mmanthony

Damn it has been a while since I’ve posted anything here! Well, I’m back in the thick of it and Fall is officially in full swing so I’m once again on my posting game:-)
It was a very productive and busy summer filled with great new music being created across the board. Music for TV and radio advertisements, music for London fashion week for Maybelline, record company meetings with exciting new artists and everything in between! Much music has been created in a vast array of styles and genres…
Check out www.enginesound.com to watch and listen to some of the latest advertising music.

This week I’m in the process of working on 3 new tracks for 3 very different and gifted artists. I had a great time yesterday with Kathy Sommer and Amanda Rain tracking on Kathy’s wonderful Yamaha C6 for a new production that will feature a fantastic string quartet featuring the very talented and sweet Cenovia Cummins and her sister Stephanie. Also working on some new ad music for Kroger and Fred Meyer stores…

In addition to all the studio time I’m also happily getting back into doing some live gigs. Tomorrow I’ll be rehearsing for a gig here in NYC on the 25 with my longtime producer/friend/mentor/all around great guy David Wolfert and the amazing Natasha Alexander (also known as NLX) www.nlxmusic.com. I can’t wait to catch up David and to play with these 2 truly talented and wonderful people! Monday I have another rehearsal with Nikki Gregoroff www.nikkigregoroff.comand crew. I produced Nikki’s most recent record and it’s really a beautiful album. I can’t wait for it to be officially released. She’s one of my favorite singers of all time and it’s such a pleasure and so much fun to be playing with her. Gigs for that band are coming in the new year!

That’s it for now. Enjoy the fall weather while you can!

-M

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve checked in!
So far the summer has been fantastic. Lots of great music being written and produced in many areas:-) I’ve also been much more proactive with getting out of the studio and both meeting new wonderful people as well as catching up with old friends and clients.

A few stand outs over the past week were Tuesdays great Tame Impala show at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. By far one of my favorite bands! Got to see them twice on this tour and they sounded perfect and the weather was as good as it gets for an outside concert…

I attended 2 days of Sync Summit here in Manhattan this week as well. Lots of great people doing wonderful things for music for picture, licensing and advertising. Lots of heavyweight music supervisors as well as publishers and writers as well. I got to catch up with some agency music producers and publishers and learned quite a bit a long the way. Looking forward to working with some of the new folks I met and generally really pleased with the overall positivity of the industry moving ahead!

I also got news that the film Sugar! starring Tony winner Alice Ripleywill that I did some engineering on and Steve O’Reilly wrote the music for will be premiering at the Long Island International Film Expo on July 20th which should be fun!

Lastly I got to catch up with some old friends and two of the greatest drummers around last night as we attended the Seth Meyers show and watched Johnny Tempesta as guest drummer. He was amazing as always and we had a lot of fun afterwards:-) Johnny was sitting in with the band all week as The Cult just wrapped some dates on tour with Guns and Roses. Good stuff!

Have a great weekend. Weather looks sweet!

-M

There were a lot of great things that happened this week…

but nothing was as cool as working with Jerry Barnes (Nile Rodgers/Chic). I was humbled by his baddness…

It may be a long time before I pick up the bass guitar again.

Enjoy the weekend!