Soul Rebels Brass Band, featured on that fast-paced A side, are from New Orleans, and it looks like they recorded their horn parts there. Much credit to the Miller boys’ production skills, because it sounds like they could have been packed into the room in Fishtown featured on the Miner Street Recordings homepage, in which studio the B side “Tarot” was recorded. (Other acts that have worked with Miner Street include Cornerstone Jesus weirdos Danielson, Haus 409 friends Dr. Dog, and fellow Goshen High School alumnus Tim Showalter of Strand of Oaks.) “Tarot” has big organs and bigger guitars, and a funky little portamento synth sound that’s thin and ringing in a good way—just makes the organ stabs seem that much fatter.
27 October 2016, Lotus, ‘Basin to Benin (ft. Soul Rebels)’ b/w ‘Tarot’
I finally got around to ordering a copy of Eat the Light, the double LP from Lotus, and Jesse Miller was nice enough to include a copy of the Lotus 45 “Basin to Benin (ft. Soul Rebels)” b/w “Tarot.” Of course, now I’m torn. The B side, “Tarot,” is literally more my speed at 105 bpm or so, compared with the uptempo “Basin to Benin” clocking in around 170. Those horns, though…
Soul Rebels Brass Band, featured on that fast-paced A side, are from New Orleans, and it looks like they recorded their horn parts there. Much credit to the Miller boys’ production skills, because it sounds like they could have been packed into the room in Fishtown featured on the Miner Street Recordings homepage, in which studio the B side “Tarot” was recorded. (Other acts that have worked with Miner Street include Cornerstone Jesus weirdos Danielson, Haus 409 friends Dr. Dog, and fellow Goshen High School alumnus Tim Showalter of Strand of Oaks.) “Tarot” has big organs and bigger guitars, and a funky little portamento synth sound that’s thin and ringing in a good way—just makes the organ stabs seem that much fatter.
Soul Rebels Brass Band, featured on that fast-paced A side, are from New Orleans, and it looks like they recorded their horn parts there. Much credit to the Miller boys’ production skills, because it sounds like they could have been packed into the room in Fishtown featured on the Miner Street Recordings homepage, in which studio the B side “Tarot” was recorded. (Other acts that have worked with Miner Street include Cornerstone Jesus weirdos Danielson, Haus 409 friends Dr. Dog, and fellow Goshen High School alumnus Tim Showalter of Strand of Oaks.) “Tarot” has big organs and bigger guitars, and a funky little portamento synth sound that’s thin and ringing in a good way—just makes the organ stabs seem that much fatter.
