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In 2004 Camu Tao started writing what was intended to be his debut solo album King of Hearts. Having already recorded a handful of songs on which he was singing as opposed to rapping in Central Services, he began honing a unique sound for his debut solo album that was, as far as we were concerned, truly incredible. For three years we played the rough demos as though they were a finished record because Camu hadn't provided us with any other versions of the songs. We all knew that once he got in the studio and laid it all down the results would be mind blowing. Before he had the chance to do so he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and in 2008, after a long painful battle, Tero Smith, aka CAMU TAO, died.
In many ways this is a record of what could have been, a snapshot of an artist mid-evolution. Camu was a wildly talented man on the verge of something different and exciting that, due to his tragic and unexpected sickness, was left mostly unfinished. The majority of the tracks he left behind were rough demos with only the occasional fully fleshed out Pro Tools session. Some of the recordings use stock sounds from Garage Band, and none of the vocals were intended as final takes, save for one or two exceptions. Nearly all of the vocal recordings were done via internal laptop mic, capturing the natural reverb of the room where he recorded them. Camu would record his demos with the levels so hot that they would naturally bit-crush and distort - in lieu of being healthy enough to record and mix professionally he used the natural distortion as a sonic effect. We used it as a guideline whe
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Camu Tao
King of Hearts
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