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One of the illustrations from the unreleased book accompanying the albumToni Oswald on recording A Love Letter To The Transformer – mentions of John

 

Written on December 8, 2009 in Other & with 16 responses
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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.

One of the illustrations from the unreleased book accompanying the album

One of the illustrations from the unreleased book accompanying the album

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.

 

 

16 Reactions to Toni Oswald on recording A Love Letter To The Transformer – mentions of John

  1. pehjott says:
    December 8, 2009 at 16:41

    omg,there's so much confusion...trowftd was recorded on a yamaha md8 and not on a reel to reel ampex 8track.the songs off from the sounds inside have been recorded on a tascam 488 cassette 8track.so all in all we learned nothing new but got confused...and toni didn't seem to know that john has a whole record called curtains which was recorded with the ampex reel to reel 8track

  2. Laws Tinsnow says:
    December 8, 2009 at 23:56

    do they (John and Toni) still communicate? they were "lovers" at one point in time, correct? I do not know much about their relationship

  3. Baro says:
    December 9, 2009 at 17:03

    How didn't she knew John has an album called curtains!?

  4. Whisper says:
    December 9, 2009 at 22:41

    Hey Guys,
    Its David, I conducted the interview with Toni. The interview was done via email so there were indeed some confusing parts in there, that would have been cleared up in conversation.

    Toni IS most certainly aware of the Curtains album, we discussed it in the past, and at that time she stated it was her favorite of the 6 albums in 6 months.

    The album she made, A Loveletter to the Transformer was recorded on the same digital 8 track as To Record Only Water For Ten Days, as she stated.

    She merely was not familiar with the specifics in regard to the Ampex reel to reel 8 track.

    I was curious if she knew if it literally was the same one, which didn't seem unlikely because John has stated he has a mixing board that was used by Television, John Lennon, and Kiss.

    Sorry for the confusion in the interview. Hope this clears it all up.

    • pehjott says:
      December 10, 2009 at 16:18

      ok,I'm surprised that john still has the yamaha md8 he used for trowftd as he said he hated the sound he got out of it,so i thought he sold it ...

  5. blah says:
    December 10, 2009 at 16:31

    That's so cute that she called him a cat man :mrgreen:

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