music : night time in the owsla

Metadata

• Artist: Sloum
• Album: Night Time in the Owsla
• Date: September 2010
• Format(s): Digital, CD
• Label(s): Camomille Music, Self Released

Track Listing

Personnel

• Brian Evans: Guitar, Field Recording, Piano, Keyboard, Art/Manufacture (self released version), Recording, Mixing, Mastering, Liner Notes
• Vincent Fugère: Art (for the Camomille Music version)

Notes & Thoughts

This album was originally released, in digital form, in 2010 on the now defunct Camomille Music imprint. Around 50 CD copies were made and self released by Sloum. They were housed in hand stamped cardstock sleeves.

This album was, to my recollection, made in the bedroom of my apartment recording to a Pro Tools Mbox 2 interface. Most of the sounds come from a Fernandez strat style guitar running through a number of effects pedals including a Boss DD-3, an Akai Head Rush, a Behringer Slow Volume, and a Behringer Digital Reverb. I believe there was also a small Danelectro Delay pedal and a few overdrive/distortion pedals. Everything was run into a small Vox practice amp (a cheap one that cost around $100 new) that had a spring reverb and tremolo effect available. The amp was mic'd by an SM-58 and an inexpensive Marshall condenser microphone. The keyboard sounds (mostly piano) were provided by an Ensoniq MR-76. I also did a lot of field recording in and around the apartment. Most of the field recording was done with a small Zoom handheld recorder. Some was done with the same Marshall condenser mic used for the guitar.

I remember sitting in my living room with a bunch of rubber stamps and hand stamping each letter on each sleeve, then layering a few other stamps to create the rest of the art.

A month or two later I got in touch with Vincent, who ran a digital label I very much liked, about releasing the digital version. He designed the cover art and released it on Camomille Music.

I had a lot of fun recording this. My favorite track was then, and still is, "Tin, On the Savannah". Not sure why.

As some listeners may notice: the title of the album is a reference to the book Watership Down, which I had read shortly before recording this.

As a further aside: the apartment where this was recorded was one of those "too good to be true" places. The rent was cheap for the time (around $800 for a spacious one bedroom apartment). It turned out to be extremely roach infested. It was also a very noisy place (day or night), there was no parking, it was gated (which sucked, and the gates were always breaking and getting you stuck inside), and there was trash and rotting food often just left on the grounds (which I did not see in the area they had me tour before signing a lease). I stayed until the lease was up and then got the heck out of there. At least some good music came from it.