D.C. techno/prog-rockers Trans Am will return February 20 with their eighth full-length, titled Sex Change and due out on Thrill Jockey. To record the album, the band left their usual instruments at home and headed for Auckland, New Zealand, where bassist/vocalist Nathan Means had been living since the release of 2004's Liberation. They borrowed instruments and headed t...(展开全部) D.C. techno/prog-rockers Trans Am will return February 20 with their eighth full-length, titled Sex Change and due out on Thrill Jockey. To record the album, the band left their usual instruments at home and headed for Auckland, New Zealand, where bassist/vocalist Nathan Means had been living since the release of 2004's Liberation. They borrowed instruments and headed to the Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand, aka MAINZ, an Auckland recording school where a professor and one of the school's students recorded the band. According to a press release, "the MAINZ session...was threatened when photos of the band drinking beer in the on-campus studio were discovered by the administration. Future drinking occurred off campus." Their approach to recording stayed irreverent (and awesome), however, as they then moved to Oneida's Brooklyn studio and employed "a codified series of recording techniques called 'Obscene Strategies'." Taking their cues from Brian Eno's "Oblique Strategies", a deck of cards with appropriately oblique "solutions" to recording problems printed on them, the "Obscene Strategies" were used to "loosen creative blockages" and included the following suggestions: #11 Take a nap #16 Make it sound like Jackson Browne #18 Rip off black musicians #19 Invite all your friends over #20 Check your email #23 Leave the studio unlocked overnight #31 Hose down the control room #43 Pillow fight! Sex Change was then mixed at John Vanderslice's Tiny Telephone Studios in San Francisco. All in all, the album was "conceived, written, recorded, and mixed in only three weeks." Trans Am will begin touring in earnest in April, but they have two shows in New York City and one in San Francisco before then.
0 有用 metallic饅頭 2007-02-08 20:34:05
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0 有用 Leito 2023-06-30 15:41:49 北京
贝斯不错 01 First Words,07 4,738 Regrets,10 Shining Path
0 有用 光年‖影视歌三栖民工 2011-05-17 09:07:52
只喜欢4,738 Regrets
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0 有用 悟怡 2008-04-05 23:57:00
我听的版本怎么是13首的。。第七首重拍之后的版本很对情绪,没这么闹
0 有用 光年‖影视歌三栖民工 2011-05-17 09:07:52
只喜欢4,738 Regrets
0 有用 Leito 2023-06-30 15:41:49 北京
贝斯不错 01 First Words,07 4,738 Regrets,10 Shining Path
0 有用 metallic饅頭 2007-02-08 20:34:05
無聊,無聊,無聊……
0 有用 lula 2007-04-09 15:58:03
特别感动
0 有用 悟怡 2008-04-05 23:57:00
我听的版本怎么是13首的。。第七首重拍之后的版本很对情绪,没这么闹