Ed Castelow, left, and his interviewer, Anthonie Tonnon, share a meal. Photo: Supplied
Dictaphone Blues' Eddie Castelow wrote, recorded and mixed almost every instrument on his new album, Mufti Day.
The album came together over months of coffee-fuelled evenings in his room and in Mt Eden studio The Lab, which is in the same building.
“I’d go straight from work, loosen up. And then maybe I had a list of a couple brain trains I could jump aboard and go down, and hope for some inspired playing and parts.”
Eddie says when he was writing the album, the songs sounded colourful and reminded him of school mufti days back in Ashburton, where he grew up.
“It was an exciting time for me. You could show a little bit more about your personality. Let your freak flag fly a little bit.
“There was always a little bit of trepidation going on about what were you going to show up in and would your friends like it.”
LISTEN to Eddie talk more about making Mufti Day:
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