Wordblender Record Release
The ecclectic Wordblender project featuring the music and production of IQ’s very own Patrick Napper along with words and dark poetry by underground writer RJ May has just officially released their fifth album to little fanfare yet rabid critical acclaim (among the 13 people that have heard it thus far).
The long silence has broken. Word. The new Wordblender CD has now been mixed and is due out by the end of the year. Anatomy features 17 new songs criss-crossing genres, taking the spoken-word format into uncharted territory. The CD has been recorded slowly over the last three years and features many top-notch musicians from the Seattle area. Final mixes were engineered by Geoff Ott at London Bridge Studios (with the exception of two songs that were mixed by Justin Armstrong at Robert Lang Studios). Anatomy is gathering high praise from those who’ve heard some of the songs. Possible live shows may happen early 2008.
The IQ crew are found all over this with Steve Scalfati providing sax, piano and background vocals, Kip Beelman and Dudley Taft both with background vocals, and Dark Side of the Moon-inspired vocal stylings by none other than jingle diva Karen Vander Weide.
The tequila was out in full force as the gang quietly celebrated the release of the album with an intimate listening party at the home of RJ and wife Kari. The cheese platter proved almost as popular as the Cazadores and the new record!
August 15th, 2011 at 6:00 am
Final mixes were engineered by Geoff Ott at London Bridge Studios (with the exception of two songs that were mixed by Justin Armstrong at Robert Lang Studios).