how it was done in Italy — My bubba & Mi

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HOW IT’S DONE IN ITALY is an unpolished and very early catch of My bubba & Mi’s music. More than half of the songs were written in the ten days before their first tour, in Italy, in order for them to have a full set to play down there, and they were pretty much the first songs they ever wrote. After a few concerts We were never being boring, the italian label which invited them to Italy, asked them to come back that same summer and make a record. And why shouldn’t they? Back home a month went by with small revisions, Bubba learned some banjo and My finished the last song, that one about Hawaii. And then they went and spent another ten days, recording their songs, in a big italian house with the basement full of home made prosecco.

The record came out nice and simple. Nice and simple, like the whole process. Far from over produced and with very little thinking through and polishing things shiny, even though My and Alessandro, the sound engineer, shared a crush on the Phil Spector girl groups (who are like cotton candy perfection). It was very hot and sometimes the steaming tired limbs can be heard underneath the strings or in the breaths let out in between the words. But cushioned by Italy and eased by gelato breaks, How it’s done in Italy is a very soft and simple first draft of My bubba & Mi, in their very beginning.

Then they went home and rescued a big bunch of old 78′ covers from pre 1950 about to be thrown out, which they now re-use for their vinyls. The cardboard covers are all different and all gorgeous, with their old commercial prints and glorious My bubba & Mi stamps. The cds come in mini versions of the vinyl, all of which Bubba made by hand during the following snowed in winter in Italy, with a little help from metal working uncles and paper factory cousins of Samuele from We were never being boring.

How it’s done in Italy is slow, easy, tasty, and rich of sweetness. Since you asked.