AWOOGA OPEN THEIR MINDS ON DEBUT
Amplifier labelmates team up with Trippin’ With Dr Faustus mixer on their new album.
Sheffield trio Awooga are to release their debut album Conduit through Rockosmos on April 20. It was recorded in Spain, after the band took the unusual step of advertising for a producer.
“We had done an EP, Alpha, in 2016, and wanted to move on from that record and do something different,” says bassist and vocalist Tam Ali. “We were after a proggy approach, but also something heavy and doomy. We needed a producer who understood this, and advertised explaining what sort of thing we were after. Iago Lorenzo replied, saying it sounded like exactly what he’d love to do. It just happens his studio is in Spain!”
Awooga spent a month recording the album’s seven tracks. And there is a linking theme between them.
“We never set out to do a concept album, but what we have realised is that there’s a mantra that repeats throughout. Each song is a key to open a door into your own mind. And the album title fits into this, because we hope the music is a conduit through to a part of your consciousness.”
There’s one guest on the album and that’s a Spanish singer named Cervi Theramin.
“He has a very low bass singing voice, so we got him in to do a part I could never have reached vocally,” says Ali.
The band are selling limited edition vinyl copies of
Conduit on their current tour with Amplifier. For a full list of the dates, go to www.facebook.com/Awoogaband. MD