Louie Prez

Ray and Doug at the Quiet Music Festival

I was preparing some support material for the Quiet Music Festival grant application and I came across this pic of Ray and Doug at the Festival from 2008, thought you’d like it. Had to cut Leo out because he was too bright in that white Chinese plastic suit of his. By the way if you [...]

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Album recording set up

Since the release of the album people have been asking – How did you get that sound? Louie Prez’s album ‘Scam’ was recorded using old school methods. Not in a fancy studio, where we all came in to record our parts on a different day. Not in a complex set of studio rooms where we [...]

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Album co-writers

Along with the writing that Ray, Leo and Doug did for the album, here’s some pics of the other co-writers from the SCAM CD. One of the background ideas of the album was that most of the tunes would be group devised. Tim, Bryan and Zvi are three of the musicians who sometimes play with [...]

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Second pic

This is a pic from the first album. Ray took one look at it and said: “It even makes it look like we like each other.” The photo was taken by Phil Greenwood who has that knack that good portrait photographer has of making you forget that they are there. This is also our current [...]

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First pic

We took this photo in Leo’s back yard and used it as our first press pic. One of the snappy punters took one look at it and said it looks like the CHEF the PIMP and the MOTOR CYCLE COP. Ray of course said: “We need to look like heavy weights” and “Don’t smile!”  What [...]

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