Los Angeles' Cassorla Release New EP Amigos - Out February 4th, 2014!
Download and share the new single, Bona Fide featuring Aubrey Plaza on Saxophone, premiered yesterday onStereogum!
Premiered on Stereogum yesterday, check out the new single from Cassorla's forthcoming EP, Amigos, out February 4th! Featuring Aubrey Plaza on saxophone, this is the first of many collaborations on the six track EP including Eric Earley from Blitzen Trapper, Taylor Goldsmith from Dawes, Crash from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and more. Cassorla is fronted by touring musician Ben Cassorla, who started out as a jazz guitarist playing with Thelonious Monk's drummer Ben Riley (in addition to Slick Rick, Edward Sharpe, and Washed Out through the years).
Ben Cassorla on how the collaboration came about:
I'd been talking to Aubrey on and off about playing alto sax on a recording, though it was mostly just joking (I thought). Then i got an email saying "where's my f@&#^$g sax homework." Now that's inspiration! I was busy making this EP, inviting different singers for each song, and Angel Deradoorian (formerly of Dirty Projectors) was going to sing "Bona Fide" but then dropped out. So it seemed like perfect timing. I made some "f(*&#^ing sax homework" for Aubrey and it turned out much better than i thought it would. I ran it through a spring reverb for the good stuff. This is my first time having a guest sax player."
More about Cassorla:
There’s the guitar player who’s worked with everyone from Slick Rick to Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and then there’s the guy recording demos and creating Microsoft Paint videos in the back of the tour bus.
For a long time, Ben Cassorla tried to reconcile those two; wearing one hat on stage and the other while traveling. On his debut EP, Amigos, he decided to put them together and bring the friends from his guitar playing life together with the demo and video-maker.
First he recorded the songs; some in Los Angeles, some in Portland, and some in Paris. He tried to keep things as simple as possible to emulate John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band. Using minimal instrumentation, vocals doubled roughly, muted drums, only old analog delays, cheap tremolos, vintage mics, and the $200 red Squier guitar he bought after two years of house painting in Philadelphia.
Cassorla then got together his amigos to record—assembling the friends he met touring, recording, or just playing cards. The resulting songs feature collaborations with Aubrey Plaza, Eric Earley from Blitzen Trapper, Taylor Goldsmith from Dawes, Crash from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Krystle Warren, Henry Wolfe, and Elizaveta.
And now there’s the EP. He decided to call it Amigos, because it wouldn’t have been possible without ‘em. |
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