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Isochronous's Acoustic Album "IMAGO" launched
- Artist: Isochronous
- Title: Monition
- Album: Imago
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- Length: 3:25 minutes (3.9 MB)
Isochronous's second album, "Imago," was launched over April and May to packed houses around the country . The album was recorded both in the Cape Town and Joburg branches of Sound & Motion by Matthew James, Richard West and James Olivier and was mixed in Joburg by Simon "Fuzzy" Ratcliffe.
The band has been very complimentary about the results, evoking such emotives as "Shweet!". Thanks guys.
The first 500 copies of the released album will have a different unique design. Imago's release has been supported by two music videos, The Curve and The Tempest, also featured on the album.
Isocronous Workshop
- Artist: Isochronous
- Title: Oxygen
- Album:
- Genre:
- Length: 5:49 minutes (5.4 MB)
Its not very often we have an opportunity to do something a little out of the ordinary, but more so here at Sound & Motion Studios. At the end of every year our staff from all branches congregate in Cape town main branch to have a week of collaboration, workshops on recording, surround mixing, and a annual general meeting, oh and don't forget the staff party!
At the end of last year, for the recording workshop we invited ISOCHRONOUS, a talented and diverse band from Pretoria, to come and be our guinea pigs, and record a single called OXYGEN in our studio, the band jumped at the chance, having worked with Sound and Motion in Cape town and Johannesburg on their recent acoustic album.
Another interesting piece of the opportunity was that I (Matt James) arranged to travel to Vancouver, Canada in December '09 for a holiday, I booked a day in a renowned studio called Vogville studios, where mixed the single on a mint SSL 4000 series console using some of the most expensive and pristine outboard gear I have ever laid eyes on! ( Teletronix, API, Emperical Labs, Tubetech, Avalon etc. etc.) It was an amazing experience, and I am stoked with the result, it sounds great!
Lisa Bauer Quartet
- Artist: Lisa Bauer
- Title: Devil May Care - Sneak Peak
- Album:
- Genre: Jazz
- Length: 4:11 minutes (5.7 MB)
And all that Jazz! Lisa Bauer stopped by at Sound & Motion Cape Town to record her new album. Its not difficult to make magic when you are working with the best in the business: Award winning Andre Petersen putting our piano “Agatha” through her paces, Chantal Willie on the double bass and backing vocals, Kesivan Naidoo played drums, Max Starcke on acoustic guitar and Mark Snyman on saxophone. It was an incredible experience and definitely a memorable project. Lisa's performance was sparkling and the Jazz fell in love with our new Live room... The band performed everything live, the only overdubs being vocals, guitar and saxophone.
Fuzzy wrapped up mixing and mastering with Lisa last week and we are thrilled to offer you a sneak preview of “Devil May Care”. For the whole track, keep an eye out for her upcoming album release.
ALL SYSTEMS GO!
- Artist: Shy Guevaras
- Title: All Systems Go
- Album:
- Genre: Rock
- Length: 3:52 minutes (3.6 MB)
Although the band has sadly split up, we thought we’d post some of the awesome photo’s on Facebook and website of Fuzzy mixing “All Systems Go” by Shy Guevaras in San Francisco last year. Please check out our blog where you’ll see our intrepid head engineer drooling over an SSL mixing desk…oh and this one was mixed without computers—all on the mixer, on the fly and using tape.
