check out this new video catherin min did for our new song water park...very flattering, talented girl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpopLDfP_Ns

if you like it spread it around! she deserves it!

well...we're DONE. got all of our recording and mixing out of the way and we're mastering this week. recording was amazing, we huddled up at clubhouse in rhinebeck ny, filled with beautiful vintage gear and even more beautiful people. we have a new video out SOON and are working on one other right now. we posted our record cover as well.

this has been such a long process for us...a lot of changes to come. we'll keep posting new songs and will have the record available soon plus a vinyl for those interested.


 

http://vimeo.com/6313545

rusty but fun

Well we just spent another amazing weekend up at the Clubhouse in Rhinebeck NY recording some new material with D. James Goodwin. Holy shit. That guy is talented and has a tattoo on the top of his head. It's not complete though because even though he is all badass and whatnot... no living person can withstand getting that much ink that close to their skull. IT HURTS. So I won't hold it against him.

We are almost finished with the songs "Happiness Through Radios and Wires", "Olivia", "my Dear" (take 2) and one other tune that has yet to bear a name. I want to name it "I Can't Wait To See What Happens In Season 5 of Lost" but the guys aren't into it. Whatever. Fuck them. Who's with me?

Now that I'm home again I miss being there and bought these on impulse:



i think they fit my head. Especially because i consistently have black outlines around my entire body. That's the style of the illustrator so I don't complain. He made me, he can erase me any time he wants.

Lately I've been getting really into music from Scandenavia. I recommend checking out the following bands: Rubik, Lapko, Downstairs, The Domus, Joensuu 1685, Logh, Paper.

That's a lot of music! Get to it!

I love you and I miss you.

Uncovered from the NLF vaults. Directed by Stephen Wuensch. Let us know what you think.

so we've been MIA for quite some time. dave has been busy with his other project, Sleep Station, and the rest of us have been wandering around the world, trying to find our place. we have dabbled in the studio several times over the last year or two and found it to be fruitless. there was no passion, it just wasn't time.

now it's time.

we would like you to come follow us on our journey over the next few months as we write and record our follow up to I Sing The Body Holographic. we have created a new website/blog that keeps everyone up to date on what we're working on, what songs we will be recording, and how we will be recording them.

come follow along at: http://newlondonfire.tumblr.com

see you soon,

New London Fire

friends & allies,

hi! so you rarely hear from us - so ya gotta know it's something good!

so do you like free music? how about when a band gives their entire record away just because they love recording records and simply would like people to hear them? i sure like that. it can sure be fun.

well our singer Dave (with help from everyone in New London Fire and even members of Kiss Kiss) has released a new Sleep Station record for free! It's titled Blood of Our Fathers and can be downloaded at the link below.

Please download this. He worked oh so very hard on it and... it's fucking amazing. All we ask is that you promise to vote in the upcoming election, okay? That will be your form of "payment" for the record, okay?

DOWNLOAD IT NOW

- jason

PS - expect some free new london fire music soon as well ;)

So singer/song writer of New London Fire, David Debiak, has a new record coming out for his other band SLEEP STATION. Do you like New London Fire? Well you will like his other band because:

1. It is the same song writer.
2. The new record is INCREDIBLE!

Check out the Sleep Station profile to listen to the songs. You will like what you hear and then pre-order the record! Click the banner below to order your copy, it's only $5. It will also hold you over until more NLF comes out!

Greetings!

Long time no talk! So this is us, New London Fire, letting you know that we've been very busy. Man...we love music...

David Debiak (you might know him as the singer/songwriter/guitar player of New London Fire) has released a new album under his other moniker: SLEEP STATION. For those of you who are not familiar with Sleep Station, they have been on Eyeball Records since 2001, have released 5 albums and have toured the country many, many times. New London Fire is very important to David but Sleep Station will always be his baby. If you enjoy the songwriting of New London Fire, you will enjoy the songs and sounds of Sleep Station because they are very closely related.

