Review – ANDREW CANE & BAND – 1996 Live At The Slaughterhouse

 

 

ANDREW CANE & BAND – 1996 Live At The Slaughterhouse

(PinkOrange Records, Released December 06, 2019)

 

Shortly before the end of the year, a real delicacy fluttered into my house. It is the first production of the Munich rock band MATA HARI aka CANE, which wasn’t released out due to business reasons. The insiders of the Munich music scene should know the former band around the siblings Claudia (vocals/ songwriting) and Andrew Cane (guitar/ keyboards/ songwriting) very well. At that time also still in the band: Holger Schulten on bass and drummer Harry Bischof. Hardly 23 years have passed since the EP, which was recorded under the direction of Chris Lausmann (ex-BONFIRE | ex-FRONTLINE | FOH for MICHAEL SCHENKER) at a live gig at Schlachthof/ Munich, is now surprisingly and unexpectedly released under the project name ANDREW CANE & BAND.

The first song on the EP ‘1996 – Live At The Slaughterhouse’ is opened by “Dancing Queen“, a top-class dance floor stomper, which was already produced by Andrew Cane for EMI Germany in 2000 and re-recorded by CLAUDIA CANE for her album “Friends” about two years ago. Although the original live recordings by ANDREW CANE & BAND bangs out of the speakers in direct comparison with an unbelievable elemental force, the latest recording from 2017 makes it clear that she has lost nothing of her vocal qualities over all these years and that she has succeeded damn well in spreading the live feeling in the studio. But it’s a little bit different with the great power ballad “Run But Creep” and “Jesus Was A Woman“, performed with an easygoing funky reggae beat. These two songs have already been released – as happened in 2010 on “Come Closer” by CLAUDIA CANE – but with the subtle difference that this album has been produced by Curt Cress and ANDREW CANE beforehand for a record deal with EMI in 2000 and has not been published – for reasons I cannot understand. If you compare the Slaughterhouse-Recordings here with the so-called major-production, the question inevitably arises: Which appreciation did the song material get in the end under the direction of producer icon Curt Cress? In my humble opinion – not obviously – at least from a technical point of view. It rather killed the raw charm and unbridled explosiveness of the original vision of ANDREW CANE’s production in 1996. The same goes for the casually strolling “Out Of Line“. But at this point I don’t want to give the impression that “Come Closer” is a toothless or even bad album. – Definitely not! Rather I would like to illustrate what an impressive ‘jewel’ with “1996 – Live At The Slaughterhouse” has been slumbering in ANDREW CANE’s archives for over two decades. The two previously unreleased songs of this EP underline this more than impressive. On the one hand the dizzying and hit-suspicious mid-tempo anthem “In Our Hearts” and on the other hand the happy backbeat of the rock n roller “You Are Naked“.

“1996 – Live At The Slaughterhouse” is an absolutely desirable object for collectors who like honest and handmade rock music. I must quote myself from two years ago: ‘CANE stands for quality!’

The EP, produced by Andrew Cane and mixed and mastered by Uli Eisner, is for the time being, only available as download at www.bandcamp.com. But this fact shouldn’t stop the ‘old school’ fraction from buying this release, because on this platform you can choose between the different audio formats (MP3, FLAC, ALAC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, WAV and AIFF) and thus meets the highest quality demands on the sound.

Adapted from Review Lauschangriff – KW 02/20 written by Sonny
Rock Chicks Magazine

Get your copy at Bandcamp

Discogs Updated

I’m about to research for all of my releases.

See the covers and links to iTunes here https://andrewcane.wordpress.com/discog/

Credits for songwriting etc. you will find here discogs.com

There’s more to come.

Cheers

Andrew Cane

‘I KEEP THE FAITH’ is Released

I KEEP THE FAITH is out. Get your copy @ https://t.co/kWX41KoFDi

I KEEP THE FAITH BOOKLET

The online booklet for I KEEP THE FAITH is up.
Read the lyrics, the cover an Pre-listen.

http://andrewcane.de/releases/ktf.xhtml

I KEEP THE FAITH

The front cover of the forthcoming single.

I Keep the Faith

Andrew’s forthcoming single “I Keep the Faith” will be released on March 7th.

Direct link:http://soundcloud.com/andrew-cane/i-keep-the-faith

Re-amping With A Passive DI-Box

Re-amping and it’s benefits

Re-amping is the process of recording the pure signal from instruments like bass or guitar into the DAW and then send this signal to stomp boxes and/or amps.
This turns your guitar amp or guitar rack into a real life plug-in.
And it could save you time and money once the final mix-down has started and you find out that you are not happy with the guitar sound recorded previously.
Instead of playing the same parts over and over again, until the sound is as you want it for the mix, you could record your guitars quietly into the DAW. Once everything is played to your satisfaction, you just blast it out to the real world and make it fit to your mix.
Another benefit for home recordists is, that loud guitar parts could be cut any time during the night and re-recorded with full amp sound while your neighbors went to their jobs. Or go to a professional recording studio an do it there.

Some might say that it feels odd to play for e.g. heavy metal riffs with the direct guitar sound.
No doubt – it would so. In this case the help of a guitar plug-in in your DAW or a POD PRO by Line6 would be the solution. Plus you should record the emulated sound parallel to the raw signal for the feel of it, while working on other tracks of your song.
Once I had to play the guide tracks for 12 songs of mine, with a boring click (THX Kai), before the drummer came in and I did it with the unworked sound of the guitar – which was a real pain in the A.

Hear one of the songs on Soundcloud exclusively for my blog readers

In Our Hearts

How to
Since passive pick-ups supply an unbalanced load with high impedance, a Passive DI (Direct Injection Box) is needed to match the low impedance, balanced line-level input of your DAW.
The advantages of a passive DI’s is that there’s no need for supply voltage as the DI’s galvanic isolation avoids hum and other unwanted noises in your signal.

Make a long story short here’s how to do it.
Guitar → Passive DI in Unbalanced 47 kΩ → 600 Ω Balanced Out → DAW
Use of the same Passive DI vice versa
DAW out → Passive DI 600 Ω Balanced Out → Unbalanced 47 kΩ → (Stomp Boxes) → Guitar Amp

Now, all you have to do is to mic the guitar cabinet and re-record the new sound to your DAW.
It’s easy like that and saves someone’s money on specialized re-amping boxes.

Examples

Listen to ´Are You Gay?’ in this song all guitars are recorded this way, sending the pure tone to real Marshall’s.

Also check ´Waking Up` by Go Panic! another production of mine. Here I sent the piano in the Choruses and the Break Down to a distorted Marshall Amp.

Have fun with experimenting!

Sincerly yours

Andrew Cane