I watched the Jim Jarmusch film 'Broken Flowers' a few nights ago. Liked the first piece of music on it, and googled on the film later. Came up with the song There is an End by a band called the Greenhornes and with vocals by Holly Golightly. I searched on her and came up with this, her own version of the song.
Beautiful. Bass is electric bass, very double-bassy.., woody and electric.
I wondered about the sound. Apparently, it was recorded at the Toe-Rag
studios in London. The owner, some years ago, knew that he wanted to run
a recording studio, but felt that so many people who poured their money into
today's digital equipment.., really just ended up sounding the same as everyone
else, and soon went bust.
So he took a different route. Guitars with flatwound strings , Vox amplifiers,
Revox tape decks, analogue mixing desks acquired from the Abbey Road studios.
Result.
