So they’re from the 70s and you know, they’re solid state but I think that makes a big difference, and also the rooms. With a little help from his friends, Bisi turned an abandoned factory in New York into a hitmaking recording studio. “It was abandoned, filled with debris and I just took it out of there,” he tells me. “The whole thing was an old factory…So that’s why on the ground floor, I think that there were big steam engines down there, or maybe there was like a horse stable, just crazy stuff. That’s why there’s All these high ceilings and you know, it’s pretty massive industrial stuff, the area with the control room. So basically the recording area is underneath the control room. Way back in 1980, Brian Eno played a role in the creation of BC Studio. Which was the site of work on tracks for Eno’s album On Land. “He had a hand in helping it get off the ground,” Bisi told me. ![]() “I found the space and then he was interested in helping our group out – Material – and was interested in working in the space and kind of helped that happen which is very generous.” Material is a group formed by Bisi, bassist Bill Laswell, and keyboardist Michael Beinhorn. This team also worked on Herbie Hancock’s album Future Shock and the hit single “Rockit” from 1983. I mentioned that there seemed to be some osmosis going on between he and Eno that resulted in an overlap of sounds. ![]() Bisi explained “At that time, I wasn’t that focused yet on No Wave. And he had, he had a big part of No Wave, like, right, because he had that record called No New York in 1977 that really identified what No Wave was. So that, that so basically, even though it seems later like the connection was obvious between me and us and, Eno, at the time I didn’t really see the connection he was, you know, he did much poppier music.”įeral Myths is on Black Freighter Records.The original band in the stairway leading to Mark’s loft on Great Jones St, taken by John Chimples And then it would then when we were connecting with him, starting to connect with him in the studio was like 1980 and the session with him was 1981, and I hadn’t been thinking I’d necessarily be moving into No Wave territory.
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