Riding the Heat Wave

It's been a couple of weeks since our last blog, mostly because we've been frequenting the Tapeworks company inflatable kiddie-pool* to stay cool!  That being said, things have been busy as ever with a few new projects from some of our favorite clients.

For the folks living the Hartford area: you may have seen a new campaign for the Hospital of Central Connecticut airing on TV recently.  While we've had a long-standing relationship with the HoCC in producing audio for their radio and TV spots, this project involved one of our absolute favorite musicians and world-renowned guitarist, Mr. Jeff Pevar. Jeff came up with a new arrangement and played all of the instruments on what is now a cool & upbeat acoustic guitar-driven adaptation of the old HoCC theme.  The spot sounds and looks great - keep an ear and an eye out for it!

A couple of weeks ago, young singer-songwriter (and good friend of the studio) Emily Yanek returned to Tapeworks to record vocals for her upcoming 2nd album.  While it's always exciting when Emily stops by the studio, this experience was made particularly special by the in-studio vocal production  by Leah Kunkel.  Ms. Kunkel, who forged her own singing career in the late-70s and 80s with a couple of successful solo albums as well as significant appearances on albums by James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and Art Garfunkel (among many others), is the sister of the late, great "Mama" Cass Elliott.  It can be incredibly educational to work with someone with as much studio knowledge and experience as Leah, and our engineers (along with Emily) are thrilled to have had that opportunity.

Lastly, Chief Engineer Bill Ahearn recently "commandeered the dance floor" in creating a 2-minute, radio-ready techno song for an upcoming Lego project.  While we can't divulge full details at this moment, let's just say that there was ample booty-shaking throughout the studio during the creation of this ode to auto-tuning.  And none of it was pretty.  We'll post the link once it's up!

That brings us up to speed, with several ongoing projects that we'll be discussing in the next couple of weeks.  If you're looking for us, we'll likely be out back on the Tapeworks company slip 'n slide.