Studio News May 29

The Wheel keeps on turning

Yesterday I saw one of my long time clients, Dave Wheeler. Dave started back with me over 10 years ago, when I was located in Encino. Ah, those were the days. Using ADATs and having limited equipment. At that point Dave was writing songs and having other people sing them. People such as studio legend, Windy Wagner (who is now doing music for the show, Glee). Flash forward to 2010 and Dave has now completed 6 songs for his debut CD featuring himself as the lead vocalist! I’m so happy to see him tearing it up on the mic. He sounds truly amazing! The songs have a modern rock flare with a tip of the hat to Daltry and Maroon 5. I’m producing and doing all the music tracks and Dave is singing most of the vocals (I’m doing a little backup here or there).

7 CDs (so far)

In other news, another long time client of over 10 years, Golana is going into mastering next week after us completing mixes on his 7th CD at DBW! Golana is a native american flutist and is signed to Spring Hill Records. This CD is a compilation of old hymns done as only Golana could do them. The CD features myself on song arrangements, guitar and keyboards. It also features grammy award winning violinist, Charlie Bisharat and the awesome cello playing of Cameron Stone. Look for it out and available by the fall of 2010.

Chris Blake is wrapping up his 3rd project at DBW. It’s another EP. So far he’s done one CD and one other EP. Chris is exceptional and has a very modern sound and very cool voice.

New Clients!

This week I wrapped up a 3 song ep for my new client Glen Guldbeck. Glen came in for 3 hours and layed down the foundation to 3 songs (guitar and vocal) and did my thing by filling in the blanks with drums, bass, guitars, keyboards and backing vocals. They turned out great and Glen is thrilled. I also completed a single release for yet another new client, Henry Valle. It’s a spanish song just in time for father’s day entitled “Donde Estas Papa?”. Henry played guitar and sang and I played additional flurishy nylon guitar, bass, keyboards and directed Henry on his harmonies. I’m excited to be working with both these guys and hope that both of them continue to record and put out some great stuff.

Studio News May 12

Studio legend, Charlie Brown is Back!

Studio guitar wiz and legend, Charlie Brown, has been back in the studio. He did a CD with Katherin King Segal a few years ago here but is now recording solo (with my help ;-) and compiling a bunch of Karaoke tracks for live performance purposes. I think we have 12 songs down and will crank out a few more next week. Charlie will be making his debut as as solo performer May 22 at Casa De Carlos in Woodland Hills. I’m also mixing a few new tracks for Paul McCallum’s jazz project. Paul is an awesome guitarist and, as a bonus, has some beautiful guitars. Paul just won 1rst place at the Topanga Banjo and Fiddle constest in the advanced mandolin category. Dave Wheeler, who’ve I’ve been working with for over 10 years, is finishing some great modern rock tracks ala. Chris Daltry style. Dave sounds simply amazing and his song writing is better than ever! I’d also like to welcome another new client (the 2nd one this month!), Israel Valle who hales from the Long Beach area. Israel has a great voice and does some really great latin guitar/vocal stuff. I’ll be doing my thing with adding some additional production work on guitar and other instruments. I look forward to doing many songs with Israel.

Welcome Glen Guldbeck

Glen Guldbeck is awesome!

Yesterday was a great day. I started working with a great new client, Glen Guldbeck, on an original project. Glen actually was only planning on doing a short cover song CD for the purposes of getting gigs, but, after recording his first song (which was an original) and hearing me “do my thing” he was inspired to lay 2 other originals down. I’m now going to do a little production work on these gems. Glen is a great guitar player and has an amazing voice. I an truly honored to work with him. Watch the video to see Glen in action.

New CDs!

I’m proud to announce 2 new CDs out this month. The first is Laura Browne Sorenson’s debut CD. Laura is a member of “the Browne Sisters & George Cavanaugh” (that I’ve also produced), and is a very very talented singer/songwriter. She got a song placed on the show “Army Wives” last year. In fact, it was the very first song we recorded together. Now you can get that song plus many other’s on “Marilyn Drive”, available on Amazon.com.

The 2nd CD is jazz group, “The Paul Weitz Trio” with Paul Weitz (guitar), Matt Duffy(drums) and Matt Van Benschoten(upright electric bass). Paul has been playing around for ages but this is his first “real” CD! He’s also currently working on a new CD due out by Christmas of 2010 with vocalist Rachel Sorsa Khoury. You can get Paul’s CD at CD Baby now.

New Web Site

Well, I’ve been frantically working the past couple of weeks on designing a new website. It’s not done yet but is coming together nicely so I decided to “go live” while I finish things up. I hope you find it clean and easy to navigate and find some good information here. I’ve included a FAQ page to help you with your common questions and concerns. I’ve also greatly updated the Media section with some new videos and tons of new pictures. I plan on being way more active with keeping that section updated. Especially with video footage of actual sessions. That’s always difficult as I’m usually “working” so can’t walk around filming people every 5 minutes (but, I’ll try)! Finally, the blog page is brand new. Here is where you’ll find out who’s recording, what new cds are coming out and any other cool info I can think of! Enjoy.