Back in summer 2020, John headed over to The Church Studios to catch up with James Vincent McMorrow, Paul Epworth and Lil Silva to talk about how they wrote, recorded and produced James’s album ‘Grapefruit Season’.
Taking tracks from Dublin to London to LA and back, James talks us through the myriad of iterations the songs went through, exploring the different writing situations and how all of his collaborators had such varied musical impacts.
Paul and TJ lend their producer expertise pulling out individual stems and breaking songs apart, as well as discussing their approaches towards bringing energy to the studio, and sharing thoughts on how production, sounds and songwriting are one and the same.
Listen to find out about the lyric James spent all of his life waiting for, why Paul was such a terrible studio assistant and how a serendipitous ‘adapter’ hunt led to the trio’s partnership.
Tracks discussed: Headlights, Gone, Paradise
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'Grapefruit Season' - Sony Music Entertainment UK
Intro Music - Sunshine Buddy, Laurel Collective
GEAR MENTIONS
Sequential OB6
Moog One
Moog Grandmother
Paul's Big Modular Moog
Teisco Synth
Xfer Serum Synth
Roland TR-808
Spectrasonics Omnisphere
Universal Audio Apollo Twin
Mellotron
iZotope Iris
Faith Saturn Guitar
LinnDrum
ProTools
ProTools Air Kill EQ
Apple Mac
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