unTapped & JouRNeY @ ContaCt ready to rumble
untapped installation is all set up and hopefully with endure the month duration of its airing. There are 2 tracks on a loop (about as technical as i could get at this time). Track 1 is ambient extracts from my journey through the un-public realms of Professor Alan...
suitcases and lampshades – funk with junk
the latest guest on me ever expanding album is a man who plays funky grooves with stuff - anything but a drumkit - and then gives it the PSP vintage warmer treatment to squelch it up. perfekt for a track i was fantasising about having a junk drum kit on. happened...
an olive tree needs remix by The Black Paths
a new remix has come through of the moody and brooding opening track of the last EP that u might be interested to listen to. By fellow manc-based The Black Paths, he's really got in there and messed with my voice which makes a welcome mashup. Thanks emanating to...
half full already? and hypnotic gothic belly dancer
wow had a pleasing realisation - my latest spell of horizontal incarceration has led to me nearly completing the mixing of 3-5 trax of the album! Plan it (expanding Jupiter visit) has been greatly enriched by Andy Hodson live drummer-ing - some lovely freeform storm...
Contact Theatre exhibitations OCt/NoV
A couple of nice outcomes of the AIR residency foraging for found sounds in the Contact Theatre building earlier this year. Contact celebrates 10 years of the new building by Alan Short this coming season: Contact Theatre site Thurs 1 October to Mon 2 November -...
treasure trove of interesting and useful ideas
all the eternal questions of what to do, how to do it and other question word quandries are well covered by CD baby honcho Derek Sivers. i find his blog useful, inspiring and realistic for an independent one doing most of it yerself. here's the link: Derek Sivers Blog
oh to have talented and generous friends
Storming ahead with album construction, it was the turn of the shipwreck being hulked to the surface and dragged to the sunny harboured yard for restoration track. The beats are mainly courtesy of the Contact residency collected samples. Bassline from the ole Korg and...
gracieland gratitude
bit of mutual appreciation here...am indulging in lovely top spec Lisa Stansfield's studio in Rochdale for some of the recording for new album. Very excited about next step with the big big diaphragm valve neumann to stick my voice through. And they sending out such...
Studio diaries – MaMMoth MouNTain stRIng sESsioN, July 09
Right, Steve Boyce-Buckley composed some delightful string arrangements, only heard on a keyboard til today. When we are in Lisa Stansfield’s Gracieland Studios in Rochdale to record said strings parts played by reputable quartet “Mancky strings”. SORRY Steve's voice...
ReCorDing the BeLLs for ElBow/Halle
o the life throws nice random opportunities at me. Was asked by Tube UK who are doing most of the sound for Manchester International Festival if I could step in as recordist with fellow engineer Anita McCarthy to clamber up the Town Hall on a Sunday to capture the...