"Rush"-ing to An Xbox Near You

Now that the power is back and we find ourselves caught up enough to take just a tiny breath, it's as good a time as any to write about what we've been up to since last time....

This week we were thrilled to work with an old friend of the studio (also an internationally-acclaimed film, stage and voiceover actor), Mr. Brian Dennehy.  Brian was in the studio working on a couple of projects, including a new Xbox Kinect game code-named "Rush" based on various Pixar films.  Brian was lending his voice to the project as a reprisal of his character "Django" from the original 2007 Pixar film, Ratatouille.  His other project was a narrative voiceover for an upcoming historical film titled Ice Bound, which deals with both the physical and psychological hardships that settlers in Nome, AK were forced to overcome during the early 20th century.  As always, it was a pleasure watching a true professional of the craft hard at work.

We would also like to take a moment to recognize and congratulate another friend of the studio, Orice Jenkins, on his wonderful write-up in the Hartford Courant this past Sunday.  This young, talented jazz artist is drawing widespread praise for both his songwriting and piano playing, performing for (and with) some heavy hitters in both the regional and national jazz communities.  Of course, this came as little surprise to us, since we have been fortunate enough to record and mix both of Orice's last two album projects here at Tapeworks.  The growth in his playing and writing between the two albums recorded here ("Just One of Those Things" from Fall 2010, and "Journals of a Teenage Chromaticist" in Summer 2011) is huge, and the sky appears to be the limit for this strong local talent.

Congratulations, Orice!  We look forward to hearing about all your upcoming endeavors, and working with you again in the future.

Lastly: we hope that everybody out there has managed to come out of the horrible storm and ensuing power outage that ravaged CT a couple of weeks back in good health and moderate humor.  Hopefully the worst storm of the winter is already behind us, and we can all look forward to a prosperous (and dry!) November.  Stay tuned for much more in the coming weeks! 


- TW