We Are the Night Part XV: Bottled Fish (redux)
Our series, “We are the night” presents artists, promoters, production managers, label owners and others who are bringing the music world of the Czech Republic forward, from the past to the present and the present to the future. This week we present the second part of our interview with indie outfit Bottled Fish.
Playing for fun, progressing, elaborating, exposing, and achieving: all the steps along the road for a band releasing their first LP.
I had the chance to observe that vital energy with Bottled Fish, and I really wanted to document the feeling and aspirations they had about the recording process, so we met for a small talk to anticipate the release of their album today, 6 April, followed up by their release party in Swim on Prague’s Štěpánská tomorrow.
So how was the experience recording in a studio?
We feel like we have exactly what we wanted now, because for the previous record we were asking ourselves whether the recording was good enough for some master mixing, and then when we asked somebody to do the mixing or mastering, it was too money related.
Now we are really recording, with all that means in terms of the studio process. If the sound engineer (Tomáš Jochmann) asks us to change a part because he thinks it will sound bad because we have too many low frequencies, we simply do it. It’s more collaborative. Read More…