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New Alliance East: Mixing, Mastering, Production, Song Writing New Alliance East adds the hi-definition analog warmth your record deserves at a fraction of the cos

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Operating as usual

12/02/2022
11/30/2022
Photos from Eugene Mirman's post
11/19/2022

Photos from Eugene Mirman's post

10/01/2022

Hey Everyone, we're excited to say that our debut album, "Vis Viva" will be dropping on October 21st. Pre-Save the album today on Spotify by clicking the link below.

https://show.co/uVUjqdF

Album Art - Nicole Errico's Art
Mastered at - New Alliance East: Mixing, Mastering, Production, Song Writing

Working on another Remix Collab with for an EP we just finished at the studio. Xen MilesMalcolm Francis
09/09/2022
Zizza channels for new remix

Working on another Remix Collab with for an EP we just finished at the studio.

Xen Miles
Malcolm Francis

Working on a bunch of collabs, remixes, and other original music… Focused somewhat exclusively on the Fairlight CMI unti...
09/03/2022
This Bliss on Instagram: "Zizza spooky soundtrack collab with "

Working on a bunch of collabs, remixes, and other original music… Focused somewhat exclusively on the Fairlight CMI until further notice… ;-)

This Bliss shared a post on Instagram: "Zizza spooky soundtrack collab with ". Follow their account to see 472 posts.

08/12/2022

Check our new album Leather Motel on 💿 💿 💿. Follow the links in our bio to hear the epic title track & order a disc direct from us w/ a custom art piece exclusive to the first 50 units.

Trying out a new snare drum tomorrow. Come bounce to the new improved boom boom pew pew! Live music and arts show at the...
06/09/2022

Trying out a new snare drum tomorrow. Come bounce to the new improved boom boom pew pew! Live music and arts show at the

05/09/2022

Mixing a track for Clamb today. Getting our classy synth jazz freak on!

05/06/2022

Friday is synth day. Post Somerville Open Studios synth party!

Photos from New Alliance Gallery's post
05/02/2022

Photos from New Alliance Gallery's post

Full house in synth land! Come by and jam!
05/01/2022

Full house in synth land! Come by and jam!

Somerville open Studios day one complete! Come see what synths we have set up tomorrow. The roster will be rotating! ...
04/30/2022

Somerville open Studios day one complete! Come see what synths we have set up tomorrow. The roster will be rotating!

Come to Somerville Open Studios this yeah time get your synth jam on! We have a bunch of beasts set up for your pleasure...
04/29/2022

Come to Somerville Open Studios this yeah time get your synth jam on! We have a bunch of beasts set up for your pleasures!

Fairlight Meeting feat. ZIZZA [EXPLICIT]The Boston Typewriter remix.2021
10/19/2021

Fairlight Meeting feat. ZIZZA [EXPLICIT]
The Boston Typewriter remix.
2021

As a group that uses old-time equipment to make modern day music, we appreciate it when others apply the same attention to detail. So when ZIZZA said he made an entire remix using only a Fairlight CMI III, we said "hell to the yes." ZIZ claimed he was going for a New Jack Swing feel, but we're not hearing it. Instead it's just 1983 all over again and the future is going to involve a fax machine in every home and cell phones the size of shoe boxes.

https://bostontypewriterorchestra.bandcamp.com/track/fairlight-meeting-feat-zizza

This track includes a video by BTO's James Brockman.

Twinsies just back from the synth doctor! Ready to funk!
06/24/2021

Twinsies just back from the synth doctor! Ready to funk!

06/17/2021

Finalizing a remix for ADI SUN. Perfect summer jam is incoming! 🙌🙌 all elements written around the original vocals including but by no means limited to: Simmons SDSV, Linndrum Lm2, TR808, Fairlight CMI III, Arp 2600, SCI Pro 1, Jupiter 6, Tx816, Casio MG1, et. Etc...

06/10/2021

Almost done Writing a remix for Boston Typewriter Orchestra. All sounds are from the Fairlight CMI III and one track of Roland Jupiter 6. Sampled or otherwise. Found sound from the 50s!

06/08/2021

Not not my usual fare! Mix master on some rather dizzy rascal sounding rap!

05/19/2021

Mixing more trance synth jams today! Gotta live a DX7 bass and some jazz loops with a ton of delay ;-)

luckily this is our most musical pet...the K2000 gets really warm so it's a regular cat perch.
05/11/2021

luckily this is our most musical pet...
the K2000 gets really warm so it's a regular cat perch.

