Category: Extended Discography

Recording Mixing & Mastering 6 tracks, 54 minutes. The poetry of jazz and the jazz of poetry. Penny Rimbaud’s How? by Crass Agenda, recorded live and unrehearsed at the Vortex, is a big slab of hardcore “beat cafe” experience, a long poem in response to Allen Ginsberg’s famous Howl.

Mastering “Tom Rainey has been a fixture in New York’s Downtown scene since the early ’90s. The stalwart drummer’s current efforts have found him expanding his purview, collaborating with a new generation of creative improvisers. Working on original material with young Brooklyn-based artists like Ingrid Laubrock and Mary Halvorson, Rainey continues experiments in form and […]

Mastering Tom Rainey’s trio with Ingrid Laubrock and Mary Halvorson is very much an integrated ensemble. Laubrock is a saxophonist of unusual textural sensitivity and intellectual savvy, who can summon up proper deposits of abandon, knowing restraint and sly references to jazz’ past in the midst of her purely improvisational explorations. Halvorson, one of the […]

Mastering          **Mercury Prize Nomination** “Portico Quartet are currently le dernier cri in London—awards nominations, MTV sync deals and top-end TV and radio sessions are being thrown their way like confetti. Knee Deep In The North Sea is the quartet’s debut album and it proves to be great stuff, deserving of much of the media cavalcade.” Chris […]

Recording Mixing & Mastering Fronted by the legendary John Lydon, these strictly limited edition live albums were recorded at the PiL’s shows in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester & London in December 2009

Mixing & Mastering The great singer Paul Rodgers (ex Free) recorded live in London.

  Mastering The concept behind Martin Taylor’s first solo recording in four years was to get back to basics and create a more rootsy record.Recorded over 24 hours, Taylor sat down in his home studio to record what is perhaps his most personal record to date

Producer & Engineer (Recording, Mixing & Mastering) “Young singer Vimala Rowe took the role of Billie Holiday in Alex Webb’s music-theatre show Cafe Society Swing, but though flawless tributes to the great jazz vocalists are a speciality of hers, she is also an award-winning original composer, a sometime rap artist, and a world musician trained in Hindustani classical techniques. […]

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Mastering Of all the richly multifarious projects encompassed by Kathryn Tickell’s nearly 30-year career to date – including collaborations with Sting, The Chieftains, Penguin Café Orchestra, Evelyn Glennie and Andy Sheppard – Northumbrian Voices is perhaps the one she was born to create. Interweaving songs, tunes and spoken-word narrative, performed by a six-strong cast spanning three generations, it leads […]