Chess Club recently released their debut EP, They Wanted a Demo on November 17. The 4 track brain-child of Adam Chase (JAZZ IS PHSH, James Brown Dance Party) and Danny Darress clocks in at just under 15 minutes. The EP notably features both Felix Pastorius (Cindy Blackman, Jeff Coffin, and son of Jaco) and Isaiah Sharkey (John Mayer, D’Angelo).
Chase and Darress, also known by their stage names Champagne and Paris, recorded the entirety of the EP live at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, North Carolina. They recruited Cory Wong (Vulfpeck, Fearless Flyers) as their mixing engineer for the release. Headed into the studio with an all star line-up
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