ORLEANS – Sarah Swain remembers being distracted by otters in the pond outside the window while recording background vocals with her drummer Liam Hogg at Jon Evans private studio.
“The whole thing is magical,” said Swain, of Sarah Swain & The Oh Boys!. “There’s a snuggly dog. It’s just beautiful.”
Swain is among the musicians, from both on Cape and off Cape, who have recorded at Evans’ private rustic studio overlooking a little pond in the woods of Orleans.
Evans, who grew up in South Yarmouth, is a professional bass player who has played on gold records and toured for 13 years with Tori Amos. He also toured with Sarah McLaughlin, and records music for NPR including pieces that have aired on “This American Life” and “The Moth.” He has appeared on several national television shows, including on the David Letterman show 14 times.
In the solarium: Jake Bautista on guitar and Rick Barry on bass.
When he is not touring or recording, he is home in Orleans working in his private studio where Swain was pleasantly distracted by playful otters. It’s the same place where Schuyler Grant remembered “his dog Copley fell asleep on my feet while I was doing vocal takes.”
And the room, which used to be a solarium, is where Jake Bautista, of Harwich, recently recorded an original song, “Good Word.”
“Jon’s studio is kind of refreshing,” said Bautista, who said he has recorded in college at Berklee School of Music as well as in several other studios including “a strange haphazard studio in Times Square.”
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