Asthmatic Kitty Records | The Welcome Wagon - Recording 'Esther' with the Danielson Familie (Behind the Scenes) @AsthmaticKitty | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 35 minutes ago.
Buy / Stream 'Esther': lnk.to/WWEsther
On a cold November weekend, The Welcome Wagon traveled to Jersey to visit the Danielson Famile to record the background vocals for The Welcome Wagon’s album ‘Esther,” which The Welcome Wagon released in November 2022. Here’s a look at the studio and the recording process, filmed by Aaron and Alex Craig.
And be sure to check out the The Welcome Wagon - Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Record-Release Special!
Links to full videos and the album in bio & stories.
Production company: We Are Films (wearefilms.com)
Directed by: The Craig Brothers
Cinematography by: Aaron and Alex Craig
Edited by: Aaron Craig
Buy / Stream 'Esther': lnk.to/WWEsther
On a cold November weekend, The Welcome Wagon traveled to Jersey to visit the Danielson Famile to record the background vocals for The Welcome Wagon’s album ‘Esther,” which The Welcome Wagon released in November 2022. Here’s a look at the studio and the recording process, filmed by Aaron and Alex Craig.
And be sure to check out the The Welcome Wagon - Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Record-Release Special!
Links to full videos and the album in bio & stories.
Production company: We Are Films (wearefilms.com)
Directed by: The Craig Brothers
Cinematography by: Aaron and Alex Craig
Edited by: Aaron Craig
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Listen: https://smarturl.it/catalina-love
Credits:
Footage: Behida Dolić
Edited: Devin Greenwood
Color Grading: Ben Park
Lyrics:
I don’t have another choice
I’m living in the void
When I think about you lately
My head fills up with noise
You left here two months ago
I saw the hand of God swing low
And the garden I had planted
Was covered in the snow
How am I going to let you know that I need your love?
How am I going to let you go Catalina Love?
Everything around went black
I sat up in the flash
Was it just me who heard it?
Is it just me who knows?
There are things I’ll never say
It will always be that way
Forever in your memory
Forever on your face
How am I going to let you know that I need your love?
How am I going to let you go Catalina Love?
I have a special place
A place that’s just my own
My namesake’s ash and bones
Are buried in the waves")
![The Welcome Wagon - Esther reads Philippians [Side A]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/S3uaiEGGvto/hqdefault.jpg "The Welcome Wagon - Esther reads Philippians [Side A]
Listen to Side B: https://youtu.be/uOyDZk_Dll4
As an art student at The Cooper Union in New York, Monique Auito, of The Welcome Wagon, passed the lonely hours in her studio listening to the calming crackle of cassette tapes her grandmother, Esther, had sent on which she’d recorded herself reading the bible. As a young mother, Monique had flown home from her grandmother’s funeral with a treasure trove of old magazine clippings, wrapping paper scraps, and invitations sent more than half a century before. Now, with her grandmother’s cassettes playing in the background, Monique began using pieces from this collection to create large-scale collages, beautiful, evocative, and almost haunting in their pastiche of the past. “Using the music as a starting point, I wove together any objects on hand that fit with the chords, the vision, the melody, the spirit of the songs,” says Monique, whose paintings provide the artwork for The Welcome Wagons new album. Her grandmother, Esther, gave the album its name.
In this recording, Esther reads from Philippians, tells the story of a teacher named Coila Cook, and sings Rejoice in the Lord Always.")
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Pre-order LP / Listen here: https://smarturl.it/river-of-music
00:00 American Foursquare
04:27 Catalina Love
08:56 Confident Sensitive Child
13:10 Save Me From Myself
17:47 River of Music
21:14 Birds of Virginia
26:19 Simple and True
29:32 Roseanne
35:02 Robin
37:39 San Francisco")
![The Welcome Wagon - Esther reads Proverbs, Psalms, & Ruth [Side B]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SO0Ga6y_iBs/hqdefault.jpg "The Welcome Wagon - Esther reads Proverbs, Psalms, & Ruth [Side B]
Listen to Side A: https://youtu.be/S3uaiEGGvto
00:47 Esther reads from the Proverbs
11:48 Esther reads from Psalms 23
17:11 Esther reads from Ruth
As an art student at The Cooper Union in New York, Monique Auito, of The Welcome Wagon, passed the lonely hours in her studio listening to the calming crackle of cassette tapes her grandmother, Esther, had sent on which she’d recorded herself reading the bible. As a young mother, Monique had flown home from her grandmother’s funeral with a treasure trove of old magazine clippings, wrapping paper scraps, and invitations sent more than half a century before. Now, with her grandmother’s cassettes playing in the background, Monique began using pieces from this collection to create large-scale collages, beautiful, evocative, and almost haunting in their pastiche of the past. “Using the music as a starting point, I wove together any objects on hand that fit with the chords, the vision, the melody, the spirit of the songs,” says Monique, whose paintings provide the artwork for The Welcome Wagons new album. Her grandmother, Esther, gave the album its name.
In this recording, Esther reads from Proverbs, briefly falls asleep, inserts her name into Psalms 23, reads Ruth, and explains her relationship with the name Ruth.")
