It's the year 2010 and we find Bourgeois Heroes in a long distance relationship, communicating musical ideas between Austin, TX and Northampton, MA. The "Musical Postcards" ep, is a document of this arrangement. Demos and versions of songs at various stages were mailed by the post; feedback was often returned over the telephone or on the back of a postcard.

The recording began at Jason's home on a four-track tape cassette machine. Justin Pizzoferrato (his more recent credits include albums from Dinosaur Jr., Hush Arbors and Sonic Youth to name a few) engineered much of the rest of the work at Bank Row Recording and then Henning Ohlenbusch (School For the Dead frontman) provided the baroque-esqe string arrangements at Rub Wrongways Studio. After these elements came together, everything was mixed down to 2-track stereo tape creating a homemade feel that contains both hi-fi and lo-fi sounds.

Fans of Wings, Harry Nilsson, Lee Hazlewood, the Beach Boys, the Monkees, the White Stripes, Serge Gainsbourg, Robyn Hitchcock, the Ladybug Transistor, the Pastels & Van Dyke Parks will wish to take this ep out for dinner and a movie.

Track Listing:
1. The Boy At The Record Store
2. I Wanna Be Nice To You
3. The Postcard Collector
4. Rosamonde
5. Rosie
6. Holly

Credits:
Guest Players are Lesa Bezo, Andy Goulet, Candace Hope, Eric Lee, Brian Marchese, Henning Ohlenbusch, Mike McLellan, and Ryan McGovern Quinn

String Arrangements by Henning Ohlenbusch, Eric Lee, and Jason

Recorded in Western Massachusetts at Bank Row by Justin Pozzoferrato, at Rub Wrongways by Henning Ohlenbusch, and at home by Jason

Mastered in Chicago, IL by Carl Gaff

Artwork by Ian Dingman. Text by Elise.

All Songs Copyright 2010 Bourgeois Music (ASCAP)

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