HOUSES

Here’s a little background info on All Night. This is what we send out for press releases as far as a bio goes, but it’s not really a bio as it says nothing about where we grew up or any of that other stuff nobody cares about. It’s really a short story about how All Night came to be and also how it will come to you. I realized that it gets sent out to writers who put it into their own words, so many of you don’t have the full story. Well at least you don’t know the end of the story which I think is the coolest part. So here it is:

“I got laid off from my job at the end of last year and decided I needed a change. My girlfriend put in her two weeks and we moved out to a little cabin in Papaikou, Hawaii. It’s a pretty remote place outside of Hilo (i.e no plumbing/electricity/gas). We worked for meals during the day cultivating indigenous microorganisms and learning the basics of sustainable living. We drank showered and cooked with rain water. It was a beautifully simple experience. In our downtime, she would paint and I would record. We’d have to light candles in an effort to save solar power to keep my computer running. We inspired each other a lot out there, and I think it shows on the album. She sings on a lot of the tracks on All Night. The music comes from a place of love and ease. The video for Endless Spring was shot there in our spare time, and the music was sketched out loosely over the course of a few months.  We just kind of melted into one person. We were able to keep our heads above water for a few months before we both went broke and moved back to Chicago. I put together all the arrangements and field recordings, and that became All Night. I really wanted it to be something special. The album was finished in a very untraditional way that I believe compliments the unique way it was conceived. It was mixed at Sound Mind studios in Chicago by Dash Tortoriello, and then sent to Capsule Labs in Los Angeles for mastering. All night was pressed to vinyl on a vintage Neumann cutting lathe and then sent through a series of old analog mastering equipment. It was then routed back into the computer giving us a digital version of a vinyl pressing. You can hear all the beautiful warmth and crackle just like you would if you listened to it on vinyl. The idea is that everyone can hear the very first pressing of All Night. It’s a sonically intimate record and we wanted to capture that feeling in the production as well.”

The mixing and mastering of the album was an incredibly tedious and amazing process, and I thought it would be a nice thing to share with everyone before the album comes out. There are crackles, there are imperfections and little warbles just like there would be if you were listening to vinyl (Unless of course you bought the vinyl, in which case those are included naturally). Everyone who worked on the album did an incredible job with the less than perfect bedroom recordings I gave them and the result is really fantastic.  Like I stated above, we wanted to have everyone hear the very first pressing of All Night to vinyl, so we did exactly that. All digital downloads and cd’s will sound just as good as the record (as long as you aren’t listening to it on your built in computer speakers of course). 

Here is contact information for the people who mixed/mastered this album. They are amazing at what they do and affordable as well. If you have a band/know a band who needs post production help, these are the people to call. 

Dashiell Tortoriello (my brother)

Producer/Engineer/Owner

Sound Mind Studios Chicago

dashtortoriello@gmail.com

(630)-926-2473

Gil Tamazyan 

Mastering Engineer

Capsule Labs Los Angeles

info@capsulelabs.com

(323) 362 6049 

www.capsulelabs.com

Jesse Christenson (did preliminary mixes and is great at what he does)

Producer/Engineer/Recording On A Low Budget Genius

Midcoast Audio Creation

jessechristenson@me.com

http://midcoastaudio.com/

Thanks to everyone who read all of this. It was long winded, but I really wanted to share it.