Rosler's Recording Booth Receives Best Concept Album Nomination From Independent Music Awards

Rosler's Recording Booth, written & produced by Don Rosler, has received a Best Concept Album nomination from the 11th Annual Independent Music Awards. 

 

Upon hearing the news, Rosler's first words were, "Now they went and nominated Spottiswoode, too, I hope? That CD's the winner, hands-down!"  In fact, Rosler's friend, Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode & His Enemies (who sings two songs on Rosler's Recording Booth) was indeed nominated but in a different category, "Best Eclectic Album of 2011". 

 

 

Rosler's Recording Booth, written and produced by Don Rosler, is a unique concept album, featuring ten spectacular New York-based artists:  Spottiswoode, actors Jeremy Sisto & Isabel Keating, Terry Radigan, John Margolis, Tam Lin, Tamara Hey, Kathena Bryant, Jon Albrink and Rosler. 

 

Rosler used Wilcox-Gay Recordios and Voice-o-Graph recordings as a springboard for inspiring the concept. "There was a Voice-o-Graph record I hadn't heard for many years, made by my Grandpa Abe  & older brothers Mike and Dave when they were crammed into a recording booth at the Jolly Roger's arcade on Long Island. When I finally heard that Voice-o-Graph of them singing, and then years later a Kitchen Sister's report on NPR called ‘War and Separation,' where they played Recordios exchanged amongst separated lovers and families, I was riveted." Rosler wrote these songs with "some of the Recordios rolling around in my head. While I didn't let these records dictate all of the characters or themes, they often, along with my ideas for the arrangement landscape, created some intriguing parameters."