Valentine's Day!

Valentine's show @ TT's, join the facebook event here

BENEFIT SHOW FOR HAITI

Sun Cut Flat will be playing a show to raise money for the Red Cross Haiti Relief Fund.

Where: TT The Bear's Place: Cambridge, MA (Central Sq) 10 Brookline St. Directions: http://www.ttthebears.com

When: THIS Wednesday 1/20. Doors open 9:00

The admission is 7$, the more people who come for our set the bigger our share will be, and we will donate 100% of our share to Red Cross. Please invite people in the area, and come with your friends so we can pack this place and raise money to make a difference in Haiti.

-Nick

JOIN THE EVENT ON FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=243352366860&ref=mf

News

MicControl Review of the new album "Running of the Bulls"

If you don't own the album: Click Here for a free download

We have a few videos coming to Youtube very soon, live performances of Sun Cut Flat songs

New Album/Free Download

Hey, click here for a free download of "Running Of The Bulls"

"Running of the Bulls"

Nick Lattanzi's new album is called "Running of the Bulls". It will be released under the name "Sun Cut Flat". The album features 10 songs, comprising 40 minutes of music. The album is being mastered at Moontower Studios in Cambridge, and will be released in November 2009.

"Running of the Bulls"

1. No Good Man

2. Running of the Bulls

3. Paper Sky

4. Becka Says

5. Look Alive

6. Don't You Forget About It

7. Tom Cruise's 33rd Dream

8. Rabbit Moon

9. 4 A.M.

10. Let You Down

-Bonus track w/ online download: "Simple Twist of Fate" cover featuring Allison Francis

Artists featured:

Isaac Haselkorn - Drums

Nick Lattanzi - Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Vocals, Bass Guitar, Organ, Keyboards, Mandolin, Harmonica, Tambourine, Sampling, Production

Noah Lattanzi - Trumpet on "4 A.M. & "Becka Says"

Allison Francis - Harmony Vocals on "Let You Down" & "Running of the Bulls"

Erik Kramer - Bass Guitar on "Rabbit Moon", "Look Alive", "No Good Man")

Anna Stromer - Viola on "4 A.M. , "Becka Says"

Cary Liptak - "Electric Guitar on "Let You Down", "Rabbit Moon", Harmony Vocals on "No Good Man"

Anna Wise - Harmony Vocals on "Look Alive"

All songs were home-recorded by Nick Lattanzi

"Sun Cut Flat is an idependent band from Boston. Singer/Songwriter Nick Lattanzi is the main creative force behind their debut album, recording all of the songs at his home studio. Longtime friend Isaac Hasellkorn plays drums on most songs, and guitarist Cary Liptak makes a few appearences as well. Their sound has been described as eclectic and consistent, marking a radical departure from Lattanzi's genre-hopping solo work (Paxamericana- 2008). Elegantly adorned with atmospheric layering and dense textures of sound, Sun Cut Flat's first album is sure to draw comparisons to bands like Radiohead, Beck, and the Black Keys. However ethereal the production is, songwriting is the basis of this album. Lattanzi exudes a raw energy throughout the album, drawing from his deep folk roots and putting incredible emotion into an original sound. Currently, Sun Cut Flat is rehearsing for a series of shows throughout Boston, and a college tour of the Northeast in the spring of 2010."

New Song + Pictures

Over the past few weeks I've been recording new songs, and I'm trying to put together the best sounds that I can to make a new album. I just finished a song that really doesn't fit in with the flow of the record as a whole, so I've decided to just send it out for free as a single. I hope you like it! (it sounds nothing like the new album will)

Click Here to listen to "Last Week"

If you want the song on your computer/ipod, you can download it here for free

More music coming soon!

Cambridge Shows Added

Shows in Cambridge this spring:

Club Passim: 5/25 - 6:15-8:00

All Asia Bar: 6/14 - 4:30-6:00

artwork by Gordon Callanan

Get Correct EP

Get Correct EP is now available on itunes. It contains two summer jams made for headphones.

Side A- Sunglasses Jam

Side B- Vibe Event

Click Here to go to iTunes

Beats by Nick Lattanzi (a.k.a. Mc Mailbox)

DJ-ing & Album Artwork by George Coffin

"Hype" vocals by Brother Kareem & Sishemo

Acoustic Covers

This is a collection of low-fi acoustic covers by Nick Lattanzi. 

Click Here to download.

