ZYGMUNT DAY & ECHO PRESSURE ANNOUNCE NEW EP, SHARE VIDEO FOR ‘MR SOL’

‘Mr Sol’ video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdqjfsL6isE

Soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/zygmunt-day/mr-sol-1

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Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure follow up last year’s full-length, “On Streets That Know,” with their new Ep, “No Hood, No Dogs, No Food, No Drink”. The band, which also includes drummer Joe Hyam, guitarist Giancarlo Grasso and bassist Nathan Kerntiff, recorded the EP in Madrid at Mr. Soul Estudio with engineer David Hyam, Joe’s cousin, in the heat of July 2014.

Once again, the band’s music addresses the difficulty and hopefulness of the UK’s current way of life, with the title being taken from an apt sign in the window of Zygmunt’s local charity shop. This time the band embraced more streamlined arrangements than the folk/drone of their debut album, drawing on rock, samba, disco and jazz rhythms. The new sound was made possible by the wealth of equipment available at Mr. Soul Estudio – a fully functioning Hammond organ and Leslie speaker, Wurlitzer and Rhodes electric pianos, a Yamaha upright, a beautiful vintage Gretsch drumkit, and a wealth of guitars, basses, amps and microphones.

‘No Hood, No Dogs, No Food, No Drink’ is released on September 18^th and a release event is scheduled for the 17^th September at The Finsbury in Manor House, London.

Madrid Day 3

We're in Madrid recording this week at Mr. Soul studios in the Barrio de la Concepcion district. The studio has a lot of vintage gear from the 60s and 70s.

After waking up with a sore head from staying up all night drinking Mahous and tinto de veranos we made our way to the studio for another day of live tracking. We were extremely productive, nailing the take on the 4th time through, then cleaning up a few bits with overdubs. because it was still the morning and we'd already finished what we thought would take us a day, we did a live take of another unrecorded song.

After an extended Spanish lunch involving more tinto de veranos we came back to start overdubs. I recorded fingerpicking guitar on yesterday's live take, and we added harmonium, MS20 synth and Wurlitzer electric piano.

The Wurlitzer was run through a Memory Man delay into a Fender Twin Reverb, to thicken what is already a deep tremolo sound. A Wurlitzer electric piano is an incredible instrument. The tone of it sounds exactly like feeling emotions.

We ran the MS20 through some outboard delays and choruses to soften it and provide a gain boost. We used the delay, as well as cranking the frequency modulation and filters to generate some subtly apocalyptic noise.

Tomorrow, more guitars, more organ. Hopefully getting to grips with the Hammond. We need to wait until David's studio partner goes out though, because the Hammond can be heard in 4 dimensions from 5 streets away.