Phish bassist Mike Gordon's new album OGOGO is produced by GRAMMY Award-winning engineer Shawn Everett, the producer behind the boards for a slew of critically-lauded releases—this year alone on the new albums from The War on Drugs, Grizzly Bear, Broken Social Scene and Perfume Genius, among others. Everett had a big impact on the album’s sound. “A lot of Shawn’s stuff is experimental but not at the expense of the groove,” Gordon says. “Every instrument and every voice was recorded in a way that I’ve never seen before.”
OGOGO was recorded earlier this year in Boston and LA, and features Mike's regular touring band: Scott Murawski (gtr/vox), Robert Walter (keys), John Morgan Kimock (drums), and Craig Myers (percussion). Much of OGOGO was recorded at Q Division in Boston. “All five of us decided not to do what we had done before, but to be fresher and try to find our own voices. That started happening in a some jams… I want things to be interesting in a way that would serve the song.”
OGOGO is Gordon's fifth solo album following 2014's Overstep, 2010's Moss, 2008's The Green Sparrow and 2003's Inside In. Gordon sees OGOGO as a means of soaking his current life in and putting it back out again in the music. “Everything just came up serendipitously from writing the songs to finding the producer to finding the album title.”
