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22 August 2007
It's so easy to let these updates slip by. Lots has happened since the last one, including two very successful Dismemberment Plan reunion shows to benefit the health care of J Robbins' son Callum, and plenty of studio action. To go into a little detail....
Just finished the Statehood record here in D.C. We started tracking the record at the end of last year in Joe's and my basements and finished up tracking at Inner Ear in June. Mixing was started at Inner Ear and finished at my place, where I've been doing increasingly more work (at this rate I should probably start thinking about a name for my room here in Petworth), saving clients a good bit of dosh. Demos of songs from the record are available on Statehood's myspace page, along with info about some upcoming shows.
Planning is now seriously under way for an upcoming record with D.C. folk chanteuse Rose. Things are looking good for a return to with Joel Hamilton and his new Neve console, which I'm excited to hear. I'm also really stoked at the prospect of having Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu, They Might Be Giants, Book of Knots) and Steve Goulding (Mekons and Elvis Costello) involved. More details to come.
The Travis Morrison Hellfighters record All Y'All came out yesterday, and can be streamed at the Barsuk Records website. Finally! The whole process behind this record (preproduction here in DC, tracking with Greg Norman at Electrical Audio, mixing with Joel at Studio G) was so much fun, it's been great to revisit some of those experiences with all the hubub surrounding the release. Travis and the Hellfighters will be playing a show September 1 at IOTA in Arlington, VA.
Speaking of record releases, Pash's new record will be out on Exotic Fever on August 28. Like the Statehood record, we put this one together with a mixture of tracking and mixing spaces: Inner Ear, Pash's practice space, and Silver Sonya all played a part in the process. Working with a team of folks certainly has its advantages, but doing the preproduction, engineering, mixing and producing solo, as I did on this project, can be just as much of an education. We had a fantastic time working on this record. Pash will be kicking off their fall tour at the Black Cat here in DC on August 31.
Work on a project with David Brown, Hellfighters' percussionist and guitarist extraordinaire, is continuing. I'm running the production side with David, and playing guitar. If you put Elvis Costello, ELO, and Jill Scott in a blender...you'd be in the same zipcode as this band. Maybe. I feel like the adjectives 'funky' and 'psychedelic' are culturally illegal, yet they're apt for this music, in the best of ways.
Other projects include mixing a record for Geneva Illinois' Kid You'll Move Mountains, and ongoing producing and mixing work with one of the best songwriters I've heard in a long while, Tom Fineran. Tom and I hope to be up at J Robbins' Magpie Cage in beautiful Baltimore in a few weeks.
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