You’d never know that Owlbiter—the latest project from Brooklyn-based musician Matt Cascella—is the product of a guy who grew up playing the drums. After all, Owlbiter’s new album, Stud Farm, is full of gently plucked acoustic guitars and ukuleles, drowsy brass and the occasional keyboard atmospherics, but very little percussion. As Cascella explains, that was a result of the keep-it-simple approach he sought when Owlbiter was in its nascent stages.
“The band that I’d been playing in for five, six years crumbled fast,” Cascella explains. “There were a lot of unfinished ideas still kicking around in my head. I didn’t want to go into a studio and make it a big ordeal. I didn’t really have a band, I just had some oddball ideas, and I wanted to keep things scrappy. Get a good buddy of mine to come over and not think too much—just have at it, keep it really bare bones. There’s a trombone but, other than that, it’s pretty much bare minimum, which is how I wanted to do it.” READ MORE…
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