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Indian Summers

Feb

5

2016

A chilly October morning at Smecky Studios in Prague was the start of the recording sessions for Channel 4’s sizzling period drama Indian Summers, starring Julie Walters and Henry Lloyd-Hughes. Olga and fellow AIR engineer Nick Wollage between them recorded and mixed Stephen Warbeck’s score for 10 hour-long episodes, featuring orchestras recorded in the UK ...

Ghost Stories wins Broadcast Award

Feb

24

2015

Coldplay’s Ghost Stories won the award for Best Music Programme at the Broadcast Awards held at the Grosvenor Hotel earlier this month. The judges were impressed with the “scale and ambition of SkyArts exclusive recording of Coldplay performing their latest Album, Ghost Stories”. Olga was involved in this project from start to finish – from ...

Olga Nominated for MPG Award

Nov

15

2014

Last Friday I found out I had been nominated in the “Breakthrough Engineer of the Year” category of the Music Producers Guild (MPG) Awards 2015. It’s a real honour to make the shortlist, and good to see so many friends and colleagues also nominated in many different categories. Fingers crossed for the final results in ...

Remote Mixing & Preproduction Studio

Oct

23

2014

For sessions on a budget, it is possible to do remote mixing or preproduction & editing at Olga’s private studio in South London. The studio is equipped with: Pro Tools HDX UAD-2 Octo DSP Card Dynaudio monitors A huge selection of plugins by Audioease, Fabfilter, Soundtoys, Waves and UAD. A super fast internet connection makes ...

Invictus Games Anthem

Sep

15

2014

I have been lucky enough to work on a very special project with Coldplay’s Chris Martin and composer/arranger, John Metcalfe. Chris composed the official Anthem, based on a poem by Ernest William Henley, for the Invictus Games. An international sporting event for sick and injured service-people, the Invictus Games is held at Queen Elizabeth Olympic ...

The Story of The Jews

Sep

1

2013

The first of Simon Schama’s 5-part series airs tonight on BBC2. I recorded and mixed composer Avshalom Caspi’s evocative score back in February, featuring world music stars Clara Sanabras and Samy Bishai. Here are some pictures from the recording session in Lyndhurst Hall.

Yamits Album Mastering

May

6

2013

In April I finished co-production on an album for singer-songwriter Yamit Mamo, recorded over the past 3 years at AIR Studios and Strongroom, and mixed at AIR and at my home studio in South London. 11 tracks of soul, funk and dub are being mastered as we speak by Matt Colton of Alchemy Mastering.Mamo will ...

Gruesome Playground Injuries

Jan

22

2013

In January I mixed Isobel Waller-Bridge’s score for Rajiv Joseph’s play, Gruesome Playground Injuries. Ranging from 50’s style prom music to ambient, dreamy soundscapes the music was mixed at my home studio, before we took it to the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill, where I consulted on the acoustics and sound setup for the bespoke ...

Recording in Ethiopa

Dec

1

2012

Listen to Enamarilen by Yegna. In November I was asked to work on an album by Ethiopian musicians that was being released to support a multimedia campaign by DFID and the Nike Foundation. We spent two weeks working with producer Abegasu Shiota, recording backing-tracks with Addis’ finest musicians, and, as it turns out, they were ...