Description

This is a home recording taken from a selection of our material. We'll be heading into a studio to have some of the rough sounding fizz and fuzz taken out shortly. Please check back.

Biography

I met Giorgie at a Strokes show in Milan about three years ago. We had both been working on seperate projects and decided to merge the two affairs. She had been working with a nice sounding songwriter/producer. I'd been on my own. After pondering the idea of writing together, and because we were together we decided to put the old ambitions aside and start something ours. We wrote the songs like that. She'd be on the couch and I'd be on the guitar. I'd come home from work and she'd have a song cooking up inside. It worked well. We needed to record them because we couldn't find anyone who we liked enough to play with us. We bought all the basic eqipment to record these songs. The first time it was funny because we couldn't use real drums at home because they make too much noise. We took the basic rhythms from a metronome that was built into a pedal board I had. The first demo also didn't have a real bass guitar on it. The end result sounded strange. I wasn't happy and neither was Giorgie. A year later and after more craziness we decided that we could use August (Milan is empty in August) to record the songs using real instruments. We took on the task of setting up the microphones and recording the tracks one by one. It went by quickly. Fueled by Nescafe and Marlboro lights we churned out a song or two every day. It was fun. We bickered and argued and behaved as an old couple do. We made bets on vocal takes and took turns on who made the coffee. Recording finished at the end of August and then we went on to mixing the whole thing. I wish someone had been there to help us there, because it's there where not having decent programs and decent equpment really hurts. In retrospect I would have liked to have given the unedited tracks to a producer we know and had him do everything. We spent a long time on this process and we're still not at ease with its sound. (...continue..)