Hey, it’s June already! Get off your duff and order my double vinyl LIVE album, Paradiso in the Moonlight. Recorded in Amsterdam on the “Danzig in the Moonlight” tour, the album documents one of two occasions where I could assemble the players from my album. JB Meijers, currently riding the top of the charts w Dutch Eurovision entrants the Common Linnets, plays bass and guitar. Pim Kops (keyboards/accordion), Roland Brunt (Sax) and Peter van Soest (horn) all play, like JB, with Dutch legends De Dijk. The Westside Trio, from the un-peer-able Metropole Orchestra provide strings. Joost Kroon, who plays with jazz big band New Cool Collective, as well as on many of the albums I’ve worked on is on drums/samples. Margaret Cho makes a guest appearance; Eva Auad sings and plays keys and my daughter (see below) sings too. The whole album was mixed by TheLAB, who mixed Danzig and made this moonlight shine brilliantly. Your vinyls come with a hi res audio and video download. The cover is by Moker Ontwerp who did the cover illustrations for Danzig, too.
GET THE DAMN THING, WE ONLY MADE 300 of ‘em! http://www.lojinx.com/releases/ken-stringfellow/paradiso-in-the-moonlight
This week I was in Paris, working from my studio. We spent two days doing overdubs on the Humbolt EP, having a great time–at one point, there were something like 8 people in my studio, a record (while a record was being made). By Tuesday, I was mixing, and continued to do so for most of the week. Yesterday, we recommenced work on Mimi Schell‘s album. We’re at the hard part now–we have done the best of her existing material, and I’ve been encouraging her to write, write, write. Some songs are more or less complete; some are fragmentary. Yesterday we decided to dive in and bring one of the fragments to life, and we made an exuberant, under 3-minute song, that is somewhere between acoustic pop and electronic, almost Scandinavian, beat-oriented music.
Wednesday, however, I took the day off. Aden, apple of my eye, turned ten. She was served breakfast in bed, had a giant macaron sandwich cake with raspberries and whipped cream. We played, we shopped, we had a great day as a family.
Most days I was back home around ten p.m., to spend a little quiet time with the girls before getting to bed between 11 and midnite. Most of the week was a school holiday, Ascension. We’d sleep with the curtains up, and the blazing sun would wake us before 8. We’d get up, slowly, and find our way to coffee downstairs, then I’d head off to the studio.
It seems ideal.
Love
KS
Paris
