Not A Trampoline
| Not A Trampoline | |
| |
| Studio Album | |
| Released | 2014 |
|---|---|
| Length | 36:33 |
| Label | N/A |
| Producer | Gregtronic |
| Addtl. Info | Engineered by Bora Karaca Mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters Recorded at the LaBORAtory in Los Angeles, California |
Not A Trampoline is the first solo album by Rob Cantor, released on April 14th 2014.
The first single Old Bike was released on March 4th, 2014 along with a new website,[1] and new Facebook Page.[2]
History
Pre-Release
After the Good & Evil tour in 2011, Rob would continue writing songs with no thought of making an album.[3] Part of his song writing time was taken up by freelance jobs with companies, as well as small tracks released on his SoundCloud. Eventually Rob and friend Ricky Lax would try to tackle creating an entire musical in April 2012, Mr. President, There’s an Asteroid Headed Directly For the Earth: The Musical.[4] These plans would fall apart however after Amazon Studios never picked it up.[3]
After he had written quite a few tracks, Rob would play these for producer Gregtronic, who enjoyed the tracks.[3] The duo soon went to work on recording songs at the LaBORAtory, the first being All I Need Is You.[3] The plans for it was to be a 4-track EP, but the amount of tracks soon piled up and it turned into a full length album.[3] Despite recording it separately from Tally Hall, the album still featured contributions from Tally Hall bandmates. Andrew Horowitz helped write and produce The Rendezvous and Perfect, Ross Federman helped write the drums on Old Bike, and Joe Hawley provided his blessing for Rob's recording of I'm Gonna Win.[5]
One track that was scrapped from the album was described as a "cool-sounding dance track" named "Let Your Little Light Shine" that was sadly cut due to it not meshing well with the rest of the tracks.[3]
Release
On March 4th 2014, the album opened for pre-release sales through Bandcamp with an unfinished album cover showing Rob with the release date. The music video for Old Bike was released on the same date, the first single from the album.[6]
March 19th would see the release of another single, Ghost.[7] Part of the album's rollout was a new part of Rob's website, Rob's Street Team. This was made to help publicize Rob's music and videos, rewarding street team members with items like demos, pictures, and physical pieces of the videos themselves.
On April 11th, the album artwork was finished.[8] The album title was inspired by a trip Gregtronic and Rob took after the recording sessions for the album were finished, where they came across some "signage" with assumedly similar sayings on it.[3] The artwork was originally intended to be a single flamingo feather, however when it was mocked up he felt it was too serious, a tone unfitting of much of the album. Bora Karaca would email Rob around the same time with a cover he created to replace a auto-generated cover iTunes made, which struck Rob as weird but fitting. Rob and Bora would go out to KFC to buy some chicken wings to photograph and made the final cover that same day.[9]
The album was finally released on April 14, 2014.[10] The Bandcamp release comes with a PDF file featuring lyrics and credits from the album, plus photos of items which definitely aren't trampolines.[11]
Track listing
| # | Title | Writers | Lead Singers | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Ghost" | Cantor, Gregtronic | Cantor | 4:08 |
| 2. | "Old Bike" | Cantor | Cantor | 3:07 |
| 3. | "Garden of Eden" | Cantor, Gregtronic | Cantor | 3:23 |
| 4. | "The Rendezvous" | Cantor, Horowitz, Gregtronic | Cantor, Madi Diaz | 3:37 |
| 5. | "I'm Gonna Win" | Hawley, Cantor | Cantor | 2:38 |
| 6. | "All I Need Is You" | Cantor, Gregtronic | Cantor | 3:19 |
| 7. | "Flamingo" | Cantor | Cantor, Andrew Laurich | 3:16 |
| 8. | "La Telenovela" | Cantor, Jhameel, Gregtronic | Cantor, Jhameel | 2:56 |
| 9. | "In Memoriam" | Cantor | Cantor | 1:11 |
| 10. | "Let Your Mother Know" | Cantor, Gregtronic | Cantor | 3:09 |
| 11. | "Perfect" | Cantor, Horowitz | Cantor | 3:21 |
| 12. | "Lonely (But Not Alone)" | Cantor | Cantor | 2:29 |
Liner Notes
Art Direction by Bora Karaca & Rob Cantor
Packaging Layout by Nick DuPlessis
Photography by Nick DuPlessis & Diana King
Photograph of Alan Alda by Greg Kessler
Produced & Mixed by Gregtronic
Engineered by Bora Karaca
Mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters
Recorded at the LABORATORY in Los Angeles, California
Management: Cyndi Lynott for WCP
Booking: Erik Selz for Red Ryder
Special Thanks: Lindsey Alvarez, Lauren Bar-Lev, Don Bodin,
Alyssa Cantor, Cathy Cantor, David Cantor, Chase Deso, Madi
Diaz, Ross Federman, Molly Ferguson, Mike Frederickson,
Joe Hawley, Tony Hoffer, Andrew Horowitz, Jan Jaworski, Jeff
Jenkins, Jimmy “Jet” Jenkins, Peggy Jenkins, Jhameel, Ahmet
Karaca, Zarin Karaca, Ben Ketai, Allison Kurtzer, Andrew Laurich,
Rick Lax, Andrew Lee, Jana Lee, Hanna LoPatin, Steve Loter,
Cyndi Lynott, Randall Maxwell, Steven Peltzer, Daniel
Reitzenstein, Dan Rosenberg, Ben Rosenblatt, Ryan Rubin,
Zabeth Russel, Zubin Sedghi, Michael Silver, Kip Smedley,
James Stonehouse, Scott Uhlfelder, and Ben Wise.
For Alan, my shimmering Hawkeye in the sky.[11]
References
- ↑ Rob Cantor's official website
- ↑ Rob Cantor's Facebook
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Catching Up With Rob Cantor. Hidden in the Sand.
- ↑ Amazon Studios Asteroid Musical page
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ OLD BIKE - Rob Cantor. YouTube.
- ↑ Rob Cantor tweet about the Ghost single
- ↑ Rob Cantor tweet about the album work
- ↑ Rob Cantor Facebook photo of the rough NAT cover
- ↑ Not A Trampoline - iTunes
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Not A Trampoline PDF.