Alice Chapter 3

AM: Talking a little more about “Basketholder” ; you worked on that song with
producer Gordon Raphael, who is currently based in Berlin. What was it like to
collaborate with somebody who plays such a major role in the way the song sounds
solely over the Internet? Were there any disadvantages or obstacles?
SK: It was funny, we did an interview with an Argentinian blog and when we finished
the guy who was interviewing us, Nicholas Ellis, messaged me and said, “Hey are you
guys fans of Gordon Raphael’s work? Just curious because I think he would be a
great fit for you. I’m a friend of his and he’s heard of you before. I can pass along his
contact if you’d like”.
LL: We all thought it was BS.
(all laugh)
SK: So we emailed him the rough demos of the song and he wrote back pretty
quickly saying, “this is great, let’s do it” but at this point we thought it was Nicholas
Ellis the whole time just messing around with us or trying to get in and produce us.
But when we got the mixes back a week and a half later we all kind of looked at each
other and said, “OH! This is actually Gordon Raphael……” after that we did a few
quick back and forth emails with revisions and opinions on the track and it honestly
all worked out great! We have yet to meet him in person though.
JW: We’re actually trying to get him out to New York at some point this summer
though to work on a record if he’s available, so hopefully that works out.
LL: He’s extremely intelligent. The whole time we were writing back and forth about
what the song was going to sound like I was constantly trying to just get on his level.
He knows so much about sound the way he intends for people to hear the songs
he works on. It was such a great experience. I really hope we get the opportunity to
spend some time working with him this summer here in New York so we can really
bring a lo of our ideas and concepts for this new record to life with his help!