UNCONDITIONAL LOVE - THE WESTERFELD SESSIONS - CD PACKAGE [FOLD OUT]

The new MUTAYTOR CD is out!

 

Recorded over four inspired days at the historic Westerfeld Mansion in San Francisco last April has yielded and true piece of musical beauty.

 

I am really really proud of this CD. Though I had nothing to do with the music, I was honored to be the guy with magic image box to capture the story.

 

From the CD:

 

"IN THE SPRING OF 2010, we packed up our gear, our studios, a fairly impressive collection of microphones, and

miles of cable and brought up to San Fransisco and proceeded to turn our friend Jimmy Seigel’s famed

Westerfeld Mansion into a giant recording studio. What happened surprised even us.

Music likes being in some places ...better than others. Most commercial recording studios are deliberately designed to be very acoustically sterile environments, where little is left to chance and each sound can be kept on a fairly tight leash. The Westerfeld was anything but that. Almost immediately we realized we weren’t so much in a building anymore, but a living, breathing organism that seemed to listen to every sound we made and repeated it back to us instantly in a very rich and harmonically pleasing way. For four whirlwind days and nights, the house cooed and hummed in way that could be compared to a puppy having it’s belly rubbed.

 

While we tracked, all around us, creativity was bursting like a hundred flowers - photos were piling up all over the place, film was running constantly, we were visited by a group of folks in wedding dresses, we enacted strange musical rituals in the bell tower, and on the whole, we all went mad with inspired joy.

 

What you hold in your hand now are some of the fruits of that endeavor. All of the reverberations and reflections you hear on this recording were naturally created by the house itself, rather than through any modern technology and in many ways, the Westerfeld itself became an instrument we collectively played.

 

Most of these songs have appeared in some form or another on previous recordings, however the arrangements and performances are all new and represent where we were as a band at that moment in time after a prolonged stint of touring. It is our sincere hope that you enjoy this album even a fraction of the amount we did making it. and if we’ve failed to mention it before - THANK YOU FOR LISTENING."

- THE MUTAYTOR

LOS ANGELES, 2010

 

ph:kevin rolly

layout and design:buck ae down

 

Done