July 2000
Collective Soul Project nearing completion - Ed Roland and Ross Childress were up at bopnique to record vocals and guitars on 12 songs for Collective Soul's upcoming fifth Atlantic release. Presently titled "Blender", the record is being mixed by Bob St. John at Futura Productions Boston. The overdubbing process has been going on for about 7 weeks and is finally nearing completion. Anthony Resta and Ed Roland are producing the record, and Karyadi Sutedja is engineering.
Shawn Mullins news - Shawn's new record "Beneath the Velvet Sun" is being mixed by Chris Lord Alge and mastered by Bernie Grundman. Recently Shawn recorded 3 more songs in LA with producer Julian Raymond (Fastball). This brings the total of songs including b-sides up to 14 (about 11 or 12 will be on the record), 8 produced by Shawn and Anthony, 4 by Julian and Shawn. Nashville studio musician/ songwriter Mike Lawler co-wrote a couple
of new songs with Shawn, Julian and Matthew Kahler. Really cool stuff. The record will be released in October 2000.
Ajax news - the Ajax song "Ah the Wonder of Technology" has been getting airplay on college stations throughout the NorthEast, thanks to Intelligent Records. Juanita at WBCN has been playing the track on Boston emissions Sunday nights also. Thanks Juanita!!!
On t.v. - Michael Troy and Anthony have recently had several compositions placed in episodes of "All my Children ", "The Young and the Restless", thanks to Barbara Jordan and Heavy Hitters. Barbara also recently placed AJR's electronica piece "The Getaway" in foreign versions of ABC's Wasteland.
Upcoming summer projects
- Techno Whiz from the DC area David Z is coming up to record his sophomore release for three weeks in July and august.
- Eric Johnson's Echohead is coming in to do more stuff.
- The Mudhens are going to be recording a new 5 song EP.
- Atlanta's "Steep", a really cool pop rock band, is coming up to do preproduction for their first release.
- Ajax Ray O'Vaque
will begin work on the follow-up to "Demos from Saturn" this September
- Carla Ryder will be in to record a single
New Intern - The studio is happy to announce that a new assistant/intern, Jourdan Paul, will be working at the studio this summer. She is an accomplished flautist and will be majoring in music production and engineering in the fall. Welcome Jourdan!
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