I recently produced an EP that didn’t quite get a chance to find its audience. This was one of those great projects where a cool band from England comes out to live in your house in Connecticut during the hottest five weeks of the summer and you borrow a vintage Fairchild and a U47 and a bunch of other mics and amps and you set up in your living room and you record five songs and you get the guy who mixed Stadium Arcadium on board and then you finish it right as the band goes home and breaks up. Shit.
Well, the EP has just been released on Bandcamp, so you can finally check out the finished product.
Also, see documentation of the project as it happened.
Zut Alors - Torr EP sessions, New Haven.
Mr. Aaron Kelly in the inverted library.
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Recording guitars (for Zut Alors EP) in Nathan Johnson’s library / studio / dining room, in New Haven, CT.
Zut Alors - Torr EP sessions, New Haven.
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Nathan giving us a sneak peak of his score to Brothers Bloom.
![Zut Alors - Torr EP sessions, New Haven.
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Dave playing a metal sheet as a snare. [Note : Nathan’s Fray artwork on wall.]](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/nathanjohnson/426459624/1/tumblr_kyiz2qkRCm1qzr8xx "http://nathanjohnson.tumblr.com/post/426459624/zut-alors-torr-ep-sessions-new-haven")
Zut Alors - Torr EP sessions, New Haven.
I love this piano… There’s just something amazing about old uprights that I can’t quite put my finger on. The creaks, the brightness, the BASS on this sucker too - amazing! This is the same piano we loaded up into a U-haul and carted over to Firehouse 12 for the Brothers Bloom recording sessions.
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Nathan’s old Baldwin.
Zut Alors - Torr EP sessions, New Haven.
My friend Aaron from Zut Alors just posted a bunch of photos from the summer of ‘08. The originally were going to bring me out to the UK to produce their Torr EP, but we figured, why not have the come stay at my house and do the whole thing in the US.
You can hear the songs we finished here. I’ll reblog a few more of the photos.
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After five weeks with Nathan, we bid our farewell and headed home via NYC. I picked up a copy of Johnny Cash’s At San Quentin on 12” for Nathan, a small token of our huge appreciation.
Music Monday! - Ricochet by Zut Alors
Last summer, the boys from Zut Alors came to live at my house in Connecticut for a month and I produced this unreleased EP. Then they got home to England and broke up. Which really sucks, cause it was a pretty cool project.
Alas, at least we have the recordings
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