Recording took place on August 28th in a solar powered studio at ‘The Premises’ in London. The band walked to the studio - as did the engineer - and following the recording the studio uploaded the tracks to the server of their digital distributor, for release through iTunes and other digital download stores.
No CDR's or paper press releases will be generated. Promo information will be distributed via email, and the tracks via download links. The process will even be filmed on solar-powered camera.
Wave Pictures recorded not one but four songs during their stint at The Premises, resulting in the Pigeons EP. The EP includes live favourite Long Island; One Line At A Time; Don’t Say I Haven’t Tried and David’s Evening On Wheels. Vocalist Dave Tattersall played the piano on these versions with Charles and Rebecca from Slow Club taking on guitar duties and backing vocals respectively.
Given the prolific writing and recording output of the indie three-piece The Wave Pictures, it is fitting that their label Moshi Moshi find a “Low Carbon” means of releasing their boundless creativity.
As Moshi Moshi co-founder Michael McClatchey explains, “ We thought it would be a useful experiment to see what we could do to reduce the carbon emissions associated with releasing a record. The initial aim was to make it carbon-neutral but it soon became apparent this would be impossible given the power needed to run the servers for delivering the tracks in to itunes. Nevertheless I believe this should still be the 'greenest' record release yet. When I mentioned the idea to The Wave Pictures they asked if they could be the ones to do it, and suggested they could walk to the studio from their house.”
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