After meetings and discussions for our research, we decided to focus our EP in a similar style to Laura Marling producer Ethan Johns. On Ethan Johns’ about section on his website, he boasts a wide list of things he can do, whether it be producing or playing music himself or composing parts for other musicians. We chose to follow Johns’ style when Lizzie decided, and asked if I would play guitar on her recordings, as she didn’t feel overly confident in recording all the guitar parts for the EP. We decided the best way to go about recording the EP would be for her to play the base structure (guitar & vocals) of each song, record them as a little demo then I could go off and write parts for the extra instrumentation. Ethan Johns is someone who works similarly to the way this EP is going. Working closely with the artists he would collaborate with, he would compose parts, record instruments, then produce and mix it later. As I would be composing additional parts, recording parts in the studio, then producing the EP, we thought that Ethan Johns represented what we were looking to achieve the closest.

Ethan Johns ‘About’ – http://www.ethanjohns.com/about/