Will You Find Me
All songs Last Affair Music BMI 2000 except This Water, Man in Mind and Firefly by Karla Schickele BMI 2000
(TigerStyle 005)
Released summer 2000
Songs
- Down On Your back
- Maybelle
- This Water
- Shrug
- The Radiator
- Shotgun
- Turn Me On
- Man In Mind
- Past The Past
- Georgia
- Triptych
- Firefly
- Encantada
- Don't Get Sad
Musicians
Daniel Littleton - vocals, guitar, piano,wurlitzer, c3, silvertone, organ, wineglass
Elizabeth Mitchell - vocals, guitar, wurlitzer, mimbal
Karla Schickele - vocals, bass, pianom organ, wineglass
Michael Littleton - drums, percussion, melodica, accordion, wineglass
Ida Pearle - violin
Rick Lassiter - double bass
Cecelia Littleton - viola, violin
Sue Havens - accordion, clarinet
Tim Thomas - piano
Tara Jane O'neil - melodica
Cynthia Nelson - harmonica
Bernie Worrell - wurlitzer, moog, synthesizer
Elaine Ahn - cello
Rose Thomsen - plastic hose, piano
Eddie Gormley - percussion
Hanna Fox - percussion
Andrew Hall - double bass
Warn Defever - dictaphone, wire recorder, salt packet
Recorded by Trina Shoemaker, Warn Defever and Ida in a number of different rooms from Dreamland in the Hudson River Valley, to Greene Street (cradle of hip hop), to Martin Bisi's concrete rooms in Brooklyn (where Sonic Youth recorded in the 80's), to Bill Laswell's Orange Studio in New Jersey, to Ida's own ON-ME SOUND studio and TIME STEREO in Livonia, Michigan (where Communist Guitar was recorded), Ida brought their unique enthusiasm and lack of common sense to an improbable but happy conclusion.
They had never spent anywhere near this amount of time or money working on an album. This record made all of them insane. They recorded entire string sections for songs, before deciding that the string arrangements didn't work. Then they began the process of removing the string sections from said songs, re-recording them on various antiquated recording devices, and then adding the newly mangled arrangements into totally new, completely unrelated songs. Final mixes were augmented by random sounds during the mastering process. Engineers jaws fell off (from concern or laughter, not from awe or amazement). Warn was found face down on the floor of the magic shop so many times that the band forgot about the times he collapsed on the mixing board ruining entire mixes and breaking priceless vintage gear in the process.
So much music was recorded during this time that an unlistenable box set could be made detailing the volume of sounds generated by the explosion of everyone's brain - although the Shh..EP (Time Stereo) and Braille Night LP draw heavily from these sessions as well). What was eventually released, "Will you find me" proves to be Ida's most peaceful and quiet recording thus far. How did this happen? Ask Warn, and he will tell you that he was never actually there.
First time evers: analog tape editing (cutting tape), combining digital and analog technology within the same songs, setting up tons of keyboards in a church room as if Rick Wakeman or Garth Hudson was gonna come over and jam with us, and then opting for our crappy $20 Silvertone pump organ instead of the fancypants mellotrons and optigons etc. lying around, Bernie Worrell of the P-Funk, one of our all time heroes, played beautiful electric piano and insane moog sounds on Shrug and Shotgun, Miggy wrote and recorded a song called "I can't wait to lose some weight". Everyone watched Twin Peaks. Honeyslides. The Ida/Capitol Records situation has been overmentioned elsewhere. Everything else that needs to be said about "Will You Find Me" is on "The Braille Night" and the "Shh..."EP. Mastered by the one and only Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound.
