From Zammuto's Wordpress: "This track contains what I have come to believe is the ‘best answering machine tape of all time”. I remember the first time I heard the tape pretty clearly. We were in the van, a gray 15 passenger Dodge we called Arthur, on tour in 2006 somewhere in the Midwest. My wife and I were previewing some of the tapes that we had found during the past week when we first played “30 incoming”. By the end of the tape we were in tears. Every voice on the tape so direct, so sincere, sometimes somber, sometimes hilarious… I mean who talks like that? And y… read more
From Zammuto's Wordpress: "This track contains what I have come to believe is the ‘best answering machine tape of all time”. I remember th… read more
From Zammuto's Wordpress: "This track contains what I have come to believe is the ‘best answering machine tape of all time”. I remember the first time I heard the tape pretty … 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