MFT#008: Cowboy Angels

[Frank Reber]

Listen to MFT#008 w/ Cowboy Angels while you read!!!

The studio has been incredibly busy this past week and I feel like I've been running around like a chicken with no head. Despite being slammed with sessions, I still managed to find time to record another session for all of you fine people to enjoy. This week I invited Dan Schepper to come in and perform a few Cowboy Angels tunes. I've known Dan for a number of years now and I consider him to be a pretty swell guy. Dan is probably known to most people as the drummer for
Everything, NOW!, but over the past couple of years his solo project, Cowboy Angels, has been turning some heads. Unlike the psychedelic space folk music that he plays in E,N!, Cowboy Angels can be pretty diverse. At times it sounds like a crunchy old school rock and at others it borderlines some sort of back-country shoe-gaze. Regardless of the styles and genres being utilized, every element has some strange vintage feel to it. The timeless tones that remind me of countless old records.

Since Dan writes and plays EVERYTHING it was a bit of a challenge to record a multi-tracked session in such a way that it would sound like a live performance. To pull this off we opted for single takes. Essentially we froze a piece of time with our technology so that Dan could go back and rock out with his past selves. Is your mind blown yet? I bet you never thought of a recording engineer as manipulator of time! No big whoop.

Back to Dan... He recorded 5 songs. 3 of these 5 are NEW. I could tell you which songs are new but that would take all of the fun out of the hunt. Do yourself a favor and head
CLICK HEREto listen to MFT#008 featuring a multi-tracked performance by Dan Schepper. Try not to tap your foot. I dare you.

Now if you're longing for something to look at while your ears are being stimulated, take a gander at some of these amazing photographs taken by
Lauren Bultman Photography. She always does an amazing job and I'm not just saying that because she's my fiance.

To view the photo gallery please CLICK HERE to be redirected to ReberRecording.com!

Last but not least... You can find Cowboy Angels on the internet in the following places.
1.
http://cowboyangels.bandcamp.com/
2.
http://www.facebook.com/cowboyangels
3.
http://www.myspace.com/wearecowboyangels

[Frank Reber]

Does that make us (recording engineers) time lords?

[Aaron Poehler]

A recording engineer's primary job is to manipulate time!