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Spring 1999
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BULL HARMAN
recorded a new project for CD release called "Bull's-Eye."
On the recording were 1999  Grammy
Award winner Alison Krauss, Tammy Harman, Stacy Harman, Lori
Harman Cummins, Rhonda Vincent, Bob Black, Cecil Tinon, Rob McDonnell,
4 Sisters & A Cousin, Tina Adair, Keith Adair, Kevin Liley,
Kirk Brandenberger and of course, Bull Harman ...KATIE McMAHON,
the principal lead vocalist in Riverdance tracked seven songs
for a CD release entitled "After The Morning" on Paradigm
Records ...We remastered a JOHN PIZZARELLI TRIO recording.
John uses all seven strings on his guitar (most don't even use
six), Ray Kennedy on piano and Martin Pizzarelli on bass...STILLWATER
recorded tracks and mixed for a follow up CD to "State Line"
...DAN POTTHAST, frontman for ska kings MU 330,
recorded a solo CD scheduled for release on Asian Man Records
...BELLA WOLF finished up a few tracks including one on
a compilation by KDHX-FM 88.1 ...Also in recording for
the compilation were COUSIN CURTIS AND THE CASH REBATES
with Lindell Blackford on mandolin; Emily Buckhannon on fiddle;
Dennis Buckhannon on guitar; Forest Rose on bass; Curtis Buckhannon
on mandolin ...We remastered a CD project by Irish Harpist, KIM
ROBERTSON ...BEPPE GAMBETTA, Italian guitarist, has
recorded a brand new recording ...And Italian mandolinist CARLO
AONZO recorded a project as well but good thing Beppe was
around to help with English. Carlo had only been in the U.S.
for one week. I'll bet I couldn't speak as much Italian in a
month! ...POLARIS recorded in Dave's kitchen with the
pots and pans. It's called "Dave's Kitchen" ...HARVEST
MINISTRY came in to record their first full-length CD and
cassette project entitled "The River is Here." They
have also recorded their second project called "Acoustic
Praise" ...REGGIE VANDERSON did a hip-hop single
for video release ...RX BLUES completed a full-length
CD release entitled "Mississippi Moses" ...Undisputed
heavyweights of "biker a capella" EXPANDED SOUND
just completed a new golf-themed disc which included a real live,
pizza-and-beer-swilling, in-studio audience ...BUTCHWAX AND
THE HOLLYWOODS' recorded their second CD project, which is
available from the bandstand...SEVEN DAYS from Columbia
produced their first CD called "Eleven Hills in the Rolling
Fog." ...CORE mastered and released their EP called
"Vision of What's to Come." ...DR. WU of Effingham,
IL had us master and duplicate their first Rock & Soul Revue
EP entitled "Fingerpoppin'" ...JOHNNY MAGNET
finished their project for CD release entitled, "Still Life
With Strap On." It would be a very special gift for Mom
...ROBYNN RAGLAND recorded a tune for the show Dawson's
Creek ...DR. ZHIVEGAS produced CDs entitled "Shake
It Boom." ...The classical guitar duo of KIRK HANSER
AND JOHN McCLELLAN finished their recording and mixing and
mixing and mixing. The CD is entitled "Jongo, Music of South
America for Two Guitars." The title cut was written by Paulo
Bellinati whom we recorded a few months earlier. Power chords
through a Marshall stack anyone? ...Clarinetist LYNN ZIMMER
enlisted us to perform a live remote recording of the Grand Opening
show of the Country Club Hotel in Lake Ozark, MO. The resulting
album features "Yakety Sax" legend BOOTS RANDOLPH
...BILL LYNN formerly of Psychopath tracked solo demos
...We finished our second blues compilation for BLUE SUIT
RECORDS called "Hastings Street Grease - Volume 1."
It's a cool comp of Detroit blues musicians ...ODESSA REINHARDT
arrived in August for her yearly solo piano recording ...Full-time
software engineer VENKY hired us to do some final mixing,
mastering and CD duplication of a contemporary India-flavored
dance project in two languages. It'll make your 0s and 1s dance
...STEVE PECARO mixed some tracks recorded at his own
place ...JOHN WALL, formerly of The Jonathan House, recorded
some acoustic guitar solo demos ...REV. WILLARD MAYTUBBY
brought his gospel recordings in for mastering and duplication
...DIANNE MORAN did an Ozark Hills storytelling cassette
featuring Mark Holland of Autumn's Child on Cedar Flute. Dianne's
project "At My Grandfathers Knee" can be purchased
at the St. Louis Zoo gift shop ...GRANDPA'S GHOST completed
their album "The Kiss." Part two of the trilogy will
begin tracking soon. I guess there's a third, duh! ...Internationally-acclaimed
pianist and Steinway-honored artist ALDO MANCINELLI was
in recording classical pieces on a nine-foot Steinway rental.