1. Stripper Song (Wyclef Jean)

2. Julia (The Beatles)

3. Sodom, South Georgia (Iron & Wine)

4. Fourth Time Around (Bob Dylan)

5. Don't Let Me Down (The Beatles)

"Someone's In Your Corner" Video

Directed by Matt Leven, in an NYU dorm room

Interview on PellyTwins Blog

"Did you know that Cambridge folk-rock star Nick Lattanzi has a new album coming out this fall? As a fan of Paxamericana, I am really excited to hear what the next album will sound like. According to Nick, it's going to be acoustic, more introspective, and more cohesive than his past albums. The fact that he already knows these things proves how much time and attention is probably going into this record.

LP: How many releases do you have out?

NL: I have two full-length albums out on iTunes. I released Shiny Car! in 2007 and Paxamericana in 2008. Both were recorded at home in my bedroom with my computer, soundboard, and microphones. The drums were recorded in my friend's basement and at Berklee.

LP: What would you say the big differences between Shiny Car! and Paxamericana are?

NL: Paxamericana is a lot more polished and wide-ranging. It starts off at one end of a spectrum and finishes at the other end. Within the album, individual songs are really powerful to different people. Some people hate some songs on the album and love other songs on the album. It probably happens because I'm only 19 and I haven't really committed myself to one genre.

LP: Who listens to your music?

NL: A lot of the people who like my music are my friends. A lot of people have gotten into my music through the internet. Strangely, a lot of people in Europe like my music, probably because my album is on iTunes Europe. I keep getting a lot of friends requests from people in Engand.

Different people like different songs. Some of my friends hate some songs. I like it all.

LP: So do you think your music should be approached on a song-by-song basis rather than listening to the full albums?

NL: So far, yeah. My first two albums should be listened to song by song. Music is treated so differently now than it was when our parents were growing up. People download songs individually so each song becomes an entity of its own.

LP: What were your musical influences on the first two albums? What are some names you are usually compared to?

NL: It's hard for me to say, but a lot of people have said I sound influenced by a mix of Beck and Radiohead. Probably because of the spacey aspect.

LP: What do you mean by spacey?

NL: It's a little creepy sounding. Electronic, a little bit dark. Both albums end on a sort of dark note. But the first half of Paxamericana is kind of comparable to The Strokes or Vampire Weekend; reggae-type songs. It's all lyrically based. Half is catchy and half is philosophical.

LP: What are your plans for the next album?

NL: This fall, I'm most likely going to put out an album with Base Trip Records, which is going to be acoustic and more introspective than the past two albums. It's a continuous stream of sound rather than a fragmented collection of songs.

LP: So the next record is going to be more coherent as an album?

NL: Yes. All of the songs were written over the past year. They all follow the same vein. I guess they all feel like a mix between some Iron and Wine and some Bon Iver. That kind of vibe. Stuff that I've been listening to, moods I've tried to get out.

LP: Is the album lyrically coherent as well?

NL: Yeah, the album as a whole is my focus rather than individual songs. I feel like I've made a bunch of individual songs that people can listen to and enjoy and now I want to make a very introspective expressive album that says who I am. Not just like, party music.

LP: Do you think that music listeners/kids today don't appreciate the idea of a full album?

NL: I think [listening to a full album] is only important so far as the music is made that way. A lot of music isn't made that way now, which is fine. I feel like there's no correct way to make music. Music changes over time. All of my favorite artists changed so much over time.

LP: Do you have specific changes in mind for past this next album?

NL: I'm not sure, but anything I do, I want it to be intensely layered, with things being intensely mixed or layered. That's what I want to try next, intertwining technology and music.

LP: Do you think when music's all layered like that, like Animal Collective or Radiohead or something, does it take away from the significance of lyrics?

NL: It changes what lyrics mean, and the approach of lyrics. For some bands that I have listened to a lot, the voice has been like an instrument. You catch what they're saying a second later, rather than right away, like when you're listening to Bob Dylan. There's that distinct difference between folk traditions of storytelling versus muddling your words. It's like having snapshots of meaning (like Thom yorke) versus novels of meaning (like Bob Dylan).

LP: Speaking of folk traditions and Bob Dylan, can you quickly remind everyone of your roots in that sort of music?

NL: Yeah. I learned how to play music from playing at Club Passim in Harvard Square, and that's the mecca of Cambridge folkies. They're all about the story. So when I first started writing songs I was focusing on the story, listening to songs with clear meaning that you can easily connect to. That's what folk is to me. I was able to play at the Boston Folk Festival and they really liked my song "American Eyes," so I kind of have a fan base among that crowd of older folk fans from my parents generation. In the future I'm really interested in doing electronic stuff. Taking what I've learned from the folk traditions and putting it into music of our generation.

POSTED BY LIZ PELLY AT 12:03 PM