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Ne trucy v trusakh by ZA and friends
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From the book “Shule Aroon” by Leonid Tikhomirov and Richard Mayer:
Richard
Before Lenka’s arrival I bought the same model PORTA-studio 4-track tape recorder that he had, in order to lay the foundation for our recordings. Strangely enough, I immediately developed a definite dislike for this equipment, and only Lenka’s arrival and our work on a new album made me take up with this beast again. At night while we were sleeping, Lenka held forth in the studio and laid down his tracks, and after I got back from work he would play different versions for me, and I would lay down the flute tracks, trying to give him as much sonic space as possible.
Leonid
In “my” room on Hunt Trail we set up our recording studio, calling it SCS (for Shoal Creek Sound) after the creek that flowed nearby. We decided to issue all our albums from then on under that rubric.
Every morning I worked in the garden, battling the jungle, and filling up with energy from the rocks, boards, and branches, playing the night’s tracks in my head and thinking about the next ones. At night I worked on the new album that we came to call “Shoal Creek Sound.” Its A side consisted of new songs written in Austin, and the B side contained new versions of our old hits.
The SCS studio issued four albums at one time: “Shoal Creek Sound,” “Kerrville Folk Festival” (a live recording of ZA performing at the Kerrville Folk Festival), “KUT – Interview With John Aielli on Eklektikos” (an interview on the local FM station), and “Ne trusy v trusakh” (the traditional recording in which took part Richard and I, Bert and Megan, Steve, Norma and her daughter Summer).
The work was finally completed, as was traditional with us, on the last day.
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released June 30, 1991
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