October 2003

Mastered releases for Deep Elm Records artists Fire Devine and Sounds Like Violence and Hollywood, CA songwriter Joel Burns. Louis Pain and Dan Balmer of The Mel Brown Quartet stopped by to master their new “Live at the Britt Festival” CD. Producer/musician Don Henson of The Headless Human Clones and Sneakin’ Out was in with Michigan artist Gary McInnis to sweeten his new 11 song Christmas release. Salem, Oregon harp and flute duo RoseWynde were in with producer/engineer Jim Norman to wrap up production on their new Christmas CD “Winter Ayres”. Mastered a compilation for KTHX-FM of Reno that included rare studio and live performances by Los Lobos, Mumbo Gumbo, Howie Day, Robert Cray, Dishwalla, Robben Ford, Joe Craven, Jesse Colin Young, Pete Yorn and John Hiatt. The Paisley Pop Label artists Crack City Rockers sent their new CD in for treatment as well as other Portland area artists including Ty and Nonoy Alovera, The Al Perez Band, THIRTY3, Monn Tanno Mondo and Sumara. Mixing commenced on Manta‘s new CD. Portions of this month’s news were published in the “Coast to Coast – Session & Studio News” section of the January 2004 issue of Mix Magazine.