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Year: 2008 (Page 1 of 3)

Recording the Pretenders and Amos Lee

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Flying Kitchen recorded KFOG’s Concert for Kid’s at the Paramount Theater in Oakland.

The Pretenders and Amos Lee performed this year and it was a really great show.

I was pleasantly surprised when I ran into my old friend Michael Bellar, who plays keyboards for Amos Lee. I had walked on stage to check a mic connection and saw a familiar face sitting at the keys.

Amos Lee is a really great songwriter in the tradition of Bob Dylan and Paul Simon. If he’s ever in your town, check out his show… He’s got a great keyboard player too.

The Pretenders still rock after 30 years, too.

Super Adventure Club at the Hotel Utah in SF – Dec 12

Super Adventure Club performs Friday, Dec 12 at the Hotel Utah with Belligerator (for their CD release party) and the History Lesson (a minutemen tribute band)

This will be our last show of the year, and our second to last before we head off on our first European Tour. It will also mark the day we finish mixing the record. So please come out and celebrate the many milestones of the twelfth day of the twelfth month. We go on in the middle and the show starts at 9. Check out www.hotelutah.com for more show info.

KFOG Live from the Archives 15 released

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KFOG’s Live from the Archives Vol 15 came out last week featuring 4 songs that I recorded and mixed with my partner, Boone Spooner

Tracks we worked on

David Gray – You’re the World to Me from Oakland Paramount Theater

Feist – 1 2 3 4 From Bimbo’s 365 in San Francisco

Newton Faulkner  – Dream Catch Me from Slim’s in San Francisco

Matt Nathanson – Car Crash at The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco

I’d have to say the Feist show was my favorite of the 4.. but Matt Nathanson comes in a close second. They’re also the friendliest folks of the bunch. Anyway, proceeds from the album benefit Bay Area food banks, so click here and get yourself a copy

Recording and Mixing Jason Mraz

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Flying Kitchen recorded Jason Mraz at the Greek Theater in Berkeley with the help of our good friend and mastering engineer, Michael Romanowski. We recorded the show for KFOG, so a song or two should appear on Live from the Archives in the coming months.

Lots of screaming and adoring fans, a kick ass horn section and an opening song that felt very much like something Wayne Newton might sing. A recipe for rock if ever there was one, I believe.

Final Mix for “Without” at Skywalker Sound

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Last month, I had the great fortune to work up at Skywalker Sound for the final film mix of “Without” a short film directed by Greg Tuzin and Brent Bishop. I recorded and mixed the score with Kronos Quartet at Broken Radio in September.

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Skywalker is an amazing place to work. It really is like an technical geek person’s version of professional paradise. I’ve been up there numerous times but this was a long set of sessions and it was really intense and relaxing all at once. It was also great working with Mike Axinn and Pete Horner, both of whom have an extensive list of credits in the film business and were a joy to work with.

The film was submitted to Sundance and will hopefully be shown in this year’s festival. Good luck to Brent and Greg!

Mix Magazine and Universal Audio Webzine Articles

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I got married at the end of September and returned from the honeymoon to multitudes of press clippings about me and my work…
OK, it’s only two, but that’s twice as many as I had a few weeks ago…

First off, Mix Magazine, one of the biggest and shiniest of all the recording magazines in the world featured 1340 Mission (home to my studio and Broken Radio, where I do most of my production) in this month’s studio spotlight column.

http://mixonline.com/studios/profiles/sf-spotlight-mission-street/index.html

I also appeared in this month’s Universal Audio Webzine, discussing some of the UA mic preamps I used on theq Kronos Quartet recording from last month.

http://www.uaudio.com/webzine/2008/october/universe.html

Skywalker is an amazing place to work. It really is like an technical geek person’s version of professional paradise. I’ve been up there numerous times but this was a long set of sessions and it was really intense and relaxing all at once. It was also great working with Mike Axinn and Pete Horner, both of whom have an extensive list of credits in the film business and were a joy to work with.

The film was submitted to Sundance and will hopefully be shown in this year’s festival. Good luck to Brent and Greg

Recording Kronos Quartet film score at Broken Radio

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Last week, Kronos Quartet came into Broken Radio to record Paola Prestini’s film score to “Without”, a short film directed by young San Francisco filmmakers Brent Bishop and Greg Tuzin.

We spent the better part of Labor Day weekend working on it and the film has been submitted to Sundance Film Festival on monday. The music was beautifully orchestrate and performed. It was amazing to work with a group of super talented and focused people for a solid week.

Universal Audio Video Feature Cannons and Clouds, Michael Winger, Matt Boudreau and Broken Radio.

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A few weeks ago Universal Audio debuted their impressive new UAD-2 processing card and when they asked me to help them find a band to help demonstrate its power, I suggested Cannons and Clouds whom I’ve been producing over the last year and a half.. Matt Boudreau, who runs the downstairs big room at Broken Radio, engineered while I produced the track. You can see videos of the whole process at http://www.uaudio.com/media/videos.html

I could’n’t get the sharing links to work, so scroll down to the Tracking, Mixing and Mastering videos to see Matt, me and mastering engineer, Michael Romanowski talk about the card and the project. Matt also talks about it all in the artist interview.

I’ve been a big fan of Universal Audio ever since I started working as a producer. The first mic preamp I ever bought was their 2610 tube preamp which I used to record Four Year Bender, Beth Waters and Tim Bluhm. The new card is pretty amazing and I can’t wait to upgrade my computer to start working and playing with it.

West Coast Songwriter Conference Panel

I will be a panelist at the West Coast Songwriters conference on Sept 12 at Foothills College in Los Altos Hills, CA.

I’ll be speaking on the “New Directions in the Music Industry” panel with Derek Sivers (founder of CD Baby), Morty Wiggins (Formerly of Bill Graham Presents among other things), Jocelyn Kane (head of SF entertainment commission and Motogirl Productions) and Michael Aczon (SF entertainment attorney)

Judging by the lineup, it should be a really interesting panel and the conference features lots of great songwriters and workshops to get feedback on songs from publishers and licensing folks. Worth checking out at www.westcoastsongwriters.org

Cannons and Clouds Video

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We shot this video at Broken Radio last week with Cannons and Clouds as part of a documentary for Universal Audio. The band is performing this monday night at the Elbo Room in San Francisco with Super Adventure Club and Weather Pending.

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