Recording Studio
Projects Recorded Here
A selection of recordings made in the studio.TWD003
Mary Humphreys and Anahata's first album, sold as a CDR.
The link takes you to a page containing downloadable Ogg Vorbis files
of every track. This was recorded in 2001 on a 4 Track minidisc machine
which I don't have any more.
(no cat. number)
I was asked to record a concertina part for the music for the trailer
for a Malayalam film, using a rough backing mix which was sent me by
email. The song was in Tamil, but the backing was supposed to have a
"Celtic" feel to it. Other participants were a whistle player in Germany
and an fiddle player in Israel. I never met them, of course! My part was
simply to record a concertina track and email it to the producer in India
to mix into the final song. It's now on YouTube and the
concertina part is quite clearly audible in places, starting about about 50
seconds in.
This has to be the studio's most unusual project so far.
This has to be the studio's most unusual project so far.
(2011)
6 Track CD as demo or to sell at gigs for a local
ceilidh band. Proved I could fit a (small) drum kit and 6 musicians in
the studio. The entire recording is available on their web site. They
took a master CD and organised their own artwork and duplication.
HFCD001
Sold by Hedingham Fair as part of a package with Colin Cater's book, this
is a mixture of live recordings made at the Three Horseshoes, Duton Hill
with audience participation in the song choruses, and studio
recordings of Colin and Karen Cater with various musicians. Hedingham
Fair handled the artwork and organising CD pressing.
TWD014
Mary Humphreys and Anahata's fifth album. Treewind's first full album
project from recording to artwork, pressed CDs and promotion. Received
favourable reviews in the folk press, including fRoots magazine.
TWD015
Out Of Reach
Traditional English tunes from sessions in pubs around
Cambridge. Six of the core players came to the studio to make an album
to raise funds for Cancer Research UK. Sold worldwide, well reviewed.
TWD016
Bof! Bal
East Anglian band playing and singing Traditional French music.
When Simon Haines asked if I could recommend a recording studio for Bof!
to record their fourth album, I suggested a couple of extremely
well-equipped establishments near them (Ipswich area) and mentioned as
an afterthought that I could record them, but it would be much further
from home for them to travel. To my surprise and delight, they chose to
record here, and it seems to have been a rewarding experience for all
concerned. The recordings include hurdy gurdies, bagpipes, Sax, solo
and chorus vocals as well as melodeon, percussion and guitar. This was a
fully paid project but also on the Treewind label so is available for
sale here as well as from the band.
TWD017
A compilation of selected tracks from three earlier albums by Bof!
recorded elsewehere, remastering and artwork done here.
TWD018
With a Whitby Folk Week booking coming up for our ceilidh band Fendragon, I thought it was high
time we made a CD to sell at the festival and elsewhere. It's an album
of dance music, pure and simple.
TWD019
A Four part harmony singing group based in East Anglia. This was
recorded in two days and a master CD delivered for duplication within a
week, and it's one of my favourite albums recorded here. For most of it,
putting a single pair of microphones in front of the group and letting them
balance the sound by ear enabled a relaxed approach that got some really
good recorded performances in minimal time.
TWD020
Peterborough based ceilidh band. I did a demo for them earlier (see above); this time they
wanted a full album which included some songs as well as dance music. Released Summer 2016.
(July 2018, no catalogue number)
The first job for the new Yorkshire based studio - a recording of the traditional
music of Circassians from the North Caucasus now living in Turkey, much of which is played on
Hohner single row and two row melodeons. The Turkish-born player now lives in London.
More details and video
More details and video
TWD021
Singer/songwriter Kath Reade joined forces
with storyteller and poet Alison Dhuanna to create a show presenting a mystery folk tale
in storytelling, songs and sacred sound. I produced a
CD of
Kath's songs from the show. Also a
promotional video (YouTube)
which I'm quite pleased with as I had never done anything like this before.
TWD022
A short album of songs by Kath Reade, accompanied only by her guitar, and with a
meditative feel.