Toni Oswald on recording A Love Letter To The Transformer – mentions of John
Whisper78, a blog about sound appreciation, Toni Oswald has shared a lot of less-known inside bits regarding the recording of Loveletter To The Transformer, the first album of her and Josh Klinghoffer’s project, The Diary Of Ic Explura. The bits of that interview which might be interesting to the visitors of Invisible Movement, as John is mentioned, are below.
I think you said it [the album] was recorded at John Frusciante’s house, was it recorded on the “King Crimson†8-track?
(Laughs) What is that? I would like to believe that! It was recorded at John’s using his 8-track that he had used to do a lot of the stuff from to record the To Record Only Water for Ten Days album on. We used his synths, too.
The reference to the King Crimson 8-track was about an article where John said that Curtains was recorded on the same 8-track as In the Court of the Crimson King. I always wondered if he meant that literally the same, or the same model. Then wondered if you had recorded on the same.
Curtains from Niandra LaDes? I think he meant one like King Crimson (laughs). I recorded on a different 8-track of his.
Is that a dog barking during the instrumental towards the end? I didn’t think John [Frusiante] had dogs. Were they sampled? Field recorded? Also, was that a spray paint can used as a shaker?
Well, those would be neighborhood dogs. John is a cat man (laughs). I don’t know anything about a spray paint can. As I said before. Josh did the percussion at his house.
If you’re interested in reading the whole interview with ms. Oswald, done by the blog’s owner David Coupaud who was really kind to give me a heads-up regarding it, click here.
For the Myspace page with all info on The Diary of Ic Explura, click here.
For a related article with stills from Desert In Shape, click here.
