Albums recorded in "unusual" locations....

Will start the ball rolling with "Priestess",courtesy of Gil Evans and other luminaries,recorded live at St.George church NYC.It was mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound.
Any other(sure there are myriads) "oddities" out there?

 

Schwartzwaldfahrt by Peter Brotzmann and Han Bennink: Recorded in Germany's Black Forest. A free jazz (literal) outing with Brotzmann playing various woodwinds and Bennink drumming on rocks, trees, a stream, etc.

 

"The Trinity Sessions" - Cowboy Junkies
"Music from Big Pink" - Bob Dylan/The Band
"Holland" - The Beach Boys

 

Even though it was a studio, I'll nominate My Aim Is True. The studio was the size of a small kitchen and Elvis had to record vocals and guitar pinned in the corner behind his amp and the keyboard. Still one of the best albums in my opinion!

 

Clearwell Castle - host to session by Led Zeppelin, Mott the Hoople, Black Sabbath and others.

Headley Grange - the former poorhouse where LZ recorded a bunch of stuff.

 

Tinariwen has recorded some of their stuff in the desert.

 

Some of the songs on Paul McCartney's London Town album were recorded on a yacht in the Virgin Islands.

 

How about all of Band on the Run, recorded at the EMI studio in Lagos, because McCartney thought it would be a cool place to visit.

 

Great Lake Swimmers' debut album, which was recorded over several months in an abandoned grain silo in Southern Ontario; crickets are included.

 

Twin Shadow recorded their latest LP in a cemetery:
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/22/392320167/twin-shadow-meets-his-muse-at-the-cemetery-gates

 

I guess Deep Purple's Machine Head. They had to relocate quickly due to a fire at the hotel they were at.

We ended up at the grand hotel
It was empty cold and bare
But with the Rolling Stones truck thing just outside
Making our music there
With a few red lights and a few old beds
We make a place to sweat
No matter what we get out of this
I know we'll never forget
Smoke on the water, fire in the sky

 

Howard Roberts - Antelope Freeway
He says on the Impulse! book that he was recorded in the middle of traffic.

 

No Prayer For The Dying
Fear Of The Dark
X Factor
Virtual XI

All by Iron Maiden and all recorded in a converted barn on Steve Harris's property.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graceland

In 1976, the Jungle Room was converted into a recording studio, where Presley recorded the bulk of his final two albums, From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee and Moody Blue; these were his final known recordings in a studio setting.

 

Jackson Browne's Running On Empty. Bus, hotel room, soundcheck. On The Road.

 

I think a good chunk of Pink Floyd Ltd. 1987's albums were recorded in a houseboat on the Thames. The guitar for SORROW was recorded in an arena (or possibly an airplane hangar) over a concert speaker system for that "big" sound.

 

Draw the Line --

Not being snarky, but that looks almost exactly like my grandma's living room, especially the polished burl coffee table.

 

Yeah....but was the ceiling also carpeted in greeen shag?

 

Trent Reznor recorded The Downward Spiral and I believe some of Broken (recorded a vid for "Gave Up") at the Tate house. He was also living in there. The door to the state house is also now the front door to his studio.
I believe Marilyn Manson recorded some of Portrait of an American Family in there as well.

 

I think you meant The Basement Tapes, right? The Music From Big Pink album was a proper studio recording by The Band, without Dylan.

 

Paul Horn.

Who else has recorded in a Great Pyramid, the Taj Mahal, a palace in Lhasa, and other spiritual settings?

 

Wasn't this one recorded in a NYC studio?

Their second album (the self-titled one) was recorded in the "pool house" on Sammy Davis Jr.'s Hollywood Hills estate, so I guess that would qualify as an "unusual location".

 

KISS' Rock and Roll Over recorded in an empty theater, the Star Theatre, with Peter Criss' drums recorded in the bathroom.

 

In the Pines by The Triffids was recorded cheaply in a remote woolshed in Western Australia. The loose atmosphere contributes to a great listen.

 

Trombonist Stuart Dempster. Organist E. Power Biggs. Although not in those exact locations. Pauline Oliveros seeks unusual sounding spaces in which to record, although not necessarily religious/spiritual. H.R. singer in Bad Brains, phoned in his performance for one of the songs on I Against I (I think it was Sacred Love) from jail where he was being held on a marijuana possession charge.