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Ep473: Damon Che and Kristian Dunn of Yesness
Manage episode 449528416 series 1554544
Yesness is a 2-piece featuring Damon Che (Don Caballero) and Tristan Dunn (El Ten Eleven). We discuss their formation, writing and recording their debut album "See You at the Solipsist Convention", math-rock, post-rock, other dirty words and lots more.
Topics Include:
- Formation of Yesness
- Kristian and Damon struggle to find musicians to collaborate with
- The “California No”
- Making an album from different parts of the country
- Meeting for the first time in the recording studio
- Over recording and having a lot of material to work with
- Working with instrumentals vs music with vocals
- Album title origin story
- Songs start as riffs, song titles come much later
- Strange song titles
- Using extra songs for b-sides
- Origin of the band name “Yesness”
- The band almost became “Keister Island”
- What does Damon think of the title “Math Rock”?
- Genres become limiting
- Not listening to Post-rock or Math-rock
- What’s on heavy rotation and playlists?
- The Spotify algorithm still struggles to satisfy
- El Ten Eleven’s “New Years Eve” coming after 3-LP set “Tautology”
- “New Years Eve” and “Valley of Fire” were conceived together
- The “Yesness” debut always needed to be a full length LP
- Can the Yesness LP be played live?
- Yesness challenges playing live – equipment stuffups
- Will they tour overseas?
- Selecting the album cover
- Damon recently upgraded his vinyl system
- Looking for records
- Status of the Don Caballero master tapes and reissues
- Damon’s YouTube video channel
- Grab all the pressings of your favourite albums
- “Everything in between the speakers and stylus is snake oil”
- Interview wrap up
Vinyl copies of Yesness "See You at the Solipsist Convention" can be ordered here.
Photo by Berto Campus
Extended, Commercial-Free & High Resolution version of this podcast is available at: www.Patreon.com/VinylGuide
Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/2Y6ORU0 Listen on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/36qhlc8
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Ep473: Damon Che and Kristian Dunn of Yesness
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Manage episode 449528416 series 1554544
Yesness is a 2-piece featuring Damon Che (Don Caballero) and Tristan Dunn (El Ten Eleven). We discuss their formation, writing and recording their debut album "See You at the Solipsist Convention", math-rock, post-rock, other dirty words and lots more.
Topics Include:
- Formation of Yesness
- Kristian and Damon struggle to find musicians to collaborate with
- The “California No”
- Making an album from different parts of the country
- Meeting for the first time in the recording studio
- Over recording and having a lot of material to work with
- Working with instrumentals vs music with vocals
- Album title origin story
- Songs start as riffs, song titles come much later
- Strange song titles
- Using extra songs for b-sides
- Origin of the band name “Yesness”
- The band almost became “Keister Island”
- What does Damon think of the title “Math Rock”?
- Genres become limiting
- Not listening to Post-rock or Math-rock
- What’s on heavy rotation and playlists?
- The Spotify algorithm still struggles to satisfy
- El Ten Eleven’s “New Years Eve” coming after 3-LP set “Tautology”
- “New Years Eve” and “Valley of Fire” were conceived together
- The “Yesness” debut always needed to be a full length LP
- Can the Yesness LP be played live?
- Yesness challenges playing live – equipment stuffups
- Will they tour overseas?
- Selecting the album cover
- Damon recently upgraded his vinyl system
- Looking for records
- Status of the Don Caballero master tapes and reissues
- Damon’s YouTube video channel
- Grab all the pressings of your favourite albums
- “Everything in between the speakers and stylus is snake oil”
- Interview wrap up
Vinyl copies of Yesness "See You at the Solipsist Convention" can be ordered here.
Photo by Berto Campus
Extended, Commercial-Free & High Resolution version of this podcast is available at: www.Patreon.com/VinylGuide
Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/2Y6ORU0 Listen on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/36qhlc8
491 tập
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