February 2016

Greetings…
I will be happily closing out a very mild winter this weekend and looking forward to the spring and all that comes with it!
I spent a good deal of time this week working from my home studio. After all the new upgrades, etc. that I made to the City studio over the Christmas break, I came to realize just how important and somewhat difficult it can be to keep 2 full studios up and running in sync with each other!
The good news is the tracks are all sounding great and I managed to get through the required technical downtime and maintenance and all is better for it…
While on the tech side I must mention how much I love the Steven Slate plugins. Damn… He and his team are really, really on it:-) I just downloaded the new guitar plugs and was really impressed! This coming from someone who builds my own guitar amplifiers and has owned more than I care to share and as someone who owns a Kemper profiling amp…

On the work front (work is a strong word), I finished up and got final approval on a few commercials that have been in the works over the last few weeks and continued working on tracks for the young artist coming from Switzerland in a few weeks.
The fantastic Jeffrey Wilgus was in the studio and we started on a fun new song as well. We also got to catch up on some vintage country listening and some classic Loretta Lynn tracks:-)

Now back to arranging that big band…

Enjoy the weekend and the Oscars…

-M

Greetings…
It’s been a fun week in the studio again:-) A nice mix of projects going on over the past 5 days.

I kicked off the week with some additional versions of music for last weeks Easter spots. Moved onto a song and instrumental track for a new young girl group for the new Lego series. I’ll be updating here on the status of that as it hopefully moves forward!
I produced the first track of four or five for a young female artist coming into the city next month from Switzerland. She’s a total delight and I’m looking forward to working with her again this year. More to come on that project as well as the songs start to come together.

This week I also met with an agency and signed off to compose the music for a fun new campaign featuring big band music! Time to dig into some serious arranging… I’ll be updating on this as I get into the tracks. This is going to be a real fun one with virtual reality filming and lots of CGI. Extended music as well so I’ll have my hands full! More to come.

Lastly, I got to put on my mastering head for some wild new tracks featuring the great Cassidy Ladden on vocals. I tracked the vocals at Engine Sound for my friend composer Richard Hall. Richard was in a very hip 80s english band called Electric Guitars who used to tour with Peter Gabriel. Check them out on youtube. Fun stuff!

Looks like it’s going to be cold as hell this weekend in NYC folks… Here’s that winter we were waiting for:-)

Finished a few more mixes for the very talented Huxley Rittman this week. Check this guy out! I’ve had the pleasure of mixing his music for the last year or so. His current solo efforts are really impressive as is his work with the bands “Yankee and the Foreigners” and “The Cave” which I got to mix as well. Do some searching and listening to this unique new artist!

In TV land I finalized a crazy kids spot for a wacky new game. Got a chance to break out the banjo yet again… Good times y’all!
Of course it’s never to early to start making Easter music so I hopped up some light and airy fun for Kroger as well!

Got a chance to work on and develop a brand new song for Odiseas Georgiadis as well this week. Mid tempo special song that I can’t wait to continue on when he and his team get back from LA working with Kendrick Lamar!

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday weekend!

This week saw a nice mix of projects getting finished up!

Music & voice overs for 6 new Renaissance/Marriott hotel TV spots.
Production and music on a batch of web shorts for the Superbowl.
Final, final, final mix on the new Odiseas Georgiadis hit:-)
Production and mix on new song “Have Mercy” featuring a guest vocal from Evan Hall of Pinegrove. Congrats to Evan and the guys on their exciting new record deal with Run For Cover and their great recent review ion SPIN!
Final mix on beautiful and plaintive new Jeffrey acoustic ballad “Two Words”.
Vocals with the amazing Kim Viera and final mix on brand new song.

Enjoy the Big Game (even though the Philadelphia Eagles aren’t even CLOSE to being part of it!).

-ma