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| Stuffy
& Rosie at Loho Studio |
Greg
Pilska & Dawn D'arcy
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| Stuffy
& Claudia the opera singer |
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| Sarah
Shmitt |
Meggles
Reinardy, the Screamer |
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A
near fatal bout with pneumonia not long ago changed Stuffy's
life. After a month in intensive care and another two
months recovering, Shmitt had a new viewfinder on life.
" When you almost die, things swirl into a weird,
urgent, chaotic focus," confesses Shmitt. "Everything
seemed either brutally crucial or it didn't matter at
all. One thing was for sure -- I didn't have time for
more demos. I had to make this record." And he did.
He spent hours in headphones, critiquing session after
session. His attention to detail was excruciating -- when
he decided he needed a trombone or an opera singer or
uilleann pipes on a track, he was relentless in finding
the right player to execute the sounds his "inner
ear" was hearing. The string quartet had to be human
players, not synth strings. The studio had to be analog,
not digital. The album had to be produced by him, his
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