Next, he's off to continue recording in Prague, then off to mix
in London. That's the life! ...ROSA STRING WORKS BAND
completed a second project, entitled "Heavenly Music."
...SIRIUS was serious about duplicating their new CD "Beautiful
Day" with us ...BILL BAY has just completed mixing
an exhaustive 2-disc set called "Mastering the Guitar 2B"
for Mel Bay Publications. They've started on the next one already,
various adjectives please! ...LEAMON BAZIL led a big group
of urban rappers and hip hoppers to our studio to lay some tracks
for an upcoming album ...MIKE KOVAC recorded smoothy big
jazz tunes with a bunch of timely sub-harmonic musician dudes
for a CD project to get distribution. ARVELL is doing
the suave artist thing ...TERRY DONLEY is continuing to
record tunes ...Former Firewalk-er NANETTE MUNIE has completed
her solo demo CD ...RON ERIKSON plays the wise writer
and executive producer for former members of The Summit restaurant's
house band for a jazz demo project ...Cartoon buddies VALLIUM
produced discs called "First We Took St. Louis." The
Arch is upside down and they are only 35 cents in Zimbabwe. We
are acting like we're not even confused at all ...MINDTRAP
has produced CDs with us. Just look for the very, very, very
subtle color greeeeeeeeen ...NU Millennium Productions' JOHNNY
O'NEAL manufactured discs on one project called "Live
From St. Louis" and is recording some new material with
Zelphia Robinson, vocals; Jeffrey Anderson, bass; Johnny O'Neal,
piano; Montez Coleman, drums (Montez played drums in the Lincoln
High School Jazz Band that we recorded nine or so years ago)
...STUBBLEFIELD has finished their new CD "Less Traveled."
It's in stores now ...JIM  MANLEY
gave us the gift that will keep on giving with his new "Christmas
Unwrapped" CD. If you have the nerve, you can listen to
it more than once. Contributing on the project were (hold your
breath): Scott Alspach, Dave Black, Charlie Boehme, John Carney,
Scott Collier, Bob Dill, Don Drewett, Daryl Ecsedy, Bill Elrod,
Dave Fowler, Mark Friedrich, The Gas House Gang, Kirk Hanser,
J. Hayes, Mark Holland, Larry Johnson, Glenn Meyer, Mark Nast,
Jack Petracek, Andy Ploof, Dan Potter, Bill Schulenburg, Kurt
Silver, Brett Stamps, Greg Trampe, Ray Vollmar and Rick Zelle.
Upon overhearing part of a cut, our Fed Ex man Ken exclaimed,
"Damn. That's really whack!" ...STYLE completed
recording and mixing a CD ...SWEET FELLOWSHIP recorded
their first CD project ...THE AMBASSADORS OF HARMONY's
giant all-male, all-a capella chorus began a new recording project
on location ...Banjo player JEFF MILLER recorded a CD
project with Jim Nelson on guitar and Rhys Jones from Chicago,
on fiddle ...JOSH ROWAN mastered with Jack and manufactured
CDs entitled "Torch" ...BOB BAILEY TRIO recorded
a demo ...Local ska up-and-comers THE KINETICS recorded
a track for a Jumpstart Records compilation ...As everyone knows,
the Pope his little 'ol self was in town, so the cathedral choirs
got together and sang for him. PETE DERENSKI of Woodgate
Productions recorded them live at the Cathederal Basilica of
St. Louis. JOHN ROMERI had us produce the CD project in
half a flash ...Vocalist NATALIE DELUCIA recorded some
new demos ...ONE FELL SWOOP recorded some new tunes with
new bassist Mike Tiefenbrun ...ANDY GLOVER produced a
project called "On The Bandstand!" featuring The Town
Square Cornet Band ...PIECES OF 8 with Jackie Mollet engineering,
mixed some tracks for a video project ...SCOTT GOODMAN
is tracking a solo acoustic album ...THE COLGATE RESOLUTIONS
vocalized CDs called "All Kidding Aside." ...PAM
HOLLIDAY recorded and manufactured a cassette project with
Dan Rhoten doing the arrangement thing...Mark Cahn with THE
METRO DANCE BAND booked time for another gig demo in January
to try to make the newsletter once again ...Guitarist and songwriter
DON HALL restored old tapes and did overdubs on his solo
demos ...THE GAS HOUSE GANG is continuing to record a
Christmas and beyond project. The last recording took 2.4 years.
