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Greetings everyone!
Welcome to our website. We started this site in 2003 as a way to share some of our favorite images and sounds that we've collected over the years. You will find samples and art from our three records in the dining room, livingroom, and hallway, videos from our DVD in the shed, and many other surprises in the rest of the house. Beware, there are lots of nooks and crannies in many of the rooms so try clicking everything to see where it leads. Also! We have a little web store in our garage where you can find t-shirts, records, and some other things to buy. And Nick will be selling some limited edition hand made sound sculptures that he's been working on, including the Spoon Box.
Please, have a listen to our records:
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Music for a French Elevator [2006, Independent]
1. Fralité 2. Egaberté 3. Liternité 4. It's Musiiiiic! 5. The Joy of Nature 6. Meditation Outtakes 7. A Long Villainous Sequence 8. Millions of Millions 9. Of the Word God 10. Ghost Train Digest 11. You'll Never Be Alone 12. Three Day Night 13. Ah..., I See |
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Lost and Safe [2005, Tomlab - TOM50] 1. A Little Longing Goes Away 2. Be Good to Them Always 3. Vogt Dig for Kloppervok 4. Smells like Content 5. It Never Changes to Stop 6. An Animated Description of Mr. Maps 7. Venice 8. None but Shining Hours 9. If Not Now, Whenever 10. An Owl with Knees 11. Twelve Fold Chain |
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The Lemon of Pink [2003, Tomlab - TOM32 & SPUNK] 1-2. The Lemon of Pink 3. Tokyo 4. Bonanza 5. S is for Evrysing 6. Explanation Mark 7. There Is No There 8. Take Time 9. Don't Even Sing About It 10. The Future, Wouldn't That Be Nice? 11. A True Story of a Story of True Love 12. That Right Ain't Shit 13. PS |
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Thought for Food [2002, Tomlab - TOM20] 1. Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again 2. Read, Eat, Sleep 3. All Bad Ends All 4. Contempt 5. All Our Base Are Belong to Them 6. Thankyoubranch 7. Motherless Bastard 8. Mikey Bass 9. Excess Strausses 10. Getting the Done Job 11. A Dead Fish Gains the Power of Observation 12. Deaf Kids |
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Other Work:
• The Loneliest Road: Soundtrack and audio production for Gregory Whitehead's radioplay, BBC3, October 2003. (Guest Room)
• 1%: Four tracks for the elevators of the new Ministry of Culture building, Paris, France within the project '1%' by D. Jourdan & Y. Oshima, April 2004.
• Music for a French Elevator and Other Short Format Oddities: A 2006 EP comprised of the four tracks for the 1% project and nine tracks of spoken word samples. (Purchase)
• Soundtrack for a feature-length documentary about the Biosphere 2 project, to be released soon.
About the Books:
We started working together in 2000 while living as neighbors in Inwood, a small neighborhood at the very northern tip of Manhattan, regularly referred to as 'Upstate Manhattan' by New Yorkers. Over the next few years we moved around a lot but always kept the music going through the mail, and occasional recording sessions. Since 2002 we've settled our working studio in the Berkshire Mountains of North Adams, Massachusetts. We do all of our own sample collecting, composing, writing, recording, mixing, and mastering in our home studios using PCs running cheap software and the ragtag equipment that we've pieced together over the years. What you hear on our records is exactly how it left our hands, with no producer, engineers, or sweetening in between.
Thanks!
Paul and Nick
The Books Are:
Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto
On Tour in April/May, 2005: Paul de Jong, Nick Zammuto, Anne Doerner, and Mikey Zammuto
Web Expertise and Animation: Justin Norman
All contents of this Web site are © 2005-2007 The Books