White Wilderness (Dead Oceans) is the latest album from the San Francisco-based John Vanderslice, and he’s joined on it by the classically trained Magik*Magik Orchestra. MMO artistic director Minna Choi arranged and conducted the Vanderslice-written music on the LP, which was recorded in a whirlwind three-day session by producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Walkmen, Bill Callahan). Vanderslice himself is no stranger to production, running the Tiny Telephone recording studio for 14 years and having produced records by the likes of Spoon and the Mountain Goats. Now he can add MAGNET guest editor to his resume, as that’s what he’s doing at magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with him.
Vanderslice: I’ve wasted so many hours trying to find the perfect 1,000-acre plot of land for my wife and me to build a 300-square-foot cabin. Does it matter we are dead broke? No! It’s way more fun than saving “itineraries” on Expedia. (And that’s pretty fun.) Start here. Try Trinity or Mendocino! What about that dark horse, Lassen County? Forget ranches and farms; you want raw land. It’s OK if there’s a wellhead.
Video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUUk7uJeg0g
