Loathe - Dimorphous Display

Ahoy - ‘new’ music is here - well new to this page anyway. I worked with the mighty Loathe on Dimorphous Display, released back in January (2022) on Sharptone Records. I wasn’t able to post about it at the time due to life reasons, but here it is. I recorded/produced/mixed and co-mastered this track, with lots of input from the band too, of course.

I love getting the opportunity to work on heavier music and these guys are some of the most talented musicians I’ve had the pleasure of working with; super keen to experiment and try new things, yet also really clear on the sounds and textures they want.

Check it out on Apple Music and Spotify, or click on the official YouTube steam below…

Oh, and enjoy some photos from the session, the cool black and white photos were taken by the multi-talented Feisal El-Khazragi (bass guitar in Loathe) - hence why he’s not in any of them!. He has his own photography Instagram here. The colour ones are just my iPhone snaps of the session.

There’s loads more I could share about this track, and more praise I could heap on the band, but I’ll let you listen for yourself.

Enjoy,

Ed ❤️🎚🎛

P.S. If any Loathe fans ever find this page, rest assured that despite what keyboard warriors and bedroom producers say on the internet, there were no drum samples used on this track, no amp emulators, no 808s…

Boy Azooga - O Silly Me

Really happy to finally share a new track from Boy Azooga that I produced/recorded/mixed/mastered - it’s a glimpse at the second LP that we’re currently working on. I think it’s really beautiful and am so proud of Dave for writing such an amazing song.

Dave says it’s: A song about worry: written when worried, that might hopefully ease some worry for other worriers. Hope you enjoy it (no worries if not).

Isn’t he just lovely.

You can listen to the song in all the usual places, Apple Music or Spotify, or check the video below (created by On Par)

With love,

Ed ❤️🎚🎛

Listen, Like, Love: Sera - Little Girl

I spent a lot of 2014/2015 working on an album for Sera. She's a folk/country/americana artist, and came to me with a bunch of songs written on piano or guitar, plus vocals/lyrics, and we worked together to make an album. She's a really brilliant songwriter. 

The album's called 'Little Girl' and was released on Folkstock Records - it's had play on BBC Radio London, BBC Wales & Cymru, Absolute Radio, and I'm sure a bunch more that I'm not aware of.

It was a LOT of work - as well as recording/mixing/mastering the album, I played guitar, synth/keys, bass, drums, percussion and even did some backing vocals (!), so it was quite a labour of love. We wrote the final track 'Through The Night' together, and I'm really proud of the whole album. 

It also features songwriting collaborations with Sion Russell Jones and Gordon Mills Jr (The Bluetones, Ed Sheeran, Lissie, Newton Faulkner and Lillian Todd-Jones), as well as violin by Jenn Williams and cello by Sion Lewis.

Sera/Folkstock also released an EP called 'Rocks' which features a subset of the rockier songs from the album.

Thankfully, both the album and the EP have had some great reviews - I generally am not a huge fan of posting quotes as it makes me feel a bit queezy, so I'll leave you to check out the Huffington Post or Americana UK if you really feel like it. Still, here's one last one from From the Margins, just to flatter one's ego a little (hey, if I don't no one will etc?): 

Her last EP, Straeon, saw a first musical collaboration with the producer of this album, Eddie Al-Shakarchi, who contributed by playing on Mond am Eiliad and Agor dy Galon. If anything has changed to make this new album something a whole stratospheric level above what, however excellent, she has recorded before, it must be this new working relationship. Al-Shakarchi is also a multi-instrumentalist - and his contribution of often spare but dynamic percussion is particularly important here in breathing life into the music.

Isn't that nice? You can stream Rocks below, and if you like it, please check out the whole album on BandCamp or iTunes / Apple Music. Thank you and have a lovely day.