by his late father’s running journals. He was a part of the running boom that was an off-shoot of the nascent health and well-being movement of the 1970s.

Chandler explains the very real runner’s high phenomenon, “It usually kicks in around 4 to 5 miles into a run and at that point it feels like whatever you’re doing is effortless, like you’ve achieved some sort of exhilarating meditative state where nothing hurts or aches, your body is moving like a machine and you almost feel like you could go on forever. It doesn’t always happen, but when it does it’s a very special feeling.”

The golden yellow LP version comes in a gatefold sleeve that includes the companion ambient album Warm Up & Cool Down on CD, it also includes a free download code card. The CD version comes as a double CD Digipack. Artwork is by Jim Jupp and liner notes by Justin Hopper (spoken word performer and author of Old Weird Albion).