ChiTownSoundz | Discover Chicago's Hidden Gem: The Books Live At Millennium Park 2010 @chitownsoundz2566 | Uploaded 8 months ago | Updated 2 hours ago
Going through my archives I came across a couple of clips from a concert by The Books at Millenium Park from around 2010. Who are these guys I asked myself? Here's what I found. The Books were an American-Dutch duo, formed in New York City in 1999, consisting of guitarist and vocalist Nick Zammuto and cellist Paul de Jong. Their music typically incorporated samples of obscure sounds and speech. They released eight albums in 13 years before splitting up in 2012 to tend to families and pursue solo projects.
The Books were commonly cited by critics to be of a genre of their own. Zammuto has described it as collage music. Paul de Jong described it as "the new folk music...[w]e make our own instruments, use our own libraries of sound bites while trying to create something universally human." Although they have said that their influences include Nirvana, David Bowie, Roxy Music as well as new wave and classical music, these do not show prominently in their music,[32] though Zammuto was directly influenced by electronic musicians Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin. The Books' music usually consists of acoustic instrumentation of folk melodies usually played on guitar, cello, banjo and more, combined with a diverse range of samples obtained from cassettes found in thrift stores, which are digitally processed and edited. They also rarely use a drum kit in recordings and performances, instead favouring everyday objects like children's toys and filing cabinets, which were sampled and looped.] Some observers contend that their music is aleatoric,[ but Zammuto has disagreed, saying the music is very tightly controlled.
And that's it an interesting band you can't see anymore. ChiTownSoundz has hundreds of music videos from Elvis Presley 60 years ago to Joel Paterson last week. Check it out, subscribe and comment. youtube.com/channel/UCbnjJwbtedShzuw5Gqwj-jg
The Books, experimental music, Nick Zammuto,Paul de Jong,ChiTownSoundz,acoustic instrumentation,cello
Going through my archives I came across a couple of clips from a concert by The Books at Millenium Park from around 2010. Who are these guys I asked myself? Here's what I found. The Books were an American-Dutch duo, formed in New York City in 1999, consisting of guitarist and vocalist Nick Zammuto and cellist Paul de Jong. Their music typically incorporated samples of obscure sounds and speech. They released eight albums in 13 years before splitting up in 2012 to tend to families and pursue solo projects.
The Books were commonly cited by critics to be of a genre of their own. Zammuto has described it as collage music. Paul de Jong described it as "the new folk music...[w]e make our own instruments, use our own libraries of sound bites while trying to create something universally human." Although they have said that their influences include Nirvana, David Bowie, Roxy Music as well as new wave and classical music, these do not show prominently in their music,[32] though Zammuto was directly influenced by electronic musicians Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin. The Books' music usually consists of acoustic instrumentation of folk melodies usually played on guitar, cello, banjo and more, combined with a diverse range of samples obtained from cassettes found in thrift stores, which are digitally processed and edited. They also rarely use a drum kit in recordings and performances, instead favouring everyday objects like children's toys and filing cabinets, which were sampled and looped.] Some observers contend that their music is aleatoric,[ but Zammuto has disagreed, saying the music is very tightly controlled.
And that's it an interesting band you can't see anymore. ChiTownSoundz has hundreds of music videos from Elvis Presley 60 years ago to Joel Paterson last week. Check it out, subscribe and comment. youtube.com/channel/UCbnjJwbtedShzuw5Gqwj-jg
The Books, experimental music, Nick Zammuto,Paul de Jong,ChiTownSoundz,acoustic instrumentation,cello
