We are a music production company in Brooklyn, NYC that specializes in capturing live performances in high-quality studio audio and HD SLR video. Our artists include a diverse range of international artists with major label credits, in genres including Neo-Soul, Funk, RnB, Jazz, Roots Reggae, and World Music.
We offer several services including recording packages, beat conversion, bookings, a catalog of over 20 different styles of music for singers, MC's, and other vocalists to choose from, industry events, and a weekly writing night for session musicians.
We believe in charitable acts, and our team of professionals and interns work pro bono. In this blog you can peek into our world, and see the work and fun behind the high-quality products we produce for the virtuosic artists we have the pleasure of working with.
We Breed Virtuosity.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
All that Jazz…
Aloha :)
Today, Puttruukuu and I battled with some pieces of writing. It’s not always easy to project the voice needed to most clearly communicate your ideas. It’s even more frustrating when you know what you want to say, or know that you can say it better. Ugh!! But we overcame, continuing to create more effective ways of expressing our points. Phew.
The audio engineers are hard at work on their songs and it’s hard to believe the sound keeps getting better, but it does.
This morning, Putruukuu (yes, spellings may vary), asked if I’d read “Sonny’s Blues.” If you haven’t read this short story by James Baldwin, and you love music, I highly recommend it!! Like, go read it, right now! Here’s an excerpt from one of my favorite moments:
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within, and the music enters, what we mainly hear, or hear corroborated, are personal, private, vanishing evocations. But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for that same reason. And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours. I just watched Sonny’s face. His face was troubled, he was working hard, but he wasn’t with it. And I had the feeling that, in a way, everyone on the bandstand was waiting for him, both waiting for him and pushing him along. But as I began to watch Creole, I realized that it was Creole who held them all back. He had them on a short rein. Up there, keeping the beat with his whole body, wailing on the fiddle, with his eyes half closed, he was listening to everything, but he was listening to Sonny. He was having a dialogue with Sonny. He wanted Sonny to leave the shoreline and strike out for the deep water. He was Sonny’s witness that deep water and drowning were not the same thing-he had been there, and he knew. And he wanted Sonny to know. He was waiting for Sonny to do the things on the keys which would let Creole know that Sonny was in the water.
Whoa! Amazing.
This morning I felt like some Frank and some Ella, so I got to listening, and pretty soon we were all feeling pretty smooth jazzy crazy cool, ya dig? lol. And just like that we were all-stars!!
Tyrannosaurus Raxle
Papa BatEyez
Dr. Clemens
Surley Barker
Red Yurmine
Moolty Cax
Crazy, all the alter egos that come out in this place! We love it though, if you haven’t read Patrick’s blog from earlier this morning, he nailed it. We’re here, working this hard, all the time, because we love it. Pure and simple.
Trust, we looked much better than we sounded.
mYnicIsNiK
