From Zammuto's Wordpress: "Consciousness is exploding and developing! We find a lot of unmarked and cryptically labeled cassettes. Most of them just turn out to be mixtapes, which are fun to listen to in the van, but every once and a while there’s something really unexpected on there. The voice from ”Chain of Missing Links” came from a dubbed tape in a thrift-shop that had “meditation” hand-written on it, so of course, Paul picked it up. It’s hard to shake the feeling that there was some fate involved… the cosmic plane tilted in our direction that day. It was a gu… read more
From Zammuto's Wordpress: "Consciousness is exploding and developing! We find a lot of unmarked and cryptically labeled cassettes. Most of… read more
From Zammuto's Wordpress: "Consciousness is exploding and developing! We find a lot of unmarked and cryptically labeled cassettes. Most of them just turn out to be mixtapes, w… 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