Noveller

What is your guitar of choice? "I was using a double-neck SG-style Epiphone guitar. Initially, I used the Epiphone played flat on a keyboard stand. I was able to do lots of dual eBow stuff and process that. When I used the double-neck there was a 14-minute piece that I really loved called “St. Powers” that is on two of my LPs. On that tune I am plucking the strings and chording as well as bowing. I was asked to do a show in the south of France and I flew there with the double-neck guitar and the hard case got completely destroyed. I realized if I ever want to do a tour of Europe it would cost a fortune to fly with it—and it weighed a ton. As a solo performer that is stuff that you have to be aware of—you don’t want to kill yourself getting to a gig. My first European tour I brought the Jaguar but I still laid it flat. Then I decided I hated bringing the keyboard stand, and it was hard to appreciate the instrument playing it that way. I realized I could still bow the guitar wearing it traditionally with a strap."

"My studio setup is very simple. I, for the most part, use all of the same pedals and same guitar, which is a Fender Jaguar – it’s a Japanese reissue – that I use when I play live on tour."

"When I played with the Brooklyn indie-rock band Parts and Labor my guitar was a 1972 Fender Custom Reissue Telecaster. They didn’t like the way it sounded. It was piercing and not full enough, it was fine for live shows but they were going to be recording and they encouraged me to buy a new guitar for that. I had always been interested in the Jazzmaster and Jaguar models but never had the money to buy one. Since it was being demanded of me, I found this one at South Side Guitars in Brooklyn. It was a 1995 Japanese model so I could afford it. I fell in love with it and started using it for Noveller stuff. There is still one song that doesn’t sound right called “Bleach Beach”—it needs the piercing sound of the Telecaster."

"That is the million-dollar question. Yesterday, I dropped off my new American Professional Fender Jazzmaster at my local shop, Future Music, to get it set up and ended up bringing home a double neck guitar."