Board To Death! Ep. 36 - David Okumu (The Invisible) | EarthQuaker Devices

It’s Episode 36 of Board to Death, and it’s a good one featuring Dave Okumu, producer, musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and frontman for the Mercury Price nominated band The Invisible. Dave, who has worked with Amy Winehouse, St. Vincent, Jessie Ware, and Jack DeJohnette, among many others, graciously takes us on a trip through his stage board and talks about what he looks for when deciding which devices go on his pedalboard. “I love feeling out of control when I’m exploring things because that sort of introduces new ideas and takes me to places I otherwise wouldn’t have gone,“ He says. Dave doesn’t just use pedals to match the sounds in his head; he also wants to discover new sounds and work with them. “Pedals perform different roles,“ Dave says. “There are some that are really functional, some that are very, very immediate, and there are some that you really want to really spend some time getting to know. There are others that every time you turn them on, they seem to do something different, and they