From top-left: Joshua Dixon, Joshua Colley, Jamie Hartmann, Scott Evan Davis, Lisa Howard, David Harris and Mikki Sodergren
Wow! What a day at Dubway Studios! Scott Evan Davis was in studio today with a fantastic lineup of vocalists; Lisa Howard, David Harris, Joshua Dixon, Mikki Sodergren, Jamie Hartmann and the incredibly talented Joshua Colley. Dubway's Chris Camilleri engineered.
Composer and lyricist Scott Evan Davis is recording his new musical at Dubway. Kicking off an upcoming line of Broadway luminaries working Scott's project was award winning Robert Cuccioli (Jekyll and Hyde), recording a new tune with accompanist Andrew Sotomayor. Dubway's Chris Camilleri engineered.
Rockin' Rueben
School of Creative & Performing Arts (SOCAPA) has been in the mezz this week recording some summer tunes with engineer Sam Palumbo. Photo caption was a direct request from the group!
Swiss artist Anna Rossenelli and her bandmates are spending a couple of weeks hunkered down at Dubway with producer Simon Kistler, after having toured from San Francisco across the USA.
The ClassiPop quartet Well-Strung just finished their album, tracked and mixed by Dubway's Chris Camilleri. The video is out one day and has 70,000 views - and counting! Great work, guys!
Chelsea's Mom starring Well-Strung produced by Mark Cortale, Matt Farber & Well-Strung directed by Blake Drummond edited by Randy Rainbow set design by Daniel Yund arrangement by Well-Strung lyrics by Well-Strung, Jeffery Roberson & Jacques Lamarre track mixed and mastered by Chris Camilleri Pre-order our new album POPssical on iTunes!
On the heels of her #1 single (Fight Song), Rachel Platten and band have been in the studio this week gearing up for their summer tour. Dubway's Chris Montgomery will be their front of house engineer on tour and we couldn't be more proud. Have a great trip!
Stephanie brought in her crack band to get a version of a new song, in record time, performance totally live, including her wonderful vocals. Engineer Mike Judeh captured the magic.
Sometimes, the whole class just needs to spread out and holler. Erica Greenblatt brought in her Dual Language class (PS 87 William T. Sherman) for some spirited choral blasts.
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Fiona McBain (Ollabelle) was in studio recording some smoky reinterpretations of jazz classics with Mike Visceglia (Suzanne Vega/Kinky Boots) on bass and Gary Schreiner (Rick Moranis) on piano and chromatic harmonica.
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Fiona McBain and Mike Visceglia
Courtesy of UMG, Thirdstory was at Dubway working up new material with the writers and band mates of Sam Smith. These three guys can really sing!
Margaret Valentine has been tracking several songs in the Mezzanine, with a stellar band: Marc Shulman, Tony Tino, Gary Seligson and musical director Dan Weiss. Also on hand was Isabella Summers, the "Machine" of Florence and the Machine.
Where it all started - Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash... Al was working with his partners in Acoustic Cafe / SongCraft Presents producing a video featuring Lera Lynn, and the songwriting process. The brand new song, inspired along the road from Nashville to Memphis, was written that day, performed live for an audience that afternoon, and put to bed with a recording at Sun.
The Sing for Hope album project, of the Aids Quilt Songbook, has risen to Amazon's Top Ten worldwide. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/aids-quilt-songbook-sing-for/id938729242
Producer Marlan Barry tracked three of the songs at Dubway in the heat of last summer.
Dubway's remote recording team was at it again, this time recording a performance of Damien Rice, the Irish recording artist and producer. After multi-tracking the production, the set was mixed down in Dubway's Sandbox, for subsequent broadcast on "Live from the Artists Den."
Search Party's Meghan Currier brought in actor/comedian Jason Schwartzman to direct a vocalist for their Search Party's production of Amazon's Mozart in the Jungle.
Scott Evan Davis, a songwriter and composer, brought Broadway singer and actress, Karen Mason, into Dubway for a live recording of vocal, piano, and cello. Emmy Award winning Paul Rolnick produced, and our own Adrian Thorstensen engineered.
Executive producer David Soldier coordinated an eclectic cast of supporting performers to bring to life a collaboration of the legendary songwriter Vince Bell (Little Feat, Lyle Lovett and Nanci Griffith) and equally legendary producer/musician/performer/painter/actor Bob Neuwirth.
Three days of string sections, continuum, Hammond B3, bass flute, Theremin, flamenco guitar, mandolin, base clarinet, exotic percussion.... Contributors included Laura Cantrell, Rob Schwimmer, David Mansfield, and Satoshi Takeishi. Patrick Derivaz engineered, with Dubway's Sam Palumbo assisting.
The New York Times produced a video featuring the Kronos Quartet, designed to illuminate life inside a quartet performance. The shoot utilized two video crews - one traditional, and one recording in 3-D. Beautiful performances, lots of insight, and way cool graphics - check out Inside the Quartet. Produced by: Graham Roberts, Jeremy White, Catherine Spangler, Leslye Davis and Shan Carter.
Ana Gasteyer, SNL's alum and funny-lady girl, has released her new album, I'm Hip. Produced by Julian Fleisher and recorded by Mike Judeh at Dubway over the summer, the whole project was a pleasure. Watch the video for the single, One Mint Julip, here - it's a goodie!
