In the Summer of 2007, I invited saxophonist/composer/girlfriend Andrea Steves to do something dangerous with me. Bravely, she accepted. So we packed our car full of instruments and drove to an old one-room schoolhouse nestled in a remote corner of South Dakota’s Black Hills to spend a week recording music. We had never even talked about making music together before. The noises we couldn’t make with what we brought were provided to us – by the curiosities buried in local secondhand shops and the howls echoing across the valley at night. And thus began a tradition, of thrusting two people together into a confined space in a remote location for one week and forcing them to record an album together using what little instruments they can bring from home or improvise from their surroundings. An intensive, immersive, experimental music retreat.
Below are some pictures and some mp3s of tracks from the first installment of the project. Click the mp3 link to listen or right-click/Ctrl-click and ‘Save As’ to download. More of both will be posted here, from this and future installments, as they become available.
it-gets-much-worse
fire
your-money-or-your-life
down-the-drain
