(“God Is Winded” from Frozen Bears’ disc “Hey! That’s A Good Lookin’ Sportcoat”. Directed by Adam Waller.)
Message to anyone that has a working Tascam Portastudio: Guard it with your life or sell it for what it’s worth. Right now, your 4-track cassette Portastudio will have vultures(myself included) circling around until you sell it. For voice interviews, I recently switched back to recording with audio tape cassettes. Ask Bob Pollard or anyone with Guided By Voices if in retrospect, if they would’ve rather recorded “Bee Thousand” in digital. Don’t dare ask Frozen Bears such a ridiculous question either. The same ingenuity could not be realized. Aural morphing via an analog palette versus tinkering with zeros and ones are spoken English and Russian, respectively.
Frozen Bears 2000 and Hey! That’s A Good Lookin’ Sportcoat are not for the masses, they are indeed for the passionate ones. Baton Rouge LA based music journalist Alex V. Cook named FB 2000 the most intriguing area album for 2009 in a writeup in 225 Magazine. The fandom of passionate ones is becoming geographically widespread, based on WFMU airplay and respect from Chuck Eddy, specialist of music critique of the acrobatic via books such as Stairway To Hell and periodicals(tangible and online) The Village Voice and Rhapsody.
The craft in recording these albums aside from merely putting them on audio tape cassette must be rather inventive in order to get the varied results of tape saturation heard on these efforts. I didn’t ask specifics on this, nor should I. The mysteries involving this shall remain veiled. Kevin Hurstell does explain many things involving the creative process during this two-part LIR Podcast interview.
frozenbears.org
Frozen Bears on myspace
LIR Podcast: Frozen Bears(part one of two)
LIR Podcast: Frozen Bears(part two of two)
From the forthcoming disc This Will Be One For The Books, the emphasis track “Across The Sun” by We Landed On The Moon.
These Little Wars was a solid effort for Baton Rouge based indie band We Landed On The Moon! Daytime airplay was accomplished on one of the best college stations in the country in New Orleans’ WTUL. There were also performances at SXSW and CMJ Fest. I sat down with WLOTM’s John Lambremont and Melissa Eccles about their exciting forthcoming disc and their tour of the east coast and midwest…in a bowling alley where drummer Josh Nee happened to be bartending that evening. It would’ve been cool to have been keeping track of the actual bowling score in the lane closest to us to see if the interview done here would’ve somehow equated to it.
http://www.welandedonthemoon.com
We Landed on the Moon! on Myspace
LIR Podcast: We Landed on the Moon!(part one of two)
LIR Podcast: We Landed on the Moon!(part two of two)