Don’t let your cats hang around your synths unsupervised

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Mixing a track for Clamb today. Getting our classy synth jazz freak on! #clamb #jazz #bostonmusic #newalliancegallery #newallianceeast #synthesizer #moog #improv #clambgramb

Friday is synth day. Post Somerville Open Studios synth party! #somervilleopenstudios #synthesizer #moog #rolandjupiter8 #tr808 #tr909 #vintagesynthesizer #recordingstudio #bostonmusic

A little wiggle goes a long way! This band reminds me of Kings X. Those guys rocked! #masteringengineer #recordingsudio #bostonmusic #heavymusic

Working on some music ideas for a podcast intro here at the gallery. They requested ‘percussion only’. Super fun! #somervillema #bostonmusic #recordingstudio #fairlightcmi

Mastering this total party jams record today... so much wow!! ;-) #recordingstudio #bostonmusic #somervillema #dancemusic

Working on an end of days dance song with Sexdrone tonight! #somervillema #recordingstudio #sexdrone

Getting some dark dark Yello vibes today. #fairlightcmi #synthesizer #vintagesynths #bostonmusic #recordingstudio

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Mastering this super dark and dreamy MAW lp today! Electronic Lofipop is where it’s at! ;-). @matthewbsavage @didsburysound @ccundari @newalliancegallery @newallianceeast #somervillema #recordingstudio #popmusic #lofimusic #electronicmusic

Working my Ghostface beats tonight I. The Fairlight🙌🙌 @newallianceeast @newalliancegallery @newallianceaudio @hamstanky @alex.hartman.1 @a_man01 @thisblissmusic @partyboisband @jaw_knee_jboi @bisou.andre @jessbaggia @vegboarder @samuraiwhite @dwjcreative @didsburysound @cooandhowl @matthewbsavage @ccundari

Building a giant synth pad today! 16 tracks of synths for the left and 16 for the right!! This just faders up to get sounds and levels! #synthesizer #bostonmusicscene #newalliancegallery #newallianceeast #newallianceaudio #oberheim #rolandsynth #sampler #rolandjupiter8 #sequentialcircuits #arp2600 #yamahadx7

Sampling myself a la Prince lol. I started making my own banks of drum bits for producing and writing. These toms were recorded at New Alliance! #bostonmusic #recordingstudio #newallianceeast #newallianceaudio #fairlightcmi #somervillemusic #vintagesynthesizer

Layering some distorted delay drums vis the Oberheim DX and Deltalab Effectron III for a new Maw song today! #oberheim #bostonmusic #electronicmusic #maw #recordingstudio #drummachine

At the studio running instrumentals for a current project. Orange helps the melancholy with a hint of the ongoing terrible news in the background... #makingarteveryday #recordingstudio #newallianceeast #newallianceaudio #bostonmusic #recordingengineer #newalliancegallery

Bouncing the last beat into the daw so I can start another one. I love being able to easily route voices and outputs on the fly. I’ve got it al normalled to protools for 16 inputs and there’s extra outs just to the headphones for writing etc #makeart #bostonmusic #partyboisband #partyboismusic #thisblissmusic #newallianceeast #newallianceaudio #fairlightcmi #covidjams

New jack chill! Making a better staycation by making art! I have mostly mastered my way around the fairlight cmi iii! Let’s make 2000000006 songs! ;-). #fairlightcmi #staycation #coronajams #newallianceeast #bostonmusic

This is the first time I’ve been really impressed by a new piece of gear. Just picked up an ADR compex from the 70s. This this bangs. It Loves compressing and sounds very exciting while doing so...omg! #recordingstudio #somervillema #newalliancegallery #newallianceeast #mixing #mastering

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Just finished mastering with our friends at New Alliance East: Mixing, Mastering, Production, Song Writing. We think y’all gonna dig. Coming soon!
This is the title track from our 2nd full length album. We spent nearly a year & 1/2 working on this collection of songs, all done at home, sent around to band members via file sharing. This song in particular has a lot of colorful guitar textures & tones in play. Marc & Adam using a complex weave of pedals Fairfield Circuitry (The accountant & four eyes fuzz), Walrus Audio (Julia), Electro-Harmonix (polychorus & holy grail reverb), DigiTech (whammy ricochet), EarthQuaker Devices (disaster transport sr. & night wire), TC Electronic (flashback X4), Nine Of Swords(satanic ritual fuzz Boss Effects Pedals(ps-5 super shifter, jb-2 angry driver, sy-1 synthesizer), Caroline Guitar Company (meteore), all through amplified power by Fender& Peavey Electronics John's bass growl employs EarthQuaker Devices (Grey Channel) moved through the air by the M Pulse by Mesa Boogie

No slight to the vocal & percussion arrangements, maybe we’ll deep dive some more in a future post. We hope you enjoy this track, it’s a cornerstone in our catalog. Tell your friends, & pick up the album on 💿💿 . Oh, and a big shout out to Nick Z at New Alliance East: Mixing, Mastering, Production, Song Writing for mastering this unruly band of misfit tracks.

get Leather Motel (full album) on CD https://neonfauna.bandcamp.com/merch/leather-motel-cd

Stream Leather Motel on YouTube
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The bonus of having New Alliance East: Mastering down the hall is there’s usually a reliable session drummer on site!
💥NEW MUSIC DAY!💥
Check out the new Garden Of Hedon single “Love And Light” available NOW !!!

