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SINGLE ENGINE AIRPLANE
Single Engine Airplane is the recording project of Joe Chang. It is his first music project that has actually manifested into collaborating and recording with other musicians.
It started out with a hand-me-down cassette 4-track given to Joe by Jason Smith of Night’s Bright Colors. The first recording was a tape under the name "Stonefox." It had songs that were all basically one track as Joe didn’t really know how to work the 4 tracks (it actually turned out that it was busted, and some tracks didn’t work, so he really did). The cassette was a pretty bad recording as the 4-track was busted (see last parentheses) and he had a cold at the time, so the vocals sound like, well, someone with a cold at the time. The second recording was under no name and had songs that were not great, but had more than one track. The third recording was under the name "Bailey Park," with early songs that would eventually become Single Engine.
The recording of SEA’s first LP, Plastic and Ground Floors, took place in May of 2005 in Asheville, NC, in John, Joe, and Aubrey’s home on a better cassette 4-track.
Joe conceptualized and wrote songs for the album while on some anti-psychotic medication and discovered the name ‘Single Engine Airplane’ in a film he rented at the time; a written prologue at the beginning had the name in a sentence, and Joe paused the tape because he liked the way the words all looked together. Then he pushed play again.
A second album is in the thinking stage, and it will probably be under a different name.
Other SEA recordings: Self-Titled (Demo). Flying Actresses (EP). Three Songs recorded in John’s Parent’s Basement (Demo). Fellow Musicians: John Ferrer played drums on P and GF; Aubrey Curtis played cello and violin; Greg Hudgins added Bass. Addison Brown currently plays drums, Adam Cullum sometimes makes it to shows to wander on and add trombone, guitar, other stuff. You can hear some songs here: myspace.com/singleengineairplane.