1/26/12 - Party Boat's new album summer girls is posted! Grab the nearest Corona, sit back, and take a listen.
Maya Kurchner's cover of "You Da One " by Rihanna is up as well. With a semester at Berklee down, she's certainly headed in the right direction. Keep checking back for more music from Maya very shortly!
1/19/12 - Party Boat's new album "Summer Girls" is mixed. I'll post a link and some music when the Boat is ready to set sail! It's a great mix of indie rock and punk, and will definitely make you wish you were at the beach.
I also had Maya Kurchner back in the studio yesterday to work on some covers. I'll post those as they are finished!
1/1/12 - Happy New Year to everyone! 2011 was a great year, and 2012 is already shaping up to be even better! I am well on my way to being done with the demos for my solo CD. I hope to start the actual tracking by the end of January.
Party Boat's album is fully tracked and I'm starting to mix it this week. We should have it wrapped up in the next two weeks. As always, keep checking back in for more news!
12/17/11 - My father's new CD is mixed and mastered. Pick up a copy HERE ! Party Boat has been in the studio for the last week or so working on their new album "Summer Girls". We will be wrapping it up in the next two weeks, so check back in soon for new music from them! I also added Emma Disimino's new track "Better Than This" to the player. Take a listen!
11/11/11 - A lot has happened in the last month! Emma Disimino's album is mixed and mastered and sounds great! I will have music posted shortly. I also helped my father mix his album. He is currently working on the artwork and once that is complete, I'll post some music and more info. A while back I helped my aunt record piano for her newly released CD. We had the privilage of recording on the Steinway grand in Zankel Hall at Skidmore College. Click here to check out her website and listen to tracks from "Ocean Picture Book". And lastly, I recently found out that the track "Saturdays" which I co-wrote and co-produced with Jeremy Borer was featured on MTV's "Rehab with Dr Drew." More exciting news to come in the next month!
9/2/11 - The last month has been a busy one. I am wrapping up the final touches on Emma Disimino's album. I finished co-mixing my father's album and it should be back from mastering soon. And after quite some time, Nate Soloman's EP is mixed and mastered! Check out the tracks here!
Plenty more to come in the next month. Keep checking back for updates!
7/11/11 - I'm working on an album with DC based Emma Disimino. After a few weeks of pre-production via skype, we spent yesterday recording drums. As always, thanks to Chris Carey for some awesome beats!! Emma will be back up here in August to lay down the vocals and in the meantime, I will be laying down the instrumental parts.
In other news, I have tracks from Nate Solomon's most recent live show and will be mixing them to be released with the studio tracks we've done.
And lastly, I am helping my father mix his new solo album which is going to be pretty great! It sounds like a mix of Tom Petty and CS&N.
More to come on everything in the next few weeks!
6/7/11 - Party Boat's four song ep is mixed and mastered! I played bass on the album and it was punkin' good time!! I added their track "Out of My Head" to my player, but to hear more and pick up a copy of the album, click here !!
5/10/11 - "The Whiskey Hearts E.P." by Racing City Ghosts is finished. I've added one of my favorite tracks, "The Sad Refrain", to the player, but click on the above link to hear and buy the rest of it! Whiskey fueled acoustic punk to start the day off right!
4/26/11 - Maya Kurchner's CD is finished and sounds great! I have uploaded a few of the tracks into the player. I would like to thank Grammy award winning Scott Jacoby for mixing the track Fairytale, Evan Parness for a great job on the mastering, Chris Carey for his impeccable drumming, and Andrew Brown (yes, relation) for his gorgeous cello playing. Maya did an amazing job with the songs and her vocal performances are amazing! You'll be hearing more of her name in the future!
4/9/11 - Quite a bit is happening this month! Maya Kurchner's album is mixed and is being mastered this week. I will be posting the tracks on the site when it is finished. I recorded a whiskey fueled accoustic punk band called Racing City Ghosts and am just about finished mixing the album. More details to come as that wraps up in the next week. This past week I recorded a few tracks written and performed by a harmony driven folk duo, Judson and Zack, to be used in a documentary on acid rain in the adirondacks. That will be wrapping up this week as well. And lastly, I am finishing up mixing and putting some final touches on Nate Solomon's album, which should be done by the end of the month. It's going to be a great album!
Callison Stratton's album is now available for digital download here.
I have also added a video section to my page, so click on the "Visual Noise" tab and check out the LUMETE video for which I wrote and recorded the music, and JT Maple's video for his single "Chance I'm Looking For".
Exciting new music on the way, so keep checking back!
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2/10/11 - I just completed music for the promotional video for NYC based LUMETE Sunglasses. I will be creating a visual media page for my site soon but in the meantime click HERE to watch the video. To find out where to get your hands on a pair of LUMETE sunglasses visit their site www.lumete.com !
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1/23/11 - I started producing music in Saratoga about a year ago. The site is finally up and things are going well! Check out the "Noise With Others" section to see some of the artists I've worked with. I will be adding my solo music to the "Noise Solo" page shortly.
Currently I have two outstanding artists in the studio. One, a very talented 18 year old singer/songwriter named Maya Kurchner has a sound very similar to Taylor Swift. The album is turning out great and should be done in the next month or so. The other is Nate Solomon , an amazing vocalist and songwriter who sounds like he belongs in Seattle in the 90's. Just a few more guitar tracks and we are done! I will be streaming the albums on my site when they are finished, so check back regularly for updates.
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Coming from a family of full time musicians, it isn't by chance that JBrown has always felt the need to make music his life. His background includes 12 years of classical training on violin, 17 years on bass guitar playing and recording jazz and rock, a life time of singing, including both college and professional a cappella groups, 8 years of full time writing and touring as a member of signed rock band FIXER, and countless hours spent in the studio writing, working with, and most importantly learning from producers such as Brian Howes (Hinder, Daughtry, David Cook), Jeff Tomei (Matchbox Twenty, Smashing Pumpkins), Jason Corsaro (Duran Duran, Madonna), and Gary Tole (Bon Jovi, Billy Joel).
JBrown left NYC and a chaotic life on the road and set up shop in Saratoga Springs in late '09. With his extensive background, JBrown has an understanding of instrumental arrangements, vocal harmonies, and drum patterns that are guaranteed to compliment each other, bringing out the full potential of every song. He does not hit record and sit back, but works with the artist on every part of the song, making sure that transitions make sense, that the melodies are strong, that the instrumental parts support the melodies, and that the harmonies create texture and atmosphere.
JBrown's production credits include three songs that were featured on MTV's The Hills - "Mixing In With My Blood", written and produced with FIXER, and "Can I Go Home" and "All I Need", written and produced with Jeremy Borer of Before Balance. In addition, two songs from FIXER's "Before The Sun" album were featured in the award winning independent film "One Night" by Michael Knowles and 7A Productions.
