Rogan Mei climbs a mountain with his new single ‘Lefroy’. The Canadian songwriter recorded this song for his new EP ‘Dickies Green Plaid Jacket’. Rather than record in a traditional studio, Mei and his band recorded in the house he grew up in. Mei says, “Everything (except the female vocals) was recorded in the same room, by people I know, playing real instruments,” he says. “Very few records are made that way anymore.”
The song was inspired by a painting by Lawren Harris of Mount Lefroy in Alberta. Mei reflects on the inspiration, “As we stood looking at this mountain, I imagined myself climbing it, the first line and melody just popped into my head, and I wrote the rest in the days that followed.”
Ed Donnelly is a multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer and record producer from Los Angeles. He has worked with Willie Nelson, Crowded House, Marc Cohn, Jools Holland, Matchbox Twenty, The Cult, BoyHaunt, Gladys Knight, Trent Summar and The West Coast Mob, Smashing Pumpkins, Del McCoury, OK Go, Exodus, Molly Leach, Tom Morello, O.A.R., Madness, The Crystal Method, DrunkHungry, Deadmau5, Zac Brown, CrysP Tyger, Bighead Todd and the Monsters, Jake Shimabukuro, Barenaked Ladies, Tsar, Killola and more. Donnelly regularly performs with Nathan Jacques as well as Little Silver Hearts and records with GhostsDream. Little known fact: He previously held Top Secret Security Clearance with the U.S. Department of State and Q Clearance from the Department of Energy.
He currently runs The Barber’s Basement Recording Studio in Highland Park and is a partner in The Atmos at Lemontree Studio.
