BUDGIE with JESSIE EVANS – Jessie Evans i/v ('Slices DVD' magazine, Sep 2008)
- 9 years ago
While in Berlin in mid-2007, drummer Budgie (ex-SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES and ex-THE CREATURES) started working together with drummer Toby Dammit (ex-IGGY & THE STOOGES) on demos for the debut studio album of American-born songwriter, singer & saxophonist Jessie Evans, who was then living also in Berlin.
The two drummers had been recording live drums for the last couple weeks of July & during early August 2007 at SAAL4 studios, engineered by Thomas Stern (Einstürzende Neubauten, Crime and The City Solution), while Jessie Evans provided vox/sax that were recorded initially at Himmel studios in Berlin but finally the recording was decided to take place in Tijuana, Mexico.
The album titled 'Is It Fire?' was released on 14 May 2009 in Germany on Fantomette Records, produced by Jessie Evans with Pepe Mogt (of Nortec Collective) as co-producer and featuring Budgie drumming on three in a total of ten tracks: "Blood & Silver" (an official music video of which was debuted in March 2009), "Let Me On" (an official music video of which was debuted in October 2010) and "Golden Snake", though no Budgie appearance in none of these two promo videos.
This is an excerpt of Jessie’s interview with German magazine 'Slices DVD' in Berlin in September 2008 talking about the recording of 'Is It Fire?' album and featuring the drumming sessions of Budgie with Toby Dammit at SAAL4 studios in Berlin in the summer of 2007.
The two drummers had been recording live drums for the last couple weeks of July & during early August 2007 at SAAL4 studios, engineered by Thomas Stern (Einstürzende Neubauten, Crime and The City Solution), while Jessie Evans provided vox/sax that were recorded initially at Himmel studios in Berlin but finally the recording was decided to take place in Tijuana, Mexico.
The album titled 'Is It Fire?' was released on 14 May 2009 in Germany on Fantomette Records, produced by Jessie Evans with Pepe Mogt (of Nortec Collective) as co-producer and featuring Budgie drumming on three in a total of ten tracks: "Blood & Silver" (an official music video of which was debuted in March 2009), "Let Me On" (an official music video of which was debuted in October 2010) and "Golden Snake", though no Budgie appearance in none of these two promo videos.
This is an excerpt of Jessie’s interview with German magazine 'Slices DVD' in Berlin in September 2008 talking about the recording of 'Is It Fire?' album and featuring the drumming sessions of Budgie with Toby Dammit at SAAL4 studios in Berlin in the summer of 2007.