What a week this has been. I must have been on about 5 sessions and all of them great fun.
Firstly started the week of with Outhouse, finishing off the mixes for the Outhouse Ruhabi album that Dave Smith & Robin Finker have been putting together. Then on the same day a mad dash over to the World Circuit offices to see Tony Allen as it was the release of the album, Secret Agent.
Then recording with Polar Bear, finishing off the next album. Seb brought in a load of mics that he'd been buying off eBay, one of which was this RCA commentator's mic which we stuck up in the room on top of one of the acoustic screens and it sounded awesome. The downside being, that I completely forgot to record the thing for most of the tracks so it's only on two of them. Seb being the gentleman that he is, was very nice about it however (thanks Seb).
Then I've been mixing the Zascha Moktan album with Tommy D at his place, now he's got his lovely new Matrix console (there'a an interview with him in Resolution Mag last month I think) which was good fun as usual. Good food, good wine, good company and some being silly with his two daughters to make it all the easier... And from the sublime to the ridiculous (ridiculously good) after mixing Pop in the morning, I got to PINNA about 4pm Thursday to start a session with Seb Rochford, Pamelia Kursten and multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily, to record some random jamming. Awesome. I bought myself an SLR camera the same day which I christened on this session so you can have a look at some of the pics on my flickr stream:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sonnyengineer/
To finish the week off, Tony Allen was Launching Ornette Coleman's Meltdown Festival at the Southbank Centre on the Friday, as well as launching the new album, which is getting rave reviews. The gig was blinding. To say the man is in his mid 60's he can play better than anyone. Still amazes me. So all in all not a bad week really. To see us out, Kev and I will be having a spot of luncheon down by the Southbank before engaging in some light entertainment of the Acoustic Ladyland variety. Splendid.
Here's a bit of what I've been up to:
Firstly started the week of with Outhouse, finishing off the mixes for the Outhouse Ruhabi album that Dave Smith & Robin Finker have been putting together. Then on the same day a mad dash over to the World Circuit offices to see Tony Allen as it was the release of the album, Secret Agent.
Then recording with Polar Bear, finishing off the next album. Seb brought in a load of mics that he'd been buying off eBay, one of which was this RCA commentator's mic which we stuck up in the room on top of one of the acoustic screens and it sounded awesome. The downside being, that I completely forgot to record the thing for most of the tracks so it's only on two of them. Seb being the gentleman that he is, was very nice about it however (thanks Seb).
Then I've been mixing the Zascha Moktan album with Tommy D at his place, now he's got his lovely new Matrix console (there'a an interview with him in Resolution Mag last month I think) which was good fun as usual. Good food, good wine, good company and some being silly with his two daughters to make it all the easier... And from the sublime to the ridiculous (ridiculously good) after mixing Pop in the morning, I got to PINNA about 4pm Thursday to start a session with Seb Rochford, Pamelia Kursten and multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily, to record some random jamming. Awesome. I bought myself an SLR camera the same day which I christened on this session so you can have a look at some of the pics on my flickr stream:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sonnyengineer/
To finish the week off, Tony Allen was Launching Ornette Coleman's Meltdown Festival at the Southbank Centre on the Friday, as well as launching the new album, which is getting rave reviews. The gig was blinding. To say the man is in his mid 60's he can play better than anyone. Still amazes me. So all in all not a bad week really. To see us out, Kev and I will be having a spot of luncheon down by the Southbank before engaging in some light entertainment of the Acoustic Ladyland variety. Splendid.
Here's a bit of what I've been up to:
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