THE BOOKS

The Books came into being in 2000, when Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong met through a friend while they happened to be living in the same apartment building in New York City. Although they were from vastly different backgrounds, they quickly recognized their shared love of acoustic playing and found sound, and immediately began pooling their resources. Fueled by their personal collections of samples and home recordings, and driven by a somewhat odd sense of humor, their first tracks naturally emerged in the organic-collage style that has defined their sound ever since. When Tom Steinle heard The Books first musical efforts he urged them to make a full-length release for his Cologne based label, Tomlab, and their first record "Thought for Food" was subsequently released in the ...

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