As you may know if you’ve read my blog before, I recently adopted a baby boy from Vietnam. Of course as a music producer, the first music he heard had to be something I had composed, and appropriately I had some music created just for infants for a video project I was involved in that […]
In the howling wind, sleet and cold, Bahiyyih and I braved the elements to work in a very cold studio during a relentless winter in 2008 and 2009 to record her album ‘Take Me Home’. Take Me Home is a spiritually inspired collection of songs to sooth and uplift the soul, taking us back to
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As i mentioned in my last blog, I’m moving to Beijing China, and setting up a fantastic, world class studio there. It will be called Pro Soul Studios Beijing, in affiliation with my record label, Pro Soul Alliance. It’s large a 3 room facility, professionally built by foreign expertise flown into the country along with
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Last year, i had the pleasure of working on quite an incredible Chinese project with the renowned Beijing artist Jin R (pronounced Jing R). It has recently been released in China, it’s called ‘T. Journey’ Jin R is a known world class Chinese chef, restaurant owner, and sublime improvisational Yang Qin performer and artist. Best
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Over the last few years, I’ve been extremely busy with many productions in various genres with different artists. Most of them haven’t been released and are just starting to get out this year, so you’ll see a lot more postings about them here! I’m excited to share with you my latest production. it’s a song
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Over the last year I’ve been working on some very exciting new music with Elika Mahony that I have co-written, produced and engineered. I’ve always felt the music Elika has done in the past has not shown all of her musical potential and talent, it only represented one aspect of her musical influences and interests.
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A Chinese CD, ‘Meditations of the Spirit’, which I collaborated on with Elika Mahony, and produced and engineered has just been released and sold out in less than a month! All the songs are in Chinese with a few bilingual songs. The lyrics are from the profound and highly spiritual Baha’i writings, and some compositions
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That’s right, after 3 great years, I’m moving my studio to my home next week. I had planned to blog about it much earlier, but then we were suddenly told to drop everything and go to Vietnam to adopt a baby (An update on that & what has happened in my next blog…). Because I
An important part of my role as a music producer is to get the best possible performance from artists in the studio both technically and emotionally. I find I often fall short in this area though because unless they are professionals who have done large live performances for many years, most vocalists are often unable
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I’ve had no problem getting work as a music producer, even in a recession. I’m working on 6 albums and keep getting calls for more, but then I’m cheap as far as many music producers go with my experience. Most of my clients hire me because I also compose and engineer in my own studio,
Is professionally produced music important anymore? Read More »