Well…..
We have made it through the first stage of recording. All of us are back in New York after three weeks in LA. We will return to the studio next Tuesday and Wednesday, mostly to record horns and strings. Then we will have a couple of days off till we start [...]
Here’s something special for you – baeblemusic.com shot the lad’s ENTIRE performance at the Bowery Ballroom during the CMJ marathon. You can watch a sample here but be sure to go to their site and check out the whole show and some of the other great performances that are available, including British Sea Power from [...]
Pela’s CMJ performance has been posted on KEXP ’s website.
You can download it here.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YyTokjOqvg
Here’s something interesting we found for you last night. A bit of flavor of the life in East LA.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjj8_eiLres
For all of our Balkan loving fans, and anyone else who speaks Croatian, this video is for you.
Tomislav in Croatian, responding to how life in the Studio is, with Pela.
-early a.m. B. Entry-
I’m looking at Eric sleeping.He looks funny without his glasses.I woke up at 5am this morning.Today is my first official day off in 17 days.Sometimes when i drink too much, it makes me wake up in the middle of the night.We sure tied one on last night.Dan kicked me out of the [...]
Our sixteenth day is coming to an end…
Billy spent much of the day recording guitar, and in the later part of the day we recorded the piano to “East Los Angeles”. It’s quite appropriate to be here in LA, East LA, recording a song with the same title. We didn’t plan it that way but [...]
We have been recording for well over 150 hours. Our spirits have been to extremes highs and visited lows only found in true exhaustion. We have traversed through fifteen songs in the studio, two of which were written since we have been here. Here are some videos we collected during that time….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jR_R-tkFDg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GW15AXScok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXXnZo_A3uo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZgTmEer4pY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auA2PO1JLiA
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Konichiwa,
We are knee deep into another 12 hour day. Last night the band surprised the hell out of itself again. Flirting with a ballad worthy of Yanni. Maybe it was subconscious, but Tom came to the studio with a surprise. Above his lip sat a beautiful little caterpillar moustache. We had all begged him, and [...]