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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
