Rocky in the studio ...cont.
This blogging thing has turned out to be a bit more difficult than I anticipated. Please accept my apologies for the lack of communication.
An Internet connection strong enough to upload files and create a decent blog, while traveling, has been elusive but we’ll do the best we can :)
Anyway….back to the recording of the Secret Symphony CD at Imaginary Road Recording studio in Vermont....
The entire process was probably in the top two of all the musical recording experiences of which I have ever been a part. The other being my first recording session as the keyboardist (at 15 years old) for a recording by a singer/songwriter named Danny Birmingham in Memphis Tennesee in 1974.
Those music sessions were at the legendary Memphis Sound Studios under the guiding hand of equally legendary engineer and producer Roland Janes. That experience, especially at that age, was awesome!
Now, some three decades plus later….I find my music in the hands of Grammy Award winning guitarist and producer (and founder of the Windham Hill Record Label) Will Ackerman. http://www.williamackerman.com/ and subject to the genius of Grammy winning engineer, Corin Nelson http://www.corinnelson.com/ and could not be happier about what I believe will be, by far, the best record I’ve ever made. Period.
Will, Corin and the amazing team of musicians that work closely with them rank among the finest musicians which with I have ever had the pleasure of playing. And, as many of you know, I have had the honor of playing with many great players both live and in the recording studio.
The other recording artists on the CD are an impressive lot themselves and hold many awards and honors between them. Working with them was a pleasure and honor I will never forget.
They all, each and every one, opened their musical hearts to me and embraced, respected and interpreted my work in ways that honored me, the music, the other musicians on the CD and all who will eventually listen to the finished work. Alist of them and their web sites is in the blog entitled "Bogie Comes to Vermont"
It is this respect and honor I will most remember (not counting the Texas Slider burgers) and for which I am most grateful. You will see what I mean when you hear the amazing nuance and expression they all brought to the project. And….Will Ackerman..? There are those that hear and those that listen. Will listens.
So that is how the last eighteen months of traveling back and forth to Vermont and recording of all the other players the entire month of May has gone. We were blessed.
It was kind of a let down, a sort of crashing, that happened for a few hours as we were finishing recording the last tracks. We were almost done!!
The excitement of watching and listening to the music of Eugene Freison’s Cello work or standing there with my jaw on the ground as Will Ackerman coaxed some of the most beautiful flugal horn lines possible from the 2008 N.A.R. Album of the Year Award winner, Jeff Oster…was over.
I was sad and a little depressed actually. But then……BOGIE CAME TO VERMONT!!!
Thanks for keeping up!
Thoughts are things. Think good ones.
Rocky
An Internet connection strong enough to upload files and create a decent blog, while traveling, has been elusive but we’ll do the best we can :)
Anyway….back to the recording of the Secret Symphony CD at Imaginary Road Recording studio in Vermont....
The entire process was probably in the top two of all the musical recording experiences of which I have ever been a part. The other being my first recording session as the keyboardist (at 15 years old) for a recording by a singer/songwriter named Danny Birmingham in Memphis Tennesee in 1974.
Those music sessions were at the legendary Memphis Sound Studios under the guiding hand of equally legendary engineer and producer Roland Janes. That experience, especially at that age, was awesome!
Now, some three decades plus later….I find my music in the hands of Grammy Award winning guitarist and producer (and founder of the Windham Hill Record Label) Will Ackerman. http://www.williamackerman.com/ and subject to the genius of Grammy winning engineer, Corin Nelson http://www.corinnelson.com/ and could not be happier about what I believe will be, by far, the best record I’ve ever made. Period.
Will, Corin and the amazing team of musicians that work closely with them rank among the finest musicians which with I have ever had the pleasure of playing. And, as many of you know, I have had the honor of playing with many great players both live and in the recording studio.
The other recording artists on the CD are an impressive lot themselves and hold many awards and honors between them. Working with them was a pleasure and honor I will never forget.
They all, each and every one, opened their musical hearts to me and embraced, respected and interpreted my work in ways that honored me, the music, the other musicians on the CD and all who will eventually listen to the finished work. Alist of them and their web sites is in the blog entitled "Bogie Comes to Vermont"
It is this respect and honor I will most remember (not counting the Texas Slider burgers) and for which I am most grateful. You will see what I mean when you hear the amazing nuance and expression they all brought to the project. And….Will Ackerman..? There are those that hear and those that listen. Will listens.
So that is how the last eighteen months of traveling back and forth to Vermont and recording of all the other players the entire month of May has gone. We were blessed.
It was kind of a let down, a sort of crashing, that happened for a few hours as we were finishing recording the last tracks. We were almost done!!
The excitement of watching and listening to the music of Eugene Freison’s Cello work or standing there with my jaw on the ground as Will Ackerman coaxed some of the most beautiful flugal horn lines possible from the 2008 N.A.R. Album of the Year Award winner, Jeff Oster…was over.
I was sad and a little depressed actually. But then……BOGIE CAME TO VERMONT!!!
Thanks for keeping up!
Thoughts are things. Think good ones.
Rocky
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