THE PRIDE OF CHESTER JAMES by SLEEP STATION came out yesterday on iTunes! To preview some of the tracks, go to http://www.myspace.com/sleepstation and to purchase this album on iTunes, go to:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=268052393&s=143441

Below is a letter written by David about the recording process of the latest Sleep Station album. This project is very near and dear to us, so please let us know what you think! Expect many New London Fire updates soon as well...

Love,

Jason // New London Fire

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"October 22nd, 2007

Over the last few years my mates and I would get together at Ryan's recording studio, we managed to borrow an old Sony tape machine from our friend Dan and we put it to good use. I'll try to recap for you some of the many highlights we had during this experience.

The recording, mixing and mastering process was scattered over the course of 3 years between tours, mental breakdowns, and all of the other wonderful obstacles life has to offer. No problems or dilemmas we had in life really mattered when we got together, as soon as Ryan turned the lights on in the studio we were somewhere else, in our own world where the only thing we cared about was making great music together.

Ryan's studio has no windows and the tracking room is a finished basement that stylistically hasn't changed since 1975. Ryan managed to fill the place up with Hammond organs, a piano, Rhodes, Wurlitzers, old guitars and amps. We would get together in the evenings and just fuck around until we would hit a wall.

Some of the best moments on the record took the least amount of time to do. "Hell Has Come With Me" for example was recorded in about two hours and it just felt like a great moment that was caught on tape. Label owner Alex Saavedra just happened to stop by that evening and he still refers to it as "one of the most frightening moments in my life."

Brad and Josh had just recently finished touring with the band, we had logged countless miles and near death experiences. I gave Brad some demo's and the two of them would get together for hours and sit down with the songs, writing parts that were perfectly complimentary to one another. Brad and Josh came into the studio and knew exactly what they were going to do and exactly how they wanted it to sound, it was a pleasure listening to it, hitting the record button was rather easy. I still recall how we went about recording "Settle On Your Name" it was another late night and we decided to put up the mic's plug in our instruments and just go for it. Ryan would run up the stairs to check and see how it went and then report back to us. We eventually got one take that just felt awesome, maybe not the tightest we played or the most in tune but when we played it we all really felt a connection between each other, we all knew we had to keep it. I remember feeling this amazing sense of satisfaction and relief, when it was over we all went outside for some fresh air only to find the car in the neighbor's driveway was on fire. I'm still convinced we did that with rock and roll.

I gave Brad a rough demo of the song "Carnival Fire." One night he called me up and asked me stop by his house where he was recording his parts. When I showed up I found a rather unclean Brad in a very dirty and scattered bedroom. I climbed over the instruments and tangled chords to sit down and take a listen. What I heard was brilliant, he managed to layer the song beautifully with great care. I asked how he got a choir to sing on the song only to find out that it was just him and his Mom huddled in his bedroom layering vocal tracks, I laughed my ass off at him and told him to please take a shower.

When Ryan and I sat down to master the record we felt that a nice transition needed to take place between a couple of the songs, that's when Ryan turned me on to the many field recording he has compiled over the years. We sorted through hundreds of tracks and eventually narrowed it down to the three that really made sense for us. Because of our lack of great mastering gear the process took us a lot longer than most records. We spent about a week on it until we felt like we got it just right, we didn't want to drop the ball in the final hours. We settled for nothing less than what we felt was perfect to us.

The content of the record had weighed heavily on me for quite sometime. I often felt myself reflecting on it whether it be in a small hotel room in Paris or in my sleep. Writing the songs was the easy part, they came naturally, living and reliving them was far more difficult but some say that the joy is in the journey. The relationships I had with Ryan, Brad and Josh all came together perfectly, I felt the songs were somehow tailor made to there strengths, it was as if they were meant to be in my life at this particular time for this reason. Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware of the fact that this is the farthest thing from a Sgt. Peppers it's just a few friends doing what they love to do, but of all the experiences I've had in music this has been the most fulfilling to me personally. I look forward to working with these fine young gentleman again and I hope you will enjoy this experience as well.

Sincerely,

David Debiak"

http://www.myspace.com/sleepstation