So singer/song writer of New London Fire, David Debiak, has a new record coming out for his other band SLEEP STATION. Do you like New London Fire? Well you will like his other band because:
1. It is the same song writer. 2. The new record is INCREDIBLE!
Check out the Sleep Station profile to listen to the songs. You will like what you hear and then pre-order the record! Click the banner below to order your copy, it's only $5. It will also hold you over until more NLF comes out!
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Alive 2007
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Daft Punk
Release date: 04 December, 2007
Long time no talk! So this is us, New London Fire, letting you know that we've been very busy. Man...we love music...
David Debiak (you might know him as the singer/songwriter/guitar player of New London Fire) has released a new album under his other moniker: SLEEP STATION. For those of you who are not familiar with Sleep Station, they have been on Eyeball Records since 2001, have released 5 albums and have toured the country many, many times. New London Fire is very important to David but Sleep Station will always be his baby. If you enjoy the songwriting of New London Fire, you will enjoy the songs and sounds of Sleep Station because they are very closely related.
THE PRIDE OF CHESTER JAMES by SLEEP STATION came out yesterday on iTunes! To preview some of the tracks, go to http://www.myspace.com/sleepstation and to purchase this album on iTunes, go to:
Below is a letter written by David about the recording process of the latest Sleep Station album. This project is very near and dear to us, so please let us know what you think! Expect many New London Fire updates soon as well...
Over the last few years my mates and I would get together at Ryan's recording studio, we managed to borrow an old Sony tape machine from our friend Dan and we put it to good use. I'll try to recap for you some of the many highlights we had during this experience.
The recording, mixing and mastering process was scattered over the course of 3 years between tours, mental breakdowns, and all of the other wonderful obstacles life has to offer. No problems or dilemmas we had in life really mattered when we got together, as soon as Ryan turned the lights on in the studio we were somewhere else, in our own world where the only thing we cared about was making great music together.
Ryan's studio has no windows and the tracking room is a finished basement that stylistically hasn't changed since 1975. Ryan managed to fill the place up with Hammond organs, a piano, Rhodes, Wurlitzers, old guitars and amps. We would get together in the evenings and just fuck around until we would hit a wall.
Some of the best moments on the record took the least amount of time to do. "Hell Has Come With Me" for example was recorded in about two hours and it just felt like a great moment that was caught on tape. Label owner Alex Saavedra just happened to stop by that evening and he still refers to it as "one of the most frightening moments in my life."
Brad and Josh had just recently finished touring with the band, we had logged countless miles and near death experiences. I gave Brad some demo's and the two of them would get together for hours and sit down with the songs, writing parts that were perfectly complimentary to one another. Brad and Josh came into the studio and knew exactly what they were going to do and exactly how they wanted it to sound, it was a pleasure listening to it, hitting the record button was rather easy. I still recall how we went about recording "Settle On Your Name" it was another late night and we decided to put up the mic's plug in our instruments and just go for it. Ryan would run up the stairs to check and see how it went and then report back to us. We eventually got one take that just felt awesome, maybe not the tightest we played or the most in tune but when we played it we all really felt a connection between each other, we all knew we had to keep it. I remember feeling this amazing sense of satisfaction and relief, when it was over we all went outside for some fresh air only to find the car in the neighbor's driveway was on fire. I'm still convinced we did that with rock and roll.
I gave Brad a rough demo of the song "Carnival Fire." One night he called me up and asked me stop by his house where he was recording his parts. When I showed up I found a rather unclean Brad in a very dirty and scattered bedroom. I climbed over the instruments and tangled chords to sit down and take a listen. What I heard was brilliant, he managed to layer the song beautifully with great care. I asked how he got a choir to sing on the song only to find out that it was just him and his Mom huddled in his bedroom layering vocal tracks, I laughed my ass off at him and told him to please take a shower.
When Ryan and I sat down to master the record we felt that a nice transition needed to take place between a couple of the songs, that's when Ryan turned me on to the many field recording he has compiled over the years. We sorted through hundreds of tracks and eventually narrowed it down to the three that really made sense for us. Because of our lack of great mastering gear the process took us a lot longer than most records. We spent about a week on it until we felt like we got it just right, we didn't want to drop the ball in the final hours. We settled for nothing less than what we felt was perfect to us.
The content of the record had weighed heavily on me for quite sometime. I often felt myself reflecting on it whether it be in a small hotel room in Paris or in my sleep. Writing the songs was the easy part, they came naturally, living and reliving them was far more difficult but some say that the joy is in the journey. The relationships I had with Ryan, Brad and Josh all came together perfectly, I felt the songs were somehow tailor made to there strengths, it was as if they were meant to be in my life at this particular time for this reason. Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware of the fact that this is the farthest thing from a Sgt. Peppers it's just a few friends doing what they love to do, but of all the experiences I've had in music this has been the most fulfilling to me personally. I look forward to working with these fine young gentleman again and I hope you will enjoy this experience as well.
Remember the 'Julia' demo? Well we got another one for you:
This video is of David performing/recording an acoustic demo tentatively titled "I Can't Shake This Town" while Jason annoys him with a camera. Can you spot where Jason knocks the camera into the chair?? If you can you win a... forget it you don't win anything.
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Loney, Noir
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Loney Dear
Release date: 06 February, 2007
SO we have around 13 B-Sides from I Sing The Body Holographic that haven't been released. Some are tracks you have never heard. Some are alternate versions of songs. Some we might even just record for fun....
So I ask you this: Should we release a B-Sides album???
The guys over at PureVolume (best dudes ever) were awesome enough to have us come in and lay down some acoustic tracks (one being all new and shiit) while a camera rolled. Click the banner above to check out the 3 songs "Different", "Blood of Our Fathers" and "Somewhere In Between". Let us know what you think!
New music video for "Somewhere In Between" posted!
Below is our new video for the song "Somewhere In Between" off of our album I Sing The Body Holographic". We made this video on our own along with the help of a few good friend. We hope you enjoy... also... doesn't dave has sort of an Emperor Palpatine thing going on?
Time to write a new record! (part 1)
Current mood: energetic
Category: Music
Hey everyone! We have been spending a lot of time writing a new record and will spend the next 4 months or so writing, demoing, practicing, drawing, painting, blogging, vlogging...plogging (photo logging?)...you name it.
We want you all to come along for the ride through the whole writing process, so we are going to keep you all up to date with videos and any other media we can get our hands on so you can catch a glimpse of new songs. Below is a video that Jason and David did this weekend while working on some new songs. This is one of about 30 songs that David has writting for the new CD and it is tentatively called "Julia". Enjoy!
PS - we are going to still be playing pangs of shows in the northeast for the next few months. We apologize to those of you outside of our hometown area who have been sending us messages asking us to play your state! We can't wait to get back on the road, but bear with us while we take some time out to get these songs out of our heads! They've been haunting us.
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Come On, Feel It
By
Baumer
Release date: 12 September, 2006
So our Snocap MyStore player on our profile now has every single track on it that we've ever released. Considering we've only put out one album and an EP, that's not a lot...but we still consider it a fantastic feat. Check it out!
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