News - TOMORROW COME THE WOLVES -
03.06.12
- DJ SCUMFROG Ft. DAVEY LA "ALL GO DOWN" SINGLE -
the utterly wonderful "All Go Down" is out now on Tiesto's legendary Avanti/Black Hole label
featuring remixes by kevin sunray and andy duguid
as featured on Armin van Burran's "A State of Trance" radio show.
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About Born in London to a jazz musician father of French origin and a north London mother who worked in mental health, it comes as little surprise that the music of Davey La is therapy for the body and the mind. Some say it reflects his personality perfectly; the flair and romantisism of the French melds (and sometimes clashes) with the pragmatic and hardworking approach to his life and his music, the ethics of the working class roots on his mother's side as his foundation. But things with La are hardly straightforward; his world is never as cut as dry as would appear on paper. More cut and paste, he calls it. This might explain the lenghty absences between releases. Working on music every day, he is a perfectionist almost to the point of destruction making him both interesting and testing to work with.
On his latest full length (and first as a solo artist), he has this to say about the process:
"The biggest problem I come up against is budgetry restraints. My records are not easy records to make. Often the songs appear quite simple, but to get to them to say that way takes weeks, sometimes months of deconstructing and reconfiguring all the parts that make the final cut. It drives record labels and my manager crazy. But the thing is I just can't make a Davey La record entirely in my bedroom on a laptop. I wish I could. I cut some of the vocals at home because it's a nice safe environment for me - I hate being in the booth and having to "perform" for the producer, the engineer, his girlfriend and the UPS guy. I get terribly shy and don't tend to sing well. But apart from vocals, to get the songs to sound the way they do requires real studios with real limiters and compressors and decent microphones. Plug-ins are a pain in the jacksy."
Although Tomorrow Come The Wolves was recorded in Pro Tools in half a dozen studios both in the U.S. and in the U.K; it was processed and mixed at Cleveland's legendary Closer Look studios, with every track painstakingly (and expensively) reprinted through Urei 1176 limiters, a favourite of Davey's. "I love the Ureis. You can crank them up so high you hear the needle hitting the edges through the glass." Having produced a stream of hits for the likes of The Gap Band, The Ohio Players and other funk acts of the eighties and nineties, Closer Look was the perfect place forTCTW to be mixed. "Most days you'll find me listening to Parliament, Zapp and Prince. Electro stuff. Disco. And Scriti Politti. Always the Scritti."
As yet without an official release date, Tomorrow Come The Wolves arrives some two years after his debut E.P. "Rotten in Denmark" which received rave reviews and earned Davey an International Songwriter of The Year Award and four Billboard songwriting awards. With live shows pencilled in and rehearsals in place, it looks like all systems go for Davey La. But bearing in mind he scrapped the first cut of the album, the last one to be recorded at Lenny Kravitz' Edison Studios in Times Square, anything is possible.
Those who want to hear it are urged to send messages, tell their friends and campaign for the release of what Davey says is "My best debut album yet."
