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admin — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:09:06 +0000

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Flight Feathers album out now

admin — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:44:55 +0000

The Flight Feathers new album ‘In the Darkness of My Night’ is out now. The entire album was tracked and mixed here at the studio, and mastered by Adrian Morgan of Timeless Mastering.

The entire album is streaming and available as a free download from the band’s bandcamp.com page.

Flight Feathers – Summer Fields

White Hills, Thrill Jockey Records stopped by

admin — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:30:08 +0000

White Hills, of Thrill Jockey Records, stopped by to lay down some tracks for their new album. The results were LOUD!

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‘Sunspotted’ by Heavy Winged out now

admin — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:11:01 +0000

The latest Heavy Winged album ‘Sunspotted’, recorded and mixed here at the studio, is out now on Type Records.

Boomkat – “There’s still enough grit in the recording to demonstrate that we’re not listening to a major studio production, but the new found clarity brings us closer to a “real” representation of the group, comparable to actually sitting in the room with them while they power through two extended tracks of transcendent, ritualistic and incredibly dark music”

Stereo Subversion – “Playing either of the album’s two monster length tracks would probably be a good way to put a downer on your party”

Allmusic – “Sunspotted finds the productive-and-then-some group on a high, with two vinyl-side-long tracks revealing the band at one of its most varied moments, tackling everything from total sonic extremity to near ambient calm.”

Heavy Winged ‘fields within fields’ released

admin — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:32:21 +0000

The Heavy Winged album ‘fields within fields’, recorded and mixed here, is out now on Three Lobed Recordings, and the reviews overwhelmingly positive. Where’s my Grammy??

Pitchfork – “Tactile sounds and thick noises shift like tectonic plates and hurtle like storm clouds.”

Roadburn: “These two new tracks find these guys pushing it about as far as it can go, ditching conventional song structure almost entirely”

Bob Parins

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:12:22 +0000

Bob Parins is the bassist for the band Vetiver. He came into the studio to work on one of his own songs, the super groovy track North Wind. He was joined by Otto Hauser, Sarah Versprille, and Dan Hindman, also members of Vetiver. Let me just say, these are some terrific players! When you put musicians of this caliber in front of the microphones, it makes an engineers job very easy. The track was produced by Rod Sherwood.

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Heavy Winged

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:22:55 +0000

The boys of Heavy Winged stopped by the studio for a few days to record some jams of epic proportions. Heavy Winged are Ryan Herbert, Brady Sansone and Jed Bindeman. Dave W. of White Hills (Thrill Jockey) also stopped by to lend some guitar magic. These recordings will be released by Three Lobed Recordings in May 2010.

Here is a very short sample from the sessions:

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The City Billies

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:53:41 +0000

The City Billies are a Brooklyn based band playing a unique blend of reggae and bluegrass. They came into the studio to record a 4 song demo. The upright bass, drums, guitar and scratch vocals were all tracked live, and banjo, violin and mandolin (played by yours truly) were added later. The vibes were great, as were the sounds – a really nice bunch of dudes. I highly recommend catching these guys play out the first chance you get.

Trouble in Babylon

Run Away

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Lonely Ghost

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:44:33 +0000

The boys of Lonely Ghost stopped by the studio to record a ’song’. They play music which sounds like Godzilla fighting a whale – in a volcano. The big live room perfectly captured their expansive sound, especially the Avant CK-40 stereo mic in the middle of it all. Below you can listen to the epic 30 minute piece in it’s entirety.

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The Flanks

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:17:51 +0000

I play in a band called the Flanks. We decided to throw up a mic during practice, the Avant CK-40, and I really like the resulting sound – very realistic and roomy. The mic was in MS mode. We didn’t pay any attention to our positions relative to the mic, if we had, i’m sure the results would have been even better.

Frying Pan

Hula Hula Boys

You can see the mic in the middle of the room, below.