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The books playall album cover12/26/2023 Zammuto wasn't always enthusiastic about performing The Books music live, stating in an interview with KEXP in 2012 that ".The Books started to feel like a glorified karaoke, because we would play in sync along with these electronic rhythms." Zammuto expressed apprehensiveness towards touring, but says it is necessary to make a living, given his belief that people downloading the Books' music via file-sharing has put him under financial strain.Ģ006–2012: Hiatus, The Way Out and break-up įollowing the release of Music for a French Elevator, the band took a break from recording to tend to their new families, tour in support of their albums, and pursue some of their own projects, which included Zammuto scoring a feature documentary about the Biosphere 2. collects remixes of material sourced from the Books' albums.īefore starting a three-month tour of North America in April 2006, the Books had played only one concert, in October 2003 at a festival in Chicago, Illinois. The Books appear on his album Surrounded by Silence ("Pagina Dos"), and the E.P. Throughout early 2005, the Books collaborated with the electronica artist Prefuse 73. Aside from this, Lost and Safe was well received by critics. Zammuto has a greater vocal presence in this album, and the album was criticized for this change of sound. On April 5, 2005, the Books released their third studio album, Lost and Safe. The Books released a Mini CD of this work in 2006, under the name Music for a French Elevator and Other Short Format Oddities by the Books. In 2004, the French Ministry of Culture asked the Books to compose music for a new elevator in their building. It is similar in style to Thought for Food, but oriented more around vocals performed mostly by Anne Doerner.Ģ003–2006: Lost and Safe, Music for a French Elevator, Prefuse 73 Reads the Books The Lemon of Pink was released to critical acclaim on October 7, 2003. Anne Doerner, a guest vocalist on the album, said the process was much more arduous than the recording of Thought for Food, with Zammuto working on the album for five straight months. Zammuto and de Jong began the recording of The Lemon of Pink around this time. Shortly after the release of Thought for Food, the band relocated to North Adams, Massachusetts, near where Zammuto had graduated from Williams College in 1999, studying chemistry and visual arts. Praised by critics for its distinctive sound, it featured extensive sampling from obscure sources coupled with mostly acoustic instrumentation. Thought for Food was released on October 22, 2002. Zammuto and de Jong moved often during this time, recording in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and finally in the basement of a hostel in North Carolina where Zammuto worked for a while after hiking the Appalachian Trail. In 2000, the Books started work on their début album Thought for Food. Soon after, they began playing what they considered pop music, in comparison to their own works, under the name the Books. Zammuto said of their meeting that "we both kind of knew at that moment that we listened (to music) in interesting ways and had similar approaches to music". De Jong invited Zammuto to dinner at his apartment, where he played him some of his collection of audio and video samples, including a Shooby Taylor record. Zammuto and de Jong first met in New York City in 1999 as they shared the same apartment building. History 1999–2002: Thoughts and Thought for Food
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