Love And Light
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There is a song
As old as time
About the thread that runs between
Everything alive
It’s a song of love
It’s a song of light
It says to love is the meaning of life

When your pain becomes too much
Lean on me let me be your crutch
When you’re praying
down on your knees
Let my love set you free

In these times of woe
To try and find some peace
I sing a song of hope to remind us
We are all one family
And sometimes there’s love
Other times there’s pain
Sometimes we must get lost
To find our way

Love and light is what we are
In our minds and in our hearts
I am you, you are me
Open your heart and you will see
A little love is all you need

Love is all you need
Love will set you free
Love will always be
Light of love shine down on me

Even on our worst day
We know we’ll still get by
Then again on our best day
When everyone’s feelin high
If you’re mind is full of question
Close your eyes to see
There you’ll find the answer
Love is all you need

What if these words
Weren’t just a song
And when we sang them together
The whole world sang along

Love and light is what we are
In our minds and in our hearts
I am you, you are me
Open your heart and you will see

A little love is all you need
Light of love shine down on me
Love is love is love
And love of love is all we need
Light of love shine down on me

Love is all you need
Love will set you free
Love will always be
Light of love shine down on me

Love is all you need
Love will set you free
Love will always be
Light of love shine down on me
Love is love is love
And love of love is all we need
And it starts with you and me.

©️2022 come with me music
Garden Of Hedon BMI

Matt Zajac: Lead Vocals/ Acoustic Guitar/ Backing Vocals
Marc Ford: Slide Guitar
William James Donovan: Bass Guitar/ Backing Vocals
Steven Serra: Electric Guitar
Johnny Keys: Piano
Tim Provost: Drums
Tim Corrigan: Backing Vocals/ Percussion

Recorded/Mixed by: Ethan Dussault at New Alliance Audio
Mastered by: Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East: Mixing, Mastering, Production, Song Writing
Here’s a little promo teaser for our new single “Love And Light” which comes out next Friday (6/24)! I am super proud of these new songs we recorded and it is such an honor to have one of my absolute favorite musicians playing on this track with us! I hope you will take the time to check it out when it comes out next Friday bc I really think these new songs are the best I’ve written so far!
“Love And Light” is a song about the common thread that connects us all to one another. It’s a song of hope. It’s a song of peace & solidarity…togetherness, understanding, compassion & love. I wrote this song during a very dark time in our world, politically, socially and otherwise. I felt like people (including myself) could really use some positivity and could maybe benefit from the message of a song like this and through the power of music. “I sing a song of hope to remind us we are all one family”. It’s an attempt to transcend the political divide and all the things keeping us apart & remind us that we are all one. Perhaps I’m an idealist but this is the kind of message i want to be putting out in the world and I know there are others who stand with me. “Love And Light is what we are/ in our minds and in our hearts/ I am you and you are me/ open your heart and you will see/ a little love is all you need.”
Be kind to one another- we are all in this together. Our differences in thoughts and values do not make us enemies. ”Love is love is love and love of love is all we need/ and it starts with you and me” ✌🏼

“Love And Light” will be available on all major streaming/download platforms next Friday 6/24! ☀️
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Recorded & mixed by Ethan Dussault at New Alliance Audio

Mastered by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East: Mixing, Mastering, Production, Song Writing
11. Conscious Wonder

When I shared some early demos with friends, this song got the most positive feedback. I was surprised because I didn't think much of it at the time. Since then, it's become one of my favorites and I absolutely love how the recording came out.

This was my first ever music collaboration with Benny Grotto. Nerd alert: We'd recently started playing D&D together, along with Henry and Charles from Aloud. (My first time playing D&D too, actually!) Benny killed this mix. It sounds so full, crisp, and ✨fantastically magical ✨ (probably from all the D&D).

Tim Wright's drums are imaginative and spot on, Kiel Szivos's bass locks in perfectly, Anthony Savino's lap steel brings this to another level, and I gotta say, Anthony Hoey's backing vocals are the secret sauce on this one. I promise you, it doesn't sound right without 'em!

The line "Even the calm before the storm" was originally "Even the witch inside the storm." This was my [unsuccessful] attempt to reference that scene in The Wizard of Oz where Dorothy's house is swept up in the tornado and the Wicked Witch flies by her window. "Calm before the storm" fits better, but I just love that scene.

