BIG RED MACHINE

2018 release from this music collective headed by The National s Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. In 2008 Aaron Dessner sent Justin Vernon an instrumental sketch of a song called quot;Big Red Machinequot; for Dark Was The Night. This was before they had met in person. Justin wrote a song to it interpreting the Big Red Machine title as a heart. Ten years of friendship later there are 10 more songs. Big Red Machine. Each song includes a large number of collaborators via the People platform and the record was produced by Justin and Aaron with longtime collaborator Brad Cook and engineered by Jonathan Low primarily at Aaron s studio Long Pond in Upper Hudson Valley NY.