Good afternoon to you - I recently mixed/mastered some tracks for The Caress - an alternative five-piece based in London, and they’ve released the first two tracks ‘Bruiser’ and ‘Oh God (I’m So Lonesome)’. There are Soundcloud steaming links below, but you can also check them out on Spotify, iTunes and YouTube. And all the rest.
These guys write beautiful songs and I can’t wait to be able to share more soon!
With love,
Ed 🎚🎛❤️
This post is long overdue - but I’ve been really busy (washing my hair, mainly). Here’s a track I engineered/produced/mixed/mastered by amazing songwriter and musician Michael Jablonka. He’s an amazing guitarist (he’s the touring guitarist for Michael Kiwanuka) and I love that the song has amazing hooks as well as a ridiculous guitar solo. At the end of the day if you have a gold sparkle guitar you better be able to play.
We tracked the drums and bass and some of the rhythm guitars at Press Play in London, the rest at my studio.
There’s a Soundcloud player below, and here are links for iTunes and Spotify. Michael is so talented and has a new EP coming really soon, can’t wait to hear it!
With love,
Ed 🎚🎛❤️
I’m over the moon to have had a small part to play in the creation (mastering) of this amazing, new track from my buddies BuzzardBuzzardBuzzard - the band so good, they had to name it three times (or something?). Wonderful video by the good folks @ On Par Productions.
You can listen here on Spotify or Apple Music or click the video below (he gets naked in it so you may as well).
They just returned from a UK tour with Goat Girl, and will be playing @ The Lexington on 28th November.
I’m quite sure that this is just the beginning of a wonderful future for them.... more to come soon….
With love,
Ed 🎚🎛❤️
Happy to reveal the latest Boy Azooga track that I recorded/produced/mixed and mastered (ooh la laa) - it’s a cover of The Table’s, comic book dead body dance floor classic ‘Do The Standing Still’.
The video (by Toby Cameron) features Kliph Scurlock, a polar bear and some confused members of the public. Have a good day. Long live The Table.
Catch the Azoogas on their UK and US tour on these dates - I’ll be at the Scala gig tomorrow (Weds 17th Oct).
With love and Azooga,
Ed 🎚🎛❤️
Ahoy there - I've been so swamped recently, I've barely had time to post. Here with new music though - and one of my favourites off the record, which, by the way, is out now: http://smarturl.it/BA_12KF. The video was once again done by Toby Cameron of ON PAR Productions, shot on Super 8mm film.
With love and Azooga,
Ed 🎚🎛❤️
Hello there and good day to you - there is a new single and video out for the song Jerry off the forthcoming 1,2 Kung Fu! album (which you can pre-order here in lovely pink and/or blue vinyl). It's a song about a dog 🐶
The video was once again done by Toby Cameron of ON PAR Productions, shot at Cardiff Dogs Home, (please donate here) and the single is out on Heavenly Recordings. It will be available on your radio dials soon.
With love and Azooga,
Ed 🎚🎛❤️
Some more good news - I now can officially announce the release date of Boy Azooga's debut album '1, 2 Kung Fu!', out on July 8th on Heavenly Recordings!! You can pre-order a signed copy of the vinyl and/or CD here: http://heavenlyemporium.com/buy/12-kung-fu/
You can pre-order it on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/boy-azooga/1300260976
The CD version will be signed too. The iTunes version will not because that's impossible.
Enjoy the lovely album artwork below and have a lovely weekend, won't you?
With love and Azooga,
Ed 🎚🎛❤️
'Face Behind Her Cigarette' was play-listed on Radio 1 last week (well, 10 days ago!) - it's currently in a pretty constant rotation on Radio 6Music. That's cool.
Huge thanks to Huw Stephens, Bethan Elfyn and Adam Walton @ the BBC and anyone who's listened to it and enjoyed it. Or even if you haven't enjoyed it - if you sat through it and didn't even like it, then I'm even more thankful.
Just for the heck of it, go watch the video again - because if a little is good, more must be better? Follow Azooga here:
Toodles! ✌🏼
Ed 🎚🎛❤️
Happy New Year! 🎉🎉🎊 Can't wait to show you all the things i've been working on for the past for weeks, months... years (ouch). Kicking off with this beautiful new track from Buzzard that I mastered. I love love love it. Please watch, stream on Spotify, purchase and all that, so that our kid can afford to buy a shirt of some description.
'Songs from this Year' available on Spotify now: http://spoti.fi/2g5Xt5P
With love,
Ed 🎚🎛❤️
DOPE new artist alert - BUZZARD aka Tom Rees aka The Man. Listen to/watch the track below. Then go listen to some more: out through Bubblewrap Collective, available on vinyl split with Boy Azooga from Outpost and Spillers Records in Cardiff (see my previous post on this record), also available online here.
I mastered the Buzzard tracks and recorded / mixed / produced / mastered the Boy Azooga tracks. Listen to Songs from this Year on Spotify or iTunes. But just basically click the video below.
Some final words from the man himself: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
Cool, cool.
Ed 🎚🎛❤️
GOOD MORNING. Last week my buddies Don Leisure and Earl Jeffers aka the mighty Darkhouse Family put out a record on First Word Records and it's truly great. It's got a ton of my friends playing on it like Daf Davies (drums) and Davey Newington (drums, synths) of Boy Azooga, Jessy Allen (vocals) Esther (vocals), Jonathan Powell Field (violin) and Charlotte Church and more. If you like hip-hop, beats and funk, press 'play' below and go check it out NOW. Don't be a silly billy 🚀🚀
Ed 🎚🎛❤️
Here’s the first Boy Azooga single out on Heavenly Recordings - Face Behind Her Cigarette - I produced / mixed / engineered this track - it was mastered by Guy Davie @ Electric Mastering. The video was made by Toby @ On Par Productions and was actually shot in space, which is mad. Hope you like it x
Ed 🎚🎛❤️
P.S. Just found out it was Huw Stephen's 'Track of the Week' on Radio 1 last night 🤘🏼
P.P.S Special thanks to the wonderful Steffan Pringle who engineered the drums with us on this album! That man knows how to tune a snare.
Davey Newington - one of my favourite humans on the planet - and his band Boy Azooga have signed to the mighty HEAVENLY RECORDINGS. I produced / mixed / engineered the album - it took years to craft, recorded in stolen moments and lots of late night sessions. We recorded, re-recorded, and re-worked until the Boy Azooga sound was formed. When wrapping up the album, we had a few talks and figured out a goal - and then a plan - to try to get the album into the ears the folks at Davey's dream label - Heavenly. Thankfully, they loved it. A special, huge thank you to Aimee-Jade-Hayes for putting the two of us in touch, all those years ago. Love you! ❤️
The album will be out early in 2018 - I think it’s really a rather amazing and I'm really proud of him. The band are so incredible live - amazing musicians - Davey on Vocals and Guitar, Daf Davies on Drums, Sam Barnes on Bass and Guitar, and Dylan Morgan on Keyboards and Guitar. All of them on backing vox. All of these guys can play approx 43 instruments and they're better than you at all of them.
There's a lot more coming that we can't wait to show you. Onwards to album II 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Ed 🎚🎛❤️
Photos by the wonderful Stella Gelardi Malfilatre: http://www.stellamalfilatre.com/
Verrrrrry happy to see this coming out - a double EP I mastered featuring the amazing Buzzard on one side and three wonderful Boy Azooga tracks I recorded/produced/mixed/mastered on the other, out on Bubblewrap Collective on October 13th! Amazing artwork collab with Trashman Art x Carlota 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻
