Why Vaudrey Moved To Brooklyn To Record

Richard Vaudrey has been taken on a journey with his music, moving to New York seven years ago to write in Brooklyn and study as a classical cellist. He found himself in the thick of the performance art and indie-pop scenes, and his self-titled EP VAUDREY came to fruition from the plethora of tracks he laid down during that time.

"The songs are handpicked from a much larger catalogue of songs I'd written in the US," he explains. "If there's an overall theme, it's a real appreciation for the things that really matter in life that we can't quantify — friendship, love, personal and artistic. I have a really clear perspective in what I want in the studio, though I'm super aware of preserving happy accidents/fragile moments, for example one of the solos is from a bedroom recording of the first conception of one of the songs — you couldn't replicate that feel, ever," Vaudrey enthuses.

Mixed in "a tiny space of a divy Greenpoint rehearsal studio" with Andry Wright [Just Blaze, Eminem, Kanye West, Jay Z] "was a great experience" for the Melburnian. "I think what's more important is to be recording when you're not intending to - early ideas and inflections can be so valuable, so if you're set up always and can capture these you're winning."