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Lone Sly Noise is back with 'Satanic
Music to Dance To'
March 5, 2007 | After five months of intensive post-production,
Vacant Productions, in conjunction with Merbot Central,
has announced the release of the sophomore effort from
Lone Sly
Noise (LSN), Satanic Music to Dance To.
The group has followed up its atmospheric debut Warm
and Fuzzy with a variety of new studio trickery
and sounds.
After the completion of Warm and Fuzzy in
June 2006, LSN sought to record new material for a second
album. After negotiations with Merbot Central, LSN decided
on a three-week period in August to both write and record
the entirety of the material, marking a vast detachment
from the 10-month recording process of the debut.
According to group-member Carmon Brady H., the group
had grown tired of the playing the mindlessly unstructured
style of their first album, and desired a change of
pace, as well as of sound.
"[Warm and Fuzzy] was, essentially, a record-as-you-go-project,
and at times; it sounds that way," Brady H. said. "What
we wanted to achieve with this album was to keep the
soundscapes of our debut, but with a drastic enough
change to completely blow listeners with the new direction."
The group's management team, headed by Laura Lewis,
said the idea was to make a new sound, encompassing
the misguided ambience of the debut with a newfound
accessibility and fluidity. The conceptual idea of Satanic
Music You Can Dance To was brought up and eventually
was decided upon as the title for the new material.
The group recorded the album at its regular studio,
Merbot Central, as well as two other locations, including
the recent addition of Vacant Productions' own full
studio in Logan. The album was produced proprietarily
by the group, with group member and Vacant Productions
CEO C. Jon Jacobs heading the process at his home studio,
and doing the final mastering at Vacant Studios.
"It was a challenging project to undertake, especially
with no extensive training on production," Jacobs said.
"But I would be remiss to have passed up that kind of
opportunity."
Satanic Music to Dance To andWarm and
Fuzzy are available through the group's MySpace,
and are being added to iTunes US.
No Vacancy
After a three-month hiatus, Vacant Productions' chief
musical project, No Vacancy, has resumed the recording
process at Vacant Studios in Logan. No Vacancy songwriter,
Jon Jacobs, said the hiatus helped in the music making
process.
"I was just overwhelmed with all of the projects I
was undertaking at the time," Jacobs said. "The time
off helped me hammer down the final sound I was aiming
for with the album, and this time; I think I might just
have it."
Though ideally aimed for an early-spring release,
the album has undergone several dramatic changes of
style. Originally an atmospheric electronic project,
it was changed to Beatles-esque psychedelia. The latest
description offered by Jacobs has now been labeled as
"Acoustic Rock backed by an ambient orchestra for the
teenage soul."
Jacobs' production team
director, Chris W. Lewis, said Jacobs has recorded
some 30 songs for the album, and the final release is
currently set to be a double album, comprised of two
versions of each of the final 10 to 14 tracks.
"The album's first disc will be the sonically-charged
symphonic, pop-oriented half," Lewis said. "The second
disc will be those same songs, re-recorded with only
a classical guitar and sung in Portuguese."
The album, tentatively titled Over and Done
is still in the recording process, but Jacobs has agreed
to a early-fall release date. In spite of the heavy
amount of recording No Vacancy is undergoing, Jacobs
is still supporting the project with solo live shows
at various institutions around Logan.
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