Erica Rotstein records album tracks in Dubway's Mezzanine

Erica Rotstein, center, performing in support of her previous EP.

Erica Rotstein, center, performing in support of her previous EP.

Songwriter and bandleader Erica Rotstein took over Dubway’s Mezz recently to record parts of an upcoming album. Dubway engineer Diego Demarco was behind the board, with notable NYC producer-musician Justin Goldner (Sting, Macy Gray, Ledisi, Donald Glover, Dear Evan Hansen) managing the session.

Erica Rotstein recorded piano and B3 (using our Hammond and Leslie pair!) on this session. Best of luck with the rest of the project, and we look forward to hearing the finished product!

Everything Turned To Color tracks drums in Dubway's Mezzanine

Engineer Russell Castiglione, left, with Everything Turned To Color in the Mezz.

Engineer Russell Castiglione, left, with Everything Turned To Color in the Mezz.

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New York band Everything Turned To Color recently stopped by our Mezzanine studio to track drums for their upcoming second album, with local powerhouse producer Blake Morgan in the control room. The session was engineered by Dubway’s Russell Castiglione and tracked through our classic SSL 4000+ G Series console. The band chose some of our more interesting microphones to capture their drum sounds, including our pair of BBC-engineered Coles 4038 ribbon microphones.

Best of luck to the band as they continue work on this project! For a full list of our equipment, microphones, and rooms for your upcoming projects, check out our facility overview.

John Luther Adams' "Become Desert" edited at Dubway with Nathaniel Reichman

Pulitzer-prize winning composer John Luther Adams is set to release the companion piece to his award winning Become Ocean this week. The piece is titled Become Desert, and was produced for Cantaloupe Music by Dubway Studios lead engineer Nathaniel Reichman, who mixed the album in 5.1 and Dolby Atmos formats in addition to stereo. Reichman worked extensively with the composer to make sure the mixes capture the spatial elements of the piece, which is orchestrated such that five smaller ensembles are placed throughout the recital hall for additional spatial effects.

The recording was performed by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and commissioned by their music director, Ludovic Morlot. Editing for the piece took place at Dubway’s Main Floor studios to ensure the recordings were ready for the multiformat mixing process Reichman, Adams, and Morlot elected to undertake. Check out some photos of the recording below, read a write up of the album on NPR’s First Listen here, and pick up the album at the Cantaloupe Music link above after June 14th!

Adams, arm raised, takes a bow with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.

Adams, arm raised, takes a bow with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.

Nathaniel Reichman, John Luther Adams, and Ludovic Morlot at the recording location.

Nathaniel Reichman, John Luther Adams, and Ludovic Morlot at the recording location.

"WEIRD! The Musical" tracks vocals at Dubway's Main Floor

WEIRD! The Musical, a new play from Peaceful Schools Productions, tracked vocal overdubs at Dubway’s Main Floor this month, with our engineer Violette Furton recording.

The musical is a family-friendly story that deals with the issue of bullying, and features a number of incredible vocalists and performers. The recording was produced by Dani Ryan and directed by an all-star team of Shawn Forster, Natalie Weiss, and Riley Mahan.

You can find more information about the production, including upcoming showtimes, at its website.

Dubway records James Bay for Artist's Den

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Dubway engineer Russell Castiglione did the live record for the Artist’s Den series, featuring James Bay live at Webster Hall. Artist’s Den has worked with Dubway previously as a reliable source for recording engineers in the studio and out. For those unfamiliar with the format, Artist’s Den hosts live showings of artists, often of new work, which is performed for an audience with a full touring-style lights and sound setup, and simultaneously recorded at the highest-fidelity for release, often with video.

Congratulations to all involved on the successful show – you can find additional photos of the show here, with video and audio to come!

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Violinist Itamar Zorman stops into Dubway

Acclaimed concert violinist Itamar Zorman stopped into our studios to give a series of interviews to radio and media outlets, courtesy of his representatives at Frank Solomon Associates and John Shuman Associates, who produced the session.

The interviews were engineered by Pascal McGilvray-Guard, with calls to radio stations recorded remotely via our phone recording system. For a taste of Itamar’s performance and interpretation abilities, take a look at a recent video of him performing a work by Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim, as part of Zorman’s recent recording – the first ever commercially available – of some of Ben-Haim’s music.

Crossover Media conducts classical radio interviews

David Osenberg of WWFM interviews Matthew Lipman in one of our sound rooms.

David Osenberg of WWFM interviews Matthew Lipman in one of our sound rooms.

Dubway studios has served as a radio booth for the past few months for an ongoing series of interviews, conducted by Crossover Media, between luminaries in the classical music world and radio stations around the country.

