I’m excited to share to some new recordings I’ve been working on over the last year. Chase Hamblin has just released the first two singles from his upcoming full-length album, VAUdeVILLE. Please enjoy “Beautiful Things” and “Round and Round” below, and download them for free!
Photo by Anthony Rathbun
Photo by Recording for the project began just over a year ago as a follow-up to his début EP, A Fine Time. Tracking is now more than half complete, and we hope to finish the remaining songs before the end of the year. This project was approached in a very different way from his first, which was entirely created and performed by Chase and Producer Derek Dunivan. Since the release of A Fine Time, Chase put together a band to do live performances of those songs, as well as many new ones. For VAUdeVILLE, Chase’s newly formed band, Robert Ellis on Drums, Geoffrey Muller on Bass, Corey Power on Guitar, and Jeremy Nuncio on Keys, all worked together with Chase to write and arrange their own parts.
I engineered the first six songs with the full band performing live at SugarHill Recording Studios over three different sessions, all tracked to analog tape before being dumped into Pro Tools. Chase and I then took the basic tracks (Drums, bass, electric guitars, and piano) to Whoopy Cat Studios and my home studio, Château de Rosewood, to overdub other instruments including acoustic and electric guitars, percussion, musical saw (Muller), keyboards (Nuncio), and vocals (Hamblin, Power, and myself).
After overdubs for “Beautiful Things” and “Round and Round” were completed, we mixed both tracks at Château de Rosewood, then sent them to The Lodge in Manhattan where they were mastered by Joe Laporta. I’m very proud of the work, and hope you enjoy the music as much as I do!
Look for an article and photo spread with Chase Hamblin in the upcoming issue (September 2011) of 002 Magazine and for the release of VAUdeVILLE towards the end/start of 2011/2012.