When will they be finished do you think? At one year, we'll have
to say later, they'll have to say sooner. We might know by the
next newsletter ...We manufactured CDs for the MARCELINE JAZZ
BAND called "Side Show." ...SID SIDNEY did
a CD single project including the massive hit song entitled "Do
The Computer" (Boot 'em up, boot 'em up) ...THE VICTORIA
COMPANY produced another project entitled "Holiday Greetings"
for HERB DRURY AND JERRY CHERRY ...We produced a CD project
for NCCV of California entitled "Gozando LaVida."
Thanks to the group VERITAS IN CANTICO who have just completed
their second project ...JIM WHETZEL recorded a demo of
Mountain Dulcimer tunes |
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CALLAHAN, organist premier, is performing on another live
Pete Derenski-recorded project for the Wicks Organ Company ...Upstart
country rockers ASHTRAY recorded an EP "Jessie"
and are back putting their second project together ...LONGSHOT
mastered their home-brewed recording for CD "More Trees
Than Traffic." ...BLUE MUSE mastered ...DENISE
THIMES had us master a live recording of swingin' jazz for
a CD release entitled "Singapore Nights." ...ST.
MARGARET OF SCOTLAND CHOIR began recording another project |
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If a millennium is a unit of 1000 years,
and that's not the year 2000 like some people think, wouldn't
you be 20 years old on your 21st birthday?
If you booked 15 hours of studio time
wouldn't you only have to pay for 14 hours?
I'm really confused...
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...From
Brazil, one of the premier classical guitarists, PAULO BELLINATI,
recorded a live in-the-studio project ...We remixed, mastered
and manufactured DAVE VENN's CD "One, Two, Three"
with Steve Schenkel and Jay Hungerford ...ADAM DELMONTE
guitarist extremo from California recorded a video project live
...RICH SIMMONS recorded some new demo material ...PENNSYLVANIA
SLIM finished recording and released a CD, "59 Cadillac."
...THE CHIA BAND with George Geschwend, clarinet; Don
Cole, trumpet; Bill Ulkus, trombone; Bill Wolters, drums; Tom
Gann, guitar; Brian Keck, bass, were also in recording for the
KDHX-FM compilation ...JAZZWORLD produced a CD project
called "Sampler Volume One" a really great idea. It's
a compilation of individual jazz groups that have product left
over in the back of their bedroom closets and basements. They
finally got tired of tripping over all the boxes. Each group
includes one sample song to make it easy for the prospective
buyer to make their decision ...SAVANNAH FLOOR completed
mixing and mastering of their new CD "Lucy." ...THE
MUNY TEENS recorded and mixed some new soundtracks for this
season  ...JERKWATER
JUNCTION recorded stuff...STEVE ROBINSON AND FRIENDS recorded
a jazz project and produced a CD called "Leanne's Dance."
Along for the ride were: Charlie Glenn, vocals; Jayme Barnard,
tenor sax; Eddie Plitt, keyboards; Art Ruprecht, guitar; Keith
Turner, keyboards; Gus Buehner, bass; Joe Weber, drums and last
but not least (since he's paying cash money to the hired guys)
Steve Robinson, trumpet/fluegel ...VIRGIL FRANKLIN came
in to record a Christian rap album ...Music director STEPHEN
MAGER had us dupe CDs of his classic works "Joy For
Every Age." ...The Washington University MOSAIC WHISPERS
released their CD "Don't Tell My Parents." Also from
the learning gates, THE AMATEURS, THE GREENLEAFS
and THE PIKERS have also been recording new albums ...While
we're doing .edu, writer, arranger, etc. Neal Frederiksen had
us master two live CD projects for THE URSULINE ACADEMY CHORUS
AND MADRIGAL SINGERS...13 AFTER brought a 16-track
project to us for mixdown and mastering ...Dave Black's BRILLIANT
CORNERS made it in for the KDHX compilation ...STEPHEN
SCORFINA did CDs with us entitled "Polychrome Love Songs."...BIBOWATS
came in and mixed ...ALAN NEMES recorded publishing demos
...And oh yeah, THE BOTTLE ROCKETS were in with New York
producer ERIC "ROSCOE" AMBEL to do some pre-production
work on their new album. For anyone we may have missed or for
misguided information we did it on purpose, sorry. |
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