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| Jar-e Battles Giant Insects To Record Intimate "Chicas Malas" Jar-e's Jon Reid and producer Keith "Touch" Saunders spent the end of last summer cooped up in a barn in the remote Appalachian mountains - Silvermine Studios - recording the group's third album, 'Chicas Malas' (out now on Exotic Recordings). Reid and Saunders were able to control every aspect of their recording time at Silvermine - from building a control room to setting up room mics with engineer Matt Lane - and have captured this process in a short documentary "The Making of Jar-e's 'Chicas Malas.'" One of the songs heard on the documentary, "3 Leaf, " is a blues-styled rock song that showcases Reid's soulful voice against colorful horn melodies, bright Fender Rhodes and syncopated rhythms. Off camera, the recording process included frustrating hardware malfunctions, sweltering heat, and horror-movie-sized outdoor pests, which Saunders described as "moths the size of bats, wolf spiders the size of our hands, and beetles you would swear had a 'VW' emblem on their back crawled out from the walls." Nonetheless, the four-piece band miraculously finished recording 10 tracks in just two-and-a-half days. Saunders explains: "Somehow, the band kept their spirits high and sweated through the takes; as if the heat only made them happier." write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Jazz News :: home page |