DETAILS
TRACKS
- Sundown, Sundown
- The Grand Duel / Once Upon A Time In The West
- I Let Love In
- May Be One, May Be Nine
- Mona Lisa
RELEASE DATE
02/04/2022
What do you do when you’re a seven person band who hasn’t been able to play together for more than a year? What if you have a penchant for large ensemble arrangements? How do you attempt to pull off a recording when, as a group, you haven't been able to strum an acoustic guitar within the same four walls for a year? When the world has lit on fire and charred you along the way? The answer, for us, was to start from a common, known starting point. To take the songwriting out of the equation. In short. We made a covers EP.
For “Our Side Of Their Story” we enlisted engineering skillsmith, Elliott Smith collaborator, and TapeOp creationer Larry Crane. Larry is a recording legend here in Portland (if you don’t know his catalog look it up) and this was a chance for us to work with someone new that we greatly admired. Plus we wouldn’t have to touch a fader.
We recorded basic tracks for this EP in two days. But not just ANY two days. The two hottest days in recorded history in Portland, OR. A bizarre and terrifying heat dome descended upon us sustaining Mephistophelian temperatures like 116° for these sessions. Reminding us that we hadn’t yet made it out of the proverbial frying pan. As if we needed any reminding.
Cast iron frying pan aside.. We wound up working with one of the greatest harmonica blowers in the world (seriously, look up his credits) Mickey Raphael. You can hear real strings all over this record thanks to string wizardry of Andrew Joslyn. Hell, we also worked with a fella (jazz bassist Todd Sickafoose) who has 1⁄2 of an EGOT.
EXPLORE

Max Knouse
Chimpmunk'd Away (Pre-order)

Federale
Reverb & Seduction

The Third Sex
The Third Sex - Back To Go

Califone
The Villagers Companion

The Delines
Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom

Martha Scanlan & Jon Neufeld
Save It For Later

The Hoom
On Gabadon

Boxhead Ensemble
Ancient Music

Blue Cranes
My Only Secret

Califone
Califone CD Reissues

Johanna Samuels
Bystander

Califone
villagers

Jenny Conlee
Tides: Pieces For Accordion And Piano

The Hackles
What a beautiful thing I have made

The Hackles
Song For The Fool

Martha Scanlan & Jon Neufeld
Last Stars First Light

No. 2
First Love

José Medeles
Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems

The Delines
The Sea Drift

Motrik
MØØN: The Cosmic Electrics of MØTRIK

Dave Depper
Europa

Motrik
Artificial Head

Eyelids
The Accidental Falls

Califone
Echo Mine

The Hackles
A Dobritch Did As A Dobritch Should

Federale
No Justice

Eamon Fogarty
Blue Values

Team Dresch
Choices, Chances, Changes: Singles & Comptracks 1994-2000

Team Dresch
Captain My Captain

Team Dresch
Personal Best

Martha Scanlan
The West Was Burning

Martha Scanlan
Tongue River Stories: Autumn

The Hackles
The Twilight's Calling It Quits

1939 Ensemble
New Cinema

Eyelids
Maybe More

Corrina Repp
How A Fantasy Will Kill Us All

Tim Rutili & Craig Ross
10 Seconds To Collapse

Motrik
Safety Copy

Eyelids
or

Sin Ropas
Mirror Bride

Annalisa Tornfelt
Search Zero

Luke Ydstie
Collected Essential Works

Jenny Conlee with Steve Drizos
French Kayaking Music

Kind of Like Spitting
You Secretly Want Me Dead

The Valiant Arms
Swallow The Sea: The Songs of The Crabs

Annalisa Tornfelt
The Number 8

Hook & Anchor
Hook & Anchor

Eyelids
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