Issues

...What fascinates me in those albums is that you're listening to someone making music in a real place, not in an acoustically isolated studio. There are imperfections, and they are beautiful. There is spontaneity that's almost impossible to capture in a studio. And the music becomes part of its surroundings...

...Here's the part I find interesting: we build that anchor over years, usually without naming it. And it quietly decides what music reaches us, regardless of how good it objectively is...

...But what I love most about one-mic recordings is that there's nowhere to hide. There's one mic, one take, no overdubs, no studio magic. It's performance in the purest sense...