…Making music with Eliot, Mike and Aerial is one of the great joys of my life, and we're so proud to release our second record! we did the bulk of it in my brooklyn brownstone bedroom and it was a passion project for everyone involved...
...my first project producing with Joan -- incredible to work with her and Parker Kindred in the studio, after having done so many live shows together...
Therese Workman and I met briefly while cleaning college dorm rooms for extra cash. Years later, through the magic of myspace, we reconnected, and I heard her music for the first time. I was blown away. The following summer we holed up in a barn in rural Maine (our mutual home state), and these six songs are the result. Ladies and gents, please welcome Oh My Goodness to the world!
... A door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman gets caught up in the battle of wills between an ailing woman and her pretty yet stubborn daughter. His hopes of creating a deeper connection with the younger woman are tempered by his inability to ignore her mother's heartfelt request in this surprising dramedy about the heartbreaks and hilarity of life ...
In the fall of 2012, Joan As Policewoman was commissioned by Rolling Stone Germany to contribute a song to their CD celebrating the 30th anniversary of Michael Jackson's Thriller. JAPW chose to cover "Billie Jean." Faced with the task of interpreting this "Meisterwerk" and having no real plan to speak of, Joan, Parker and I went into the studio with wizard engineer Adam Sachs. Two days later here is the result.
A true live dub session in a big Brooklyn garage space: A band with many members meeting for the first time, set up on a stage --> the dub producer way up in a crow's nest, sending his manipulations of our performances back to the stage --> all the sounds coming out a massive sound system --> mics in the room --> straight to 4-track tape ... then mixed straight to vinyl -- only to be dubbed from vinyl to the world wide web ...
... my first full length album with Joan, recorded at one of my favorite studios: Trout Recording with the incredible Bryce Goggin ...
... A really memorable 2-day session in Luke's place in Brooklyn. Making music with some great friends - Eliot Krimsky, Michael Bloch, Parker Kindred, Adam Chilenski, Luke, and I all crammed in a little apartment recording to 4-track tape ... and I got to ape some zydeco accordion ...
In between making albums of originals, JAPW took some time to record some choice covers, ranging from Sonic Youth to Public Enemy to T-Pain. I went in the studio with Joan, Mike Johnson (of Glass Ghost) and wizard engineer Adam Sachs for a day, and we payed our homage to Britney Spears. Too much fun!
... I have been making music with Noam since college, dating back to my first album as a producer. "Found Alive" was made over the course of three memorable shows at the Living Room in NYC. Aside from receiving a jolting shock through my nose and leg via the mic / 1960's-era organ i was sitting at, the album was a joy to make. It features fellow Mainer Heather Masse on vocals, and was mixed in a barn ...
I have known Eliot and Mike since the college days, and I was overjoyed to team up with them on one of my first full-on projects as a producer. The entire record was made in the Brooklyn brownstone I was living in at the time. The house featured a four story wooden stairwell, where we recorded (or re-recorded) most of the sounds. The second album from Glass Ghost is in currently in the works!
...A little Brooklyn Bromance I was asked to score. I had one day, surrounded myself with instruments and microphones, and went to town. Justin Wood makes a cameo on clarinet, the rest is me having a blast ...
... One of the first projects I became involved in upon moving to NYC. Luke is a creative wellspring and is a big inspiration to work with ...
... Andrew Bergmann - Bass ... Uli Genenger - Drums ... Recorded during one of the most memorable summers of my life in Amsterdam, then brought back to Boston to mix ...