From Zammuto's Wordpress: "Hello, Greetings and… http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5wtjdQr7y1qasnx6.jpg Since our last record came out in 2005 Paul has been working on rebuilding and reorganizing his sample library. He’s got some 30,000 samples now, neatly categorized into folders like: ‘Foghorns’, ‘Insects’, ‘Mechanical Instruments’, ‘Strange, Small’, ‘Telephones, Beeps’. At least half of the library is spoken word and is categorized by source, with mysterious titles like: ‘1975’, ‘Morning Offering’, ‘Alpha Awareness’, ‘IF’, ‘Egos, Emotions’, ‘Canary Instruction’, ‘Frenc… read more
From Zammuto's Wordpress: "Hello, Greetings and… http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5wtjdQr7y1qasnx6.jpg Since our last record came out in 200… read more
From Zammuto's Wordpress: "Hello, Greetings and… http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5wtjdQr7y1qasnx6.jpg Since our last record came out in 2005 Paul has been working on rebuilding… read more
The Books was an American-Dutch duo, formed in New York City in 1999, consisting of guitarist and vocalist Nick Zammuto and cellist Paul de Jong. In early 2012, Nick Zammuto announced the end of the duo and the beginning of his solo project Zammuto. Subsequently, Paul de Jong released two solo albums. Zammuto and de Jong met through a friend in New York City. Sharing similar interests but different backgrounds in acoustic music and found sound, Zammuto and de Jong took their sonic experiments to the studio. Eventually, with some urging by Tom Steinle of Tomlab Records, they created… read more
The Books was an American-Dutch duo, formed in New York City in 1999, consisting of guitarist and vocalist Nick Zammuto and cellist Paul de Jong. In early 2012, Nick Zammuto announced the e… read more
The Books was an American-Dutch duo, formed in New York City in 1999, consisting of guitarist and vocalist Nick Zammuto and cellist Paul de Jong. In early 2012, Nick Zammuto announced the end of the duo and the beginning of his solo pr… read more