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Stelth Ulvang never slows down. In his fifteen years as the pianist for the anthemic folk band, The Lumineers, he simply keeps playing music, even when they stop. He records songs in new studios when the band arrives early in cities.

He performs at house shows on off nights and at dive bars on Mondays. After a Lumineers show in an arena, he hops into a cab to join another set across town. Despite this whirlwind, he manages to hold a third band together, writing and recording with the desert surf outfit, Heavy Gus.

And it’s not that he’s ungrateful or unhappy with the prominence of his Lumineers tenure, he just yearns for vulnerability, closeness, weirdness, instinctiveness, and realness.

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And it was this that drew him to The Deslondes Studio and a beautiful band in New Orleans. Through Sam Doores (The Deslondes) he was connected with Jon Atkinson, a New Orleans engineer who has multiple vans full of vintage, nearing-antique, recording gear.

Stelth Ulvang wanted to make a record with