Producing

I am on a roll mixing the Swedish sessions. I love this process of studying a recording ten trillion times. Looking for snippets, sections, moments to embellish, to embrace or […]

The girls came back for more. They sang on Airplane on the Highway and We got Time. Swedish Karl suggested the record be old and new songs and so it […]

I added a string part to one of the songs in the new recording. Thought it was subtle, tasteful, the kind of thing that would make people think how interesting. […]

At the open stage they returned two young women, twin comets in mismatched orbits. Both new to the ritual, both possessed of voices that didn’t merely sing but insisted upon […]

Last June or maybe July, Doug McClement, generous as always, offered to record me at the Harris Institute. Two grand pianos to choose from – both gleaming, both waiting for […]

The second day in Stockholm studio had a new cast of characters. Two guys playing upright bass – two upright basses. Is that not nuts? A saxophone, English horn, Trumpet, […]

Nice to meet all these Swedes in studio and one had a super interesting creation that I took to be a Hurdy Gurdy but it was a Key Fiddle or […]

Going over the Hugh’s room recording. I like Jen’s idea to include the DVD with the sale of a t-shirt. I give up. What does Manfred Eicher know about recording […]

I’m working on a version of Satisfied Mind. Sam Larkin used to play it at Fat Alberts long ago. Recently I was listening to Lucinda William’s version which led me […]