Recent Projects
In fall of 2006, the Bus Stop Label released a compilation of Clapp's early singles, outtakes and unreleased tracks called "Something Strange Happens: Four-track Forecasts by Allen Clapp (1990-2000)." He is currently writing for a new Orange Peels record and producing albums in the garage of his modernistic Eichler tract home in Sunnyvale, California.
Clapp has engineered and produced all recordings under his own name, and the entire second album by The Orange Peels: 2001's So Far (SpinART Records). He has also worked as a recordist, producer and mix engineer with The Ocean Blue (2003's Waterworks EP), the eclectic Santa Cruz collective The Incredible Vickers Brothers, William Cleere and the Marvellous Fellas, and two albums by San Francisco co-eds The Corner Laughers.
He recently finished production on the fourth album from his band The Orange Peels, "2020." The record is the second by the band to be engineered, produced and mixed by Clapp (2001's So Far was the first). The album is out Nov. 10, 2009 on Minty Fresh in all digital download formats. The band's own Mystery Lawn Music is selling physical CDs as well as a limited pressing of 180-gram vinyl.
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