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Recording with John Morgan Kimock, Eden Ladin, Andy Hess! At The Bunker Studio.
Great chemistry, great takes! We all got along well, no fights! Notable that my friends Jon and Aaron build this studio from the ground up, I recall talking about it even while we where seniors at New School. Now they are one of the best options around!
In and out! Fun couple of days in NYC! What a fun session at The Bunker Studio in BK w/ Nick Finzer big band! Also this section was FUN🔥🔥
See you next month New York! This time for good❤️
Tonight I’m playing at the Elephant Room w/ Christian Wiggs from 9pm-1am. See you there!
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This week’s is the perfect creative hideaway nestled deep in Brooklyn NYC. The Bunker Studio is a 3000sq ft complex owned and operated by musician/engineers John Davis and Aaron Nevezie, and was built to avoid the clinical, sterile feel the pair felt many high end studios had, whilst offering a level of acoustics and equipment far beyond the typical home studio setup. The result is a striking space with the acoustic flexibility to adapt to everything from rock bands to chamber orchestras – and one of the most accurate mixing environments you’ll find anywhere in the world.
Studio A easily allows for live tracking of large ensembles with excellent sight lines and isolation. The huge live room with 25ft ceilings, string and rhythm rooms and iso booth each have their own unique character and provide inspiring acoustic environments in which to play. The control room features a vintage Neve 8088 console plus an extensive selection of vintage and modern outboard, and some sweet Abbey Road-style custom REDD47 tube mic pres which are exclusive to the complex.
Studio B is a smaller tracking room, overdub and production studio with a large control room. The live room is 230sq ft with 12ft ceilings, and has hosted a range of tracking sessions from full rock/indie bands, bluegrass groups, horn sections to chamber ensembles. There’s a Neve 8058 in here, alongside an 8816 summing mixer offering 16 additional returns.
Elsewhere in the complex is an exceptional mix room featuring an SSL 4040E/G, ATC 110s and access to the plate room which features two EMT 140 plates and an AKG BX-20 spring reverb. The mastering room is home to engineers Alex DeTurk and Colin Bryson, allowing the studios to offer a full range of services from basic tracking through mixing and expert mastering.
For more info, click here:
https://milocostudios.com/studios/the-bunker-studio/
Enquiries 📩
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Psyched for the release of Brad Mehldau’s new album ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ on Nonesuch Records 🔥
I took the video above in my vocal booth at The Bunker Studio. Brad handed me a printout of a photo of the Penitent Magdalene by Donatello for inspiration. I looked in her eyes while I was singing Brad’s “Cogs in Cogs” Gentle Giant cover.
I also sang/screamed on these other ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ tunes below:
“Herr und Knecht”
“Entr’acte (Glam Prelude)
“Heaven (Pt. II, “Life Seeker”)
The second video is of me tracking vocals for Brad in “tree pose”. 🌴
You can purchase the album and receive a free piano score download via Brad’s website:
https://www.bradmehldau.com/
Run around NYC with us and catch clips of us in the studio at The Bunker Studio
Introducing the music video for:
S K Y S C R A P E R
https://youtu.be/7DRDFkHTyqw
Shot by us: Aaron and Jacque
Edited by: Kate Bennis
FINAL SINGLE OUT TODAY: COME ON KIKI! 🤍
https://emilywells.lnk.to/RegardsToTheEnd
“Come On Kiki” contains many images, beginning with the sculpture ‘Tied to Her Nature’ by the artist Kiki Smith. The song was written immediately after reading from ‘In the Shadow of the American Dreams: the Diaries of David Wojnarowicz’, in which Wojnarowicz describes dancing with Kiki Smith in the aftermath of their friend Peter Hujar’s death, though the song doesn’t tell this story. It tells, in part, my own, one of wanting more of exactly what I have, of desiring to move in time circularly, inside of all that has been experienced, and therefore gained. I was thinking a lot about Harry Nillson when arranging and recording: instruments and melodic phrases moving in and out of frame like dancers or extras in a play, set against the steady voice as storyteller. If I have a pet song on the album, this is it.
Live Drums: Mike Thies
Upright Bass: Evan Runyon
Bass Clarinet, Clarinet: Hideaki Aomori
French Horn: Jim Wells
Live drum recording engineered by Nolan Thies at The Bunker Studio
Aaron was tired of making computer constructed music so he put a band together.
November 1st of 2021, at The Bunker Studio in Brooklyn, we cut “Skyscraper” to the Studer 24 track tape machine with on guitar, on bass, on drums and producing the live session.
I pinch myself that these class act incredible talents touched this track. The dearest dudes I heart so much! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Swipe ➡️ to see the making
Album shot by:
Shots in studio:
Dreaming of the spring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ftrGPwJADw
Archive footage edited by Clare Elliott
Song produced and mixed at New Warsaw Studio by Riley McMahon.
Recorded at The Bunker Studio in Brooklyn.
Spottiswoode: Lead vocals
John Young: bass
Tim Vaill: cymbals
Kevin Cordt: trumpet
Riley McMahon: mandolin
Tony Lauria: accordion
!! Beyond the Bomb x Melt - we are so excited to release a video of our song Walk to Midnight. We recorded this live version in our last hour of studio time The Bunker Studio this summer – the studio isn’t the only place where we run short on time though. Today the of the Atomic Scientists made their annual announcement of how much time remains until nuclear “midnight” via the . We're at 100 seconds, the closest to midnight that we've ever been. But, together, we can reverse the Walk to Midnight!
2022 spring tour + NEW SINGLE + Vinyl/CD preorders:
https://emilywells.lnk.to/RegardsToTheEnd
I’ll be touring the US this spring, a handful of dates supporting the fabulous band Son Lux and headlining the rest. Tickets go on sale this Friday Jan. 14 at Noon EST. After two years (mostly) alone in my studio writing and recording this album I truly can’t wait to bring these songs fully to life through your ears, imaginations, and physical presence.
LOVE SAVES THE DAY out today! I joke that this song is my magnum opus because it took me several years to write the arrangements and complete. It has been stripped and redressed in various frocks of production but it wasn’t until I found my compositional voice for the new album that I knew how it was suppose to live. The cover is a painting, “April 14, 2018 (RIP David Buckel)” by an artist whom I deeply admire, Michael Stamm … more on that soon.
And, PREORDER Regards to the End now via my website. Find all the things at the link above!
Incredible insane performances on the clarinet, bass clarinet, and flute by Hideaki Aomori, the real star of this recording.
+ extreme delights and mind bending performances from Mike Thies on live drums which were engineered by Nolan Thies at The Bunker Studio + Topu Lyo on percussive piano & cello + Evan Runyon on upright bass + Jim Wells (my pops) on French horn + Damian Primis on bassoon. With production assistance from Chulo Records and mixed with Christopher Botta.
📷📷📷PHOTO by Rachel Stern
Happy New Year!
Here’s my little arrangement of John Coltrane’s ‘Impressions’ from Robby Ameen’s latest album ‘Diluvio’.
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Beautiful way to end my studio dates for the year… Excited to share this one with you all soon. 😊
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