1 February 2012 by John L.

Drums, bass, and pedal steel.

Available on Bandcamp.

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24 August 2011 by John L.

Sun Ra Arkestra, Philadelphia, June 25 2011.
Audio recording: Love in Outer Space (mp3).

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17 August 2011 by John L.

Tape is a more natural way to record than digital technology. Yes, if you think that suspending a zillion little magnetic rust particles in plastic and then telling them how to line up as they get dragged past an electromagnet, which has to be fed by a high-level supersonic signal just so the audio doesn’t sound like a buzzsaw, is totally natural.

http://www.emusician.com/tutorials/five_digital_audio_myths_busted/

But does anybody really use the “natural” argument?

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15 August 2011 by John L.

The TBC (To Be Continued) Brass Band at the Blue Nile in Frenchmen St, New Orleans, July 10 2011.

Audio recording: Why You Worried ‘Bout Me? (mp3).

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13 August 2011 by John L.

Yes, a long time between posts.

Some of that time I’ve been travelling in the USA: New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta, New Orleans, Miami.

I saw bands, and recorded some of them on my newly acquired Tascam DR-08.

Stay tuned for some highlights: the Funk Brothers, Tito Puente Jr, the Sun Ra Arkestra, and the TBC Brass Band. Sure, just as soon as I get busy on the DAW editing the rough live recordings into deliciously polished nuggets of audio niceness.

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8 May 2011 by John L.

It’s taken a while for this album to become available.

Mastered at CutSnake in December 2009.

Lots of history…

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27 March 2011 by John L.

The attraction of tape and vinyl puzzles me. I’ve recorded to tape, and we had 4- and 8-track machines in the studio during the eighties. They were expensive and awkward to use.

Vinyl leaves me completely cold.

Tom Ellard disses vinyl (and other things): Audio Mouth Breathers

Owsley Stanley (RIP) talks about the near-impossibility of accurate playback from vinyl.

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26 February 2011 by John L.

Now available from CDBaby.

Some percussion and vocals came out of Cut Snake.

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26 February 2011 by John L.

At Gearslutz:

I wouldn’t even consider doing a joint audio project with somebody who was using windows, because they simply don’t get it, and wouldn’t be on the same wave length as I. And if I stepped into a recording studio and saw PC’s running windows only in the control room and no Macs, I’d turn right around and walk out the door, as that wouldn’t qualify as a professional studio, according to my standards.

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4 November 2010 by John L.

Finally a new studio CD from the Okapi faction. (We’re using a slightly different name this time, given the musicians involved.)

We started recording this back in 2007, but put out the live CD before completing this.

We’ll be giving it a proper launch in January 2011, but it’s already up at CDBaby if you want to have a listen.

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