From Zammuto's Wordpress: "In 1931 Mahatma Gandhi was asked by Columbia Gramaphone to make a record for them. With some second thoughts, he decided to record an essay that he had written called ‘On God’. It is one of the best recordings of his voice still in existence, and Paul had found several instances of it on various historical LP’s in his collection. We used a small fragment of this speech for the track. There is no way to improve upon what he says, so we used it exactly as it was found: I do dimly perceive that whilst everything around me is ever changing, ever … read more
From Zammuto's Wordpress: "In 1931 Mahatma Gandhi was asked by Columbia Gramaphone to make a record for them. With some second thoughts, h… read more
From Zammuto's Wordpress: "In 1931 Mahatma Gandhi was asked by Columbia Gramaphone to make a record for them. With some second thoughts, he decided to record an essay that he … read more
The Books was an American-Dutch duo, formed in New York City in 1999, consisting of guitarist and vocalist Nick Zammuto and cellist Paul de Jong. In early 2012, Nick Zammuto announced the end of the duo and the beginning of his solo project Zammuto. Subsequently, Paul de Jong released two solo albums. Zammuto and de Jong met through a friend in New York City. Sharing similar interests but different backgrounds in acoustic music and found sound, Zammuto and de Jong took their sonic experiments to the studio. Eventually, with some urging by Tom Steinle of Tomlab Records, they created… read more
The Books was an American-Dutch duo, formed in New York City in 1999, consisting of guitarist and vocalist Nick Zammuto and cellist Paul de Jong. In early 2012, Nick Zammuto announced the e… read more
The Books was an American-Dutch duo, formed in New York City in 1999, consisting of guitarist and vocalist Nick Zammuto and cellist Paul de Jong. In early 2012, Nick Zammuto announced the end of the duo and the beginning of his solo pr… read more