Excello Recording

10/20/2025

Some guitar amps at the shop. Each of these sound great but the Fender Pro Reverb at bottom middle is special to me. I found that at a pawn shop in Pittsburgh 40 years ago. I’d just relocated to NYC and was sleeping on the floor of a studio apartment share up by Columbia University. The Pittsburgh Pawnshop offered “lay-away” purchasing and I sent the owner the money ($20 bucks at a time). The next year during my Christmas visit to mom & pop, I went and picked the amp up. They owner had moved it to the basement and had noted the amount and date of each of my Mail-in payments on the last-away tag. $225 bucks! Sounds great and makes me smile! ps - that’s this amp in the track.

10/17/2025

Recently had the pleasure of making some demos and hosting a tracking session for - and Rob all brought it! You may have seen some of the content created and even heard a snippet of one of the tracks. Go on and check it out over at The Compulsions IG. Lots of cool studio shots there too

10/10/2025

Had a really fun tracking experience with these talented folks! are a serious Power Pop group and that’s their track, Split Screen playing. The record is out! Are you partying this weekend? …painting the house? …driving somewhere? Go ahead and stick this into your listening!! Thanks to all!

10/03/2025

Single alert! Out today! Video and drums by Keith Robinson Music recorded, mixed, produced by Hugh Pool Check It out…pretty cool piece of art here and the whole record follows suite!

This song is the second single release for the full length album Goddamn Outer Space from Lorraine Leckie and Her demonsOtherside is about loneliness, its ab...

09/28/2025

This one was a little tuff emotionally. My grandfather, for whom I’m named, made this tennis court in the mid 1950’s. He hired out for the site work but dug the court himself and got the clay out of the ground right here on the property. He enjoyed playing in it for about 35 years and raised up a family who can handle themselves pretty well on the tennis court. A session was not finished until the court was dragged, swept and rolled with a 300 pound cast iron roller and as soon as I was strong enough…around 10yrs of age, that was my detail. Anyhow, we’ve kept the forest from taking over for around 25 years now but this fall I decided to finally pull-up the tapes and just make the area mowable yard. Who knows, maybe the site of a future music festival!🦏❤️

05/27/2025

We had a fun session yesterday creating a sort of choir vocal arrangement for Nihilistic Beach Anthem, Sun, Sun, Sun. L -R that’s and Kris

05/24/2025

A lot of good stuff has been happening over the last couple of weeks. Focusing here on a rare bird. I took delivery of a K19 guitar amp this week. When originally released, they made quite a splash in the guitar world with 5 out of 5 ratings pretty much everywhere. “As much a work of art as an amplifier” sticks in my mind. Anyhow, 3 k***s and I’ve never experienced a “Saturation” potentiometer as musical as this. Still getting to know it but…come by and check it out if you want. This is definitely a case where the thing itself exceeds the hype.

04/30/2025

File under, Known Accomplices & Co-Conspirators! Tune werkin’ with

04/26/2025

Always a pleasure to work with this guy!👊 New music coming from and as usual it takes no prisoners!

04/14/2025

Wrapped last week, accompanied by the herself, 👁️
Produced by , on drums, on bass, on backing vox. 🔥

It’s got that moody, composed vibe—think PJ Harvey meets the cosmos.
Off to now for the final shine. Can’t wait to share this with y’all. 🚀✨

04/01/2025

Just sharing an interesting little corner of the studio this morning with fancy reverb stands and also to say, I’ve really been digging this Black Magick amp! We already had a 1x15” speaker cabinet at the studio and this thing speaks so well through it. 30+ amps here and this thing is distinctively responsive and very fun to play through. Thank you!👊🫵👍🙏

03/13/2025

in the studio yesterday on the morning session. In the fiddle department, Chris is your guy. He’s well rounded, personable, gets it done and he sounds fantastic! We’ve been doing morning & afternoon sessions quite a bit lately.