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We didn’t want to just “record” an album—we wanted it captured, alive in the moment.
And that’s exactly what JUNO Award-nominated singer-songwriter Peter Katz and Grammy Award-winning producer Rich Jacques set out to do.
Free from the confines of a typical studio environment, the two alternated between Peter’s cabin in the woods north of Kingston, Ontario, and Rich’s hideaway in the foothills of the Topatopa Mountains in Ojai, California.
Their only real goal was to be in connection. To talk, pause, listen, process—and deepen a friendship.
Instruments were always within arm’s reach. They inevitably got picked up, ideas emerged, and slowly, an album unfolded.
“I wanted to be totally free from any mandate for this album. Whether it had radio potential or not was unimportant to me. I feel like I’ve TRIED so hard for decades to solve the music business riddle—when the truth is, I just love music. Music is one of the most healing and important forces in my life. I didn’t want to force anything or belabour it. I just wanted to make something that was the byproduct of the joy of making music; an artefact of a period of time where two friends connected, processed life in conversation, and sometimes captured the music that emerged.
Not that any of that should matter to the listener.
My hope is that when they hear it, they’ll know it’s a very human creation. It’s designed to invite them to do what they want with it, and attach whatever meaning matters to them.”
And that’s exactly what JUNO Award-nominated singer-songwriter Peter Katz and Grammy Award-winning producer Rich Jacques set out to do.
Free from the confines of a typical studio environment, the two alternated between Peter’s cabin in the woods north of Kingston, Ontario, and Rich’s hideaway in the foothills of the Topatopa Mountains in Ojai, California.
Their only real goal was to be in connection. To talk, pause, listen, process—and deepen a friendship.
Instruments were always within arm’s reach. They inevitably got picked up, ideas emerged, and slowly, an album unfolded.
“I wanted to be totally free from any mandate for this album. Whether it had radio potential or not was unimportant to me. I feel like I’ve TRIED so hard for decades to solve the music business riddle—when the truth is, I just love music. Music is one of the most healing and important forces in my life. I didn’t want to force anything or belabour it. I just wanted to make something that was the byproduct of the joy of making music; an artefact of a period of time where two friends connected, processed life in conversation, and sometimes captured the music that emerged.
Not that any of that should matter to the listener.
My hope is that when they hear it, they’ll know it’s a very human creation. It’s designed to invite them to do what they want with it, and attach whatever meaning matters to them.”
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