I actually feel like this song still has growing to do, so I'm excited to play it live and see what happens!

Matt Jatkola: Vocals, guitar
Anthony Hoey: Additional vocals
Anthony Savino: Lap steel
Kiel Szivos: Bass
Tim Wright: Drums
Recorded by Matt Jatkola, Anthony Hoey, Anthony Savino, Kiel Szivos, Tim Wright
Mixed by Benny Grotto - Producer/Recordist/Mixer/Musician at Mad Oak Studios
Mastered by New Alliance East: Mixing, Mastering, Production, Song Writing
9. Ride the Wind

Leave all the uncertainty behind and make a pact to fly far away with someone you love, literally or figuratively. It's a song to dedicate to your ride or die.

The chorus came to me in a dream. Words and melody only. I whispered it into my phone early one morning as I was waking up. It took me a few days to find chords and write the rest of the song, not because it was hard, but because I didn't want to force it. I remember not overthinking the lyrics while writing them, especially the verses and bridge, and because of that, I think they're perfect now. I wouldn't change anything about them.

The vocals and guitars are all from those few days. It's rare to catch an early demo take and be able to use it on the final, but they're the heart of this song.

I asked Nicole O'Neal of Indianapolis band Wife Patrol to play bass. It was our first time collaborating but she knew exactly what the song needed. I love what she did here.

I wanted to push the drum sounds further than my original demo. Tim Wright helped develop them into the dreamy, far-out-ness you hear on the final. I love those too.

Matt Jatkola: Vocals, guitar, keyboards, programming, samples
Nicole O'Neal: Bass
Tim Wright: Drum programming
Recorded by Matt Jatkola, Nicole O’Neal, Tim Wright
Mixed by Matt Jatkola
Mastered by New Alliance East: Mixing, Mastering, Production, Song Writing
8. When Tomorrow Comes

Oh! The first single we released from the album! A song very much inspired by my cancer journey. I've already shared a lot about this one, but here are some extra nuggets:

🗣 The "oh!" vocal you hear in the song is actually a few tracks of "oh!" and a few tracks of "ow!" - not a mistake 🤓

🎸 The riff is something I've had kicking around since at least 2008, maybe longer. So glad it finally found a home.

💛 Really happy I got to record this with Matthew Glover and Kiel Szivos. Very meaningful collaboration with my brothers right here.

🔥 It is true, I recorded the guitar solo in my underwear!

Matt Jatkola: Vocals, guitar
Kiel Szivos: Bass
Matthew Glover: Drums
Recorded by Matt Jatkola, Kiel Szivos, Matthew Glover
Mixed by Adam Taylor at Bang A Song Studios
Mastered by New Alliance East: Mixing, Mastering, Production, Song Writing
7. Gas Station

For a long time this had no lyrics. I assumed I’d save this slow build arrangement idea and work it into some other song. Then I realized there was merit to letting it be exactly what it is. There’s no chorus, verse, or bridge, just a groove really, but it felt good to me, and strangely complete.

I resolved to try some vocal ideas. If they didn’t work out, I’d leave it as an instrumental.

The vocal melodies came just like the music did - by working fast and layering ideas. Throwing spaghetti at the wall, ya know? I couldn’t find a *bang bang bang / boom boom boom* drum sound for the instrumental that was BIG. I wanted those 6 hits to be the anchor of the entire rhythm. So I thought, maybe I’ll just sing it! And that became the main hook.

Initial lyrics came quickly but I tweaked them for months, changing syllables, one word here, half a word there. I cared about what was being said but not in a narrative story-like way. It was about words that sounded right and phrases that evoked… something! I guess there’s some innuendo in there too.

I programmed some drum machine sounds but I wanted a live drummer to come in halfway through the song to make the groove really settle in. Seth Botos sent over a dozen options to choose from (bless him). Funky stuff, straightforward stuff, off-the-wall fills. We ended up Frankenstein-ing multiple takes together.

My vocals alone weren’t cutting it. I asked Anika Pyle to track some versions of the hook and main vocal lines. Then I said, “Do some stuff where you just vocalize. Shout, laugh, make noise, don’t use words.” Much of that is in the final - my favorite being her overblown “woo!”

The title? Gas Station? Well, that’s just the first thing I thought of. Those are often the best titles.

Matt Jatkola: Vocals, guitar, bass, programming
Anika Pyle: Additional vocals
Seth Botos: Drums
Recorded by Matt Jatkola, Seth Botos, Anika Pyle
Mixed by Matt Jatkola
Mastered by New Alliance East: Mixing, Mastering, Production, Song Writing
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