Artist:Kent Eastwood

Kent Eastwood's 3rd studio album, Travelin' Tales, had its origins during a trip through Europe. Armed with his iPhone 3GS and a multitrack app, Kent wrote and recorded demos in churches in Dresden, stairwells in Berlin, a backpackers in Prague, and even stumbled across one of Jeff Martins’ 12 string Danelectro guitars in a shack in Ireland. This self produced work explores the potential of LoFi recordings, an experiment that began on his previous album, The Corktown Sessions, a New York inspired album recorded in a Brooklyn backpackers hostel. Keeping with the raw and immediate style of This record, Eastwood has taken things one step further, contrasting the vulnerable phone recordings against high quality studio recordings. "When I listened to the phone recordings they sounded great, When I then added layers of Hi-Fi the whole thing sounded amazing." His unconventional cello style originated when he first bought the instrument, "It was just natural for me to grab the cello, put ...