[spectre] New Podcast: MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH.... Eric Isaacson Part II.

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MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH.... Eric Isaacson Part II

Eric Isaacson, founder of Mississippi Records, presents a compilation that
seeks to capture the magic of home recordings.

Link:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia-eric-isaacson-collection/capsula
PDF:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20140508/Memorabilia_eric_isaacson_partII_eng.pdf

“This mix is all over the board. The theme is simply home recorded music,
whether by the artist themselves or by field recordists who came over to
visit. Some of the artists are very well known like Bo Diddley, who would
work out his compositions at home on tape before hitting Chess studios to
record, or Charlie Feathers who recorded at home all through his 40 year
career using the same equipment... As a result you can’t tell the
difference between a recording made in 1955 or 1985 when it comes to
Charlie. Some of these artists are not very well known – like Scott Dunbar
who never left the small town of Lake Mary, Louisiana. Some of the artists
are stalwarts of the Mississippi label like Michael Hurley, Marisa Anderson
and Abner Jay.



The point of this mix is to show that the bloated magic sounds of the
studio can take you pretty far in one direction... ain’t nothing wrong with
that studio sound when its used right - like on Phil Spector’s genuinely
psychotic wall of sound or George Martin’s bizarrely perfect rock on the
Beatles Revolver album or stuff like that. I will grant that a fancy pants
studio can achieve some magnificent things that a home studio never could.
Conversely, home recording can achieve some amazing things that a studio
never could no matter how hard it tried. Some things just can't be
manufactured outside the home... “

Eric Isaacson
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