Current mood: FISHY FISHY.....
Category: FISHY FISHY..... Music
A few days ago I got a myspazzing comment from a record label called Frizz Records it read thus:
Hello Paul
Thanks for the add and the ugly picture of a dog with a man's head
If you are on Fish Island, as in Fish Island E3, then we are neighbours
Enjoy the music!
Raphael
Well, even though I'd rather it wasn't the case, other people do live here on Fish Island.
I was therefore thinking that perhaps Raphael was living in one of these here Yuppie flats...
But no, it turns out that the Raphael lives a mile or so away in Mile End and the studio (where the vast majority of the Frizz output is recorded) is here on The Island
Yes boss, the Gizzard Recording Studio is less than 100 meters (as the vodka bottle flies) away from this fishy fort...
Basically, you come over the moat..
past where some drunken fool has graffitied this (also on the left)...
And there on your immediate right, sat next to the Ghanaian Church (outside which a young man was shot last year) sits the studio....
Well, I've walked this very route almost everyday for the past 3 years and never have I heard or seen a murmur to suggest music was being made there...
No boss, it never ceases to amaze me how one can completely miss things...
Anyway, today, I made up for lost time and popped on over to get a more thorough grasp of both the studio and Frizz Records, and here follows what came next...
The first thing worth mentioning is that this isn't just any studio it's an almost completely analog one that uses tape - 16 track analog tape as opposed to computers...
Yes boss, there's no 64 track Pro Tools digital mixing going on in this control room. There is a back up computer for use in emergencies, but the vast majority of the work is undertaken the old fashioned way...
This interest in this back to basics approach is reflected in the ethos and recordings on Frizz...
Yes boss, what initially attracted me to this label was the manifesto attached and the fresh sound of the recordings...
We believe in combining the best of new and old techniques for making music. We think there's something special about vinyl and recording onto tape. At the same time we like to make friends with new technology, and we use it when it helps...
FRIZZ is the best of both worlds...buy the vinyl to listen at home, or play out, and get the mp3s free...
FRIZZ doesn't have a music policy based on genre or style. We subscribe to the Duke Ellington Theory of music categorisation...
So, having introduced myself, I performed the usual Giovan-drill:
Yes boss, I lurked about quietly in the control room, asked the odd question, took the odd photo, and took it all in...
The result of this days work is that I've decided to follow Frizz Records on their inevitable rise upwards...
Starting with a full introduction, that I'll get on with in a minute...
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