punkest wrote on Fri, 25 March 2005 07:14 |
Hey Ryan, it sounds as if you have recorded in Jamaica, have you? How is it? What you did over there? I would love to go and record some stuff at Tuff gong or any place there for that matter!!! |
lord wrote on Fri, 25 March 2005 08:42 |
Was Blackwell ever actually "in the studio" with anybody? I assumed he was kind of a "I'll stop by when you've got masters and fly back to England" kind of guy... |
compasspnt wrote on Fri, 25 March 2005 20:48 |
...Although Chris is not an engineer, musician or singer himself, he most definitely is a true producer who has been directy involved inside the studio. |
Ryan Moore wrote on Fri, 25 March 2005 11:42 |
You can easily just call up Tuff Gong or any other studio & book time, it seems a very competitive scene there with minimal block bookings eg: people are booking short 3 hr sessions mainly.. so you can often book sessions with 2 or even 1 week notice...its about $30/35 US per hour for top studios like Tuff Gong (!).. |
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Something many people today don't realize is that many of the greatest producers were never an engineer, musician or singer. They KNOW what a great performance is in each of those areas but motivating others to come up with the goods is what I think producing is really all about. |
cgc wrote on Sun, 27 March 2005 00:21 | ||
Too bad the greatest Jamaican studio was destroyed over two decades ago. The Black Ark must be (re)built!! |
Bob Olhsson wrote on Sat, 26 March 2005 08:31 |
Something many people today don't realize is that many of the greatest producers were never an engineer, musician or singer. |
Ryan Moore wrote on Mon, 28 March 2005 00:55 | ||
Apparently there was some kind of plan to rebuild the burned out shell of the Ark and even a $ allocation a few years ago by Lee Perry but not much was heard since then.. |
cgc wrote on Tue, 29 March 2005 02:00 | ||||
It's good to see another Black Ark enthusiast. I was paraphrasing a line from an old Situationist manifesto about urban landscapes called FORMULARY FOR A NEW URBANISM by Ivan Chtcheglov (don't ask me how to pronounce that). The original phrase is 'The Hacienda must be built!' and was the inspiration for a certain legendary Manchester club. Like most manifestos the subject is couched in metaphor and allegory, and I think some of the playful language and approach to technology fits in with Scratch's methodology pretty well. You can read the essay here: http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/Chtcheglov.htm or in slightly more pleasant html here: http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/1 I had an opportunity to meet Perry several years ago through a fellow that wanted me to interview him about his production techniques. Given that it was a number of years since his last decent output I figured he probably didn't care about such things anymore. Of course, this guy asked a bunch of questions anyway and Perry said that he hadn't touched a mixing desk since the destruction of the Black Ark and he would not talk about anything relating to that. Personally, I think whatever drove him over the edge also sapped much of the desire and enthusiasm that drove his work. |