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Stories - The Small Square
Music Produced By: Paul Chastain & John Richardson
Video Produced By: BusyBoy Productions
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Two old friends convened. Songs were made up. Other friends were called. Recordings were recorded. Several other songs were thought up and dug up, some completed and some gently laid to rest. Time passed. More friends, more recordings and so on. The group of songs became a record. SmallSquare is this project.
Singer and multi-instrumentalist Paul Chastain and drummer John Richardson have come together in a venture which began in a 100-year-old farm building in the heat of a 100-degree Wisconsin summer day. Armed with a collection of borrowed, marginally functional recording gear and a pop-up camper control room, initial recordings were made.
Paul is the singer, bassist, songwriter and co-founder of the critically acclaimed Velvet Crush rock group. The band signed with mythic British indie label Creation Records who gave the band's first and second albums, the latter, the seminal Teenage Symphonies To God, worldwide release. Velvet Crush has gone on to record six full-length records to date.
Paul's career also includes work with a handful of other major contributors to popular music. He has been playing and singing alongside pal Matthew Sweet, from Matthew's pre-Girlfriend days onward. He has also been a known confederate of such pop music icons and ne'er-do-wells as Roger McGuinn, Mitch Easter, Ric Menck, Susanna Hoffs, Stephen Duffy, Tommy Keene, Ami Onuki, Unbunny and others.
John has similar roots, brushes with greatness and dubious associations. Among them, Joey Molland of Badfinger, Gin Blossoms, Jay Bennett, Brad Rice, Tommy Keene, Will Hoge, Adam Schmitt, Garrison Starr, Three Hour Tour and (Robert Pollard's) Keene Brothers. He also plays and records with DIY power-pop pioneers and long time comrades, Shoes. As a session musician and recording studio owner, John continues to contribute to an already lengthy list of recording highlights.
Stories - The Small Square
Music Produced By: Paul Chastain & John Richardson
Video Produced By: BusyBoy Productions
smallsquaremusic.com
facebook.com/DrumFarmStudio
Two old friends convened. Songs were made up. Other friends were called. Recordings were recorded. Several other songs were thought up and dug up, some completed and some gently laid to rest. Time passed. More friends, more recordings and so on. The group of songs became a record. SmallSquare is this project.
Singer and multi-instrumentalist Paul Chastain and drummer John Richardson have come together in a venture which began in a 100-year-old farm building in the heat of a 100-degree Wisconsin summer day. Armed with a collection of borrowed, marginally functional recording gear and a pop-up camper control room, initial recordings were made.
Paul is the singer, bassist, songwriter and co-founder of the critically acclaimed Velvet Crush rock group. The band signed with mythic British indie label Creation Records who gave the band's first and second albums, the latter, the seminal Teenage Symphonies To God, worldwide release. Velvet Crush has gone on to record six full-length records to date.
Paul's career also includes work with a handful of other major contributors to popular music. He has been playing and singing alongside pal Matthew Sweet, from Matthew's pre-Girlfriend days onward. He has also been a known confederate of such pop music icons and ne'er-do-wells as Roger McGuinn, Mitch Easter, Ric Menck, Susanna Hoffs, Stephen Duffy, Tommy Keene, Ami Onuki, Unbunny and others.
John has similar roots, brushes with greatness and dubious associations. Among them, Joey Molland of Badfinger, Gin Blossoms, Jay Bennett, Brad Rice, Tommy Keene, Will Hoge, Adam Schmitt, Garrison Starr, Three Hour Tour and (Robert Pollard's) Keene Brothers. He also plays and records with DIY power-pop pioneers and long time comrades, Shoes. As a session musician and recording studio owner, John continues to contribute to an already lengthy list of recording highlights.