Pictured left to right: producer Amanda Bloom from Crossover Media, cellist Hee-Young Lim, and Dubway engineer Keenan DuBois in the Dubway lobby after a day of interviews.

Pictured left to right: producer Amanda Bloom from Crossover Media, cellist Hee-Young Lim, and Dubway engineer Keenan DuBois in the Dubway lobby after a day of interviews.

Recent guests have included viola player Matthew Lipman (pictured), whose album Ascent debuted a newly discovered piece by Shostakovich; virtuosic cellist Hee-Young Lim, who recently released an album with the London Symphony Orchestra; and pianist/polymath Roman Rabinovich, who stopped into discuss his recently-released album of Haydn piano sonatas.

Mike Tedesco live recording showcases Dubway's Mezzanine studio

Musician and songwriter Mike Tedesco brought his band to the Mezzanine studio at Dubway for a live tracking session with a video team. The result is a lovely video of our studio that shows its capabilities as both a live event space and a tracking facility. Our engineers Sam Palumbo and Chris Camilleri handled record and mix engineering, respectively, to help produce this videoed performance.

You can catch Mike live in New York at a string of upcoming shows (see link to his website, above) and stream his new EP on Spotify.

Mixing Ana Gasteyer's new album

Actress, comedian, and musician Ana Gasteyer (SNL, Suburgatory) has been working on a new Christmas album, and Dubway’s Sam Palumbo has as well. The sequel to Gasteyer’s 2014 I’m Hip is titled Sugar and Booze and is being mixed in Dubway’s Red Room. The album is being produced by the similarly multitalented Julian Fleisher (actor, bandleader, writer, and composer) and is shaping up to be just as fun as the team bringing it to life.

A release date for the album is as-of-yet to be determined, but you can catch Gasteyer’s live show at a number of cities in the coming months, and her previous album is available on all major platforms.

"Perfectly Victorian" records single in Dubway's Mezzanine studio

Alex Newell channeling the stage in the booth.

Alex Newell channeling the stage in the booth.

Last week, Dubway’s Mezzanine studio hosted the talented production team from Visceral Entertainment to record the live studio single “As I Am” from the musical Perfectly Victorian. Actor/singer Alex Newell (of Glee fame) recorded the vocals, with Dubway’s Sam Palumbo in the control room. Take a peek at the live video below, and don’t miss Perfectly Victorian, set to premier July 7th at the New York Musical Festival.

Guy Barash: Talkback VII

Guy Barash came in to record vocals with Jamie Jordan for his new composition, Talkback VII. This contemporary classical work is comprised of voice, and prerecorded electronic soundtrack.

Here is a note from the composer about the piece:

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Image from artist website

The seventh in a series of compositions for solo instruments and electronics, Talkback VII “Polaroid” is a dialog between a singer and her prerecorded voice. It is based on the eponymous poem by Nick Flynn, which examines a famous exchange between Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso:

He paints her face from memory.
But it doesn’t look anything like me, she argues.
Perhaps not, he says—but it will.

Talkback, just like in online media, is a response to something more substantial: western tradition, the canon. It is smaller but often as significant as it is a sincere manifestation of the zeitgeist. Real-time interaction between the singer and her electronic incarnation, similar to forms of contemporary communication—posting, tweeting, blogging, etc.— is filtered, yet very real.

Gene Marlow records two albums in one day

Critically acclaimed jazz composer, Gene Marlow, came in to record seventeen songs between two records with Sam Palumbo. This session involved piano, drums, upright-bass, saxophone, and vocals.

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The first record tracked featured Arcoiris Sandoval on piano. The overall theme of this record is love, so we are looking forward to hearing it in the coming months!

The second album tracked that day is called Blue in Green: Inspired by the jazz poems of Grace Schuman.

"BULLDOZER" The Musical Vocal Recording

Earlier this summer, Peter Galperin and his band recorded instrumental tracks for his musical, “BULLDOZER” with Russell Castiglione. They just finished part two of the recording process with Sam Palumbo.

The entire cast cycled through the studio over a few days, including former American Idol, and Rock of Ages star, Constantine Maroulis.

Read our previous article about the instrumental tracking here.

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Music Recording and Mixing for The Park Avenue Synagogue

The historic Park Avenue Synagogue has been working with Dubway to make an album of 21 children's songs.

Musical director, Colin Fowler, brought a handful of musicians up to the Mezzanine studio to record drums, piano, bass, clarinet, saxophone, flute, and four vocalists. This marathon session was engineered by Zac Suskevich.

Later, Pascal McGilvray-Guard recorded pickup vocals on the main floor of the studio, and Sam Palumbo Mixed all the tracks.