Producer Lewis Pesacov helms L.A.'s sounds of summer
Inside Lewis Pesacov's recording space, on the first floor of the Bedrock rehearsal complex in a dodgy stretch of Echo Park near the 2 Freeway, there is an oil portrait of the entire team of his production company Black Iris. The mostly bedraggled-looking staff is depicted with mock-Victorian splendor. It's hung next to a gigantic mounted marlin. The decor is a hilarious vision of winking, masculine mock-self regard.
And yet it might not be wholly unwarranted for the Fool's Gold and Foreign Born guitarist to begin preparing wall space for accolades.
In the last few weeks, his work behind the boards for Best Coast’s excellent upcoming debut, "Crazy For You," and a trunk-rattling rap remix of Local Natives' "Wide Eyes" have unexpectedly vaulted him to the center of L.A.'s 2010 summer-sound zeitgeist.