INNOVATIVE LEISURE
Mapache - Swinging Stars
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"It's
a
pretty
impactful
place,"
Finch
says
of
the
Panoramic
House,
the
artist
retreat
where
Swinging
Stars
was
recorded.
"It's
kind
of
dramatic.
It's
a
castle-y
building
on
a
hill,
way
up
overlooking
the
Bay."
Located
in
Stinson
Beach
in
Marin
County,
California,
the
Panoramic
House
has
recently
hosted
acts
like
My
Morning
Jacket,
the
War
on
Drugs,
and
Cate
Le
Bon,
and
was
the
ideal
combination
of
scenic
beauty
and
self-imposed
confnement
to
allow
Mapache
to
settle
in
for
their
most
cohesive
album
yet.
"That
environment
yields
itself
to
a
higher
level
of
focus
because
everybody's
together
for
a
week,"
says
Finch,
explaining
that
the
band
stayed
there
during
the
process,
sharing
every
bit
of
their
time
and
energy
on
a
shared
vision.
"We
were
all
captive.
No
one
could
escape,"
he
laughs.
Swinging
Stars,
an
album
of
calm,
second-nature
swagger,
is
the
natural
result
of
a
band
that's
existed
in
one
form
or
another
for
its
founders'
entire
adult
lives.
Finch
and
Blasucci
frst
met
as
students
at
La
Canada
High
School,
just
north
of
Los
Angeles,
where
they
both
had
a
guitar
class:
"There
wasn't
much
supervision
or
anything,"
remembers
Blasucci.
"It
was
really
nice.
And
we
got
to
just
play
guitars
together."
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