by Sarah Chauncey

Tribe: Just Bob
Tunes: melodic singer-songwriter, sometimes with band, sometimes without
To Contact: 309-3495 Cambie Street, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4R3 bkemmis@compuserve.com

Talk about guest stars. Among the guests on Bob Kemmis’ debut album, Kemmisutra, are three members of Odds (the fourth, Steven Drake, co-produced and mixed the CD) and Ryan Dahle (Age of Electric, Limblifter).
Four of the seven songs were recorded on the Neve console at Greenhouse Studios in Vancouver; the same half was mixed at The Factory because, as Kemmis explains, “Greenhouse sold the Neve and The Factory were the only other studio in town who had one available.” Maintaining consistency with the board was important “to Steven because of its warm characteristics.”
The liner notes credit the other three songs to “Now Suck! Studios” which, Kemmis wryly notes, “Is the term of endearment that we gave to the ever-changing surroundings that the portability supplied us with.” The ‘portability’ came in the form of Northey’s 8-track hard drive recorder, which Kemmis and co. set up wherever they could – the basement of Vancouver’s Roxy, the homes of Northey and pianist Simon Kendall, among other places.
Craig Waddell (Moist) mastered the album, in one fell swoop, at Gotham City Studios. Kemmis notes, “[That] helped to give the songs a continuity and consistency that might not have occurred if we had mixed and mastered in the same patchwork style that we recorded in.”

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