Amigó 42
Amigó 42 is a ground-floor studio in Barcelona — a private space not open to the public, built for recording, production, and the ongoing study of vintage electromechanical instruments.
Albums released on Third Man Records, as well as records by The Shu Shu's, Gisele Jackson, and Scaramanga have been recorded here, alongside sessions with dozens of musicians and over 500 remote productions.
Read more — room, patents, and Berenice Abbott prints
The entrance is lined with photographs from Berenice Abbott's Changing New York series — images of a city shaped by industrialisation, engineering, and invention. The same energy that built those bridges and power stations also produced the instruments inside.
Further in, the walls are covered in patent drawings printed on foam panels — a solution I came up with to mount them directly without drilling a single hole. Guitar designs, drum mechanisms, organ schematics, early synthesiser circuits. They're there because understanding how an instrument works changes the way you play it.
