From Zammuto's Wordpress: "If you’ve seen our live show, you know that video has always been our ‘front man’. Since Windish convinced us to start touring we knew we needed some kind of foil to keep attention moving around the stage so we could focus on the task at hand without feeling like an ant under a magnifying glass. Since then it’s turned into this strange hybrid form of entertainment, somewhere between a concert and a film. We shoot for a kind of synesthesia between the image and the sound by very tightly syncing them tonaly and rhythmically. I don’t mean synest… read more
From Zammuto's Wordpress: "If you’ve seen our live show, you know that video has always been our ‘front man’. Since Windish convinced us t… read more
From Zammuto's Wordpress: "If you’ve seen our live show, you know that video has always been our ‘front man’. Since Windish convinced us to start touring we knew we needed som… 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