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Grant Haua has been in the live room laying down 10 searing acoustic
blues tracks. We were treated to a bit of mouth harp by Mike Baker
too, guesting on a couple of tracks. Early listens in the Testing
Lounge (where I watch telly in the house) are sounding great - it's
just like having Grant perform in your living room!
14-07-10
The Colour Field Recording Studio finishes the second release for
Fragile Colours Music, Elizabeth Robinson's 'Light My Heart', an
album that is going to listened to here for a long time to come.
All in all nine tracks have been recorded, the album goes by the
name of one of the tracks, 'Light My Heart'. If early responses
from friends and interested musicians are anything to go by, this
is going to be one to watch. Songwriter for most of the tracks is
Welshman, Jeff Murphy, a gifted songwriter and screen writer (he's
got a number of movies on the go). Jeff originally came to the studio
do record of couple of his tracks for himself, but after hearing
Elizabeth singing on a couple of tracks she'd recorded for a christmas
present to friends, he called her up to come and try some the songs
on. The rest, as they say, is history. Once we'd recorded 'Price
to Pay' and 'Hope', it was obvious that we were onto something special,
so Fragile Colours Music have signed Elizabeth and we are looking
forward to delivering more quality music in the near future - watch
this space!!!
06
and 07 2010 - couple of mastering jobs in the studio - it was nice
to have The B Side Band back in to master their latest release,
recording out at The Boatshed. It's a good fun record with dose
rockabilly thrown in for good measure. It's also been my pleasure
to be mastering Jan Preston's new album of Boogie Woogie piano -
hat's off to Derek Jacombs who has delivered a great mix and made
life much easier for me - this is a great album featuring Jan's
piano and a bunch of local Tauranga musicians.
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2009
we had the pleasure of recording June Armstrongs debut release,
'He's My Angel', this is a country and western release for a love
lady who took up singing after she'd retired - also my first C&W
album. This turned out great and was a good record to work on. Lots
of local talent again - Mike Kirk on guitars, Shane Rehar on bass,
Ian 'Beano' Gilpin on drums - I did a bit on the keys too, working
hard on not overplaying!
2008
Various mastering projects have been completed in the last couple
of months - look out for the new Kokomo CD, 'In the Well', this
is Kokomo's take on their favourite Dylan songs - some great perfomances
from local Tauranga musicians.
2008
Also we have just completed mastering a project for 'The B-Side
Band', an album of acoustic driven rockabilly style tracks, headed
by Simon Elton. Good fun, with some classy blues tinged songs in
there.
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Depth
of Field have been working away on a Café style
easy Capuccino drinking project that has developed into a very interesting
little diversion. We've had Steve Mills in doing a few beats on
the studio Yamaha kit, plus soon we'll be adding a few other instruments
- Mike Kirk is keen to grace us with some guitar parts, plus I'm
looking forward to getting a bit of saxophone on the project, courtesy
of Lewis Martin. This should be a great album when it finally sees
the light of day...
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