Faith, Patience……. 혹은 Older? 그저 들어보자
원하는 것을 하나하나 치밀하게 골라 단지 컨서트 수준의 하이-파이 사운드를 경험하고자 컨서트 투어제작을 방문하고 있는 사람들이 있다. 많지는 않지만 생각만큼 적지도 않다. 조지 마이클(George Michael) 심포니카 투어(Symphonica tour)의 '하우스 사운드'를 믹싱하는 게리 브래드쇼의 경우 조지 마이클 팬들이 유럽 콘서트 홀에서 듣는 가장 [more]
원하는 것을 하나하나 치밀하게 골라 단지 컨서트 수준의 하이-파이 사운드를 경험하고자 컨서트 투어제작을 방문하고 있는 사람들이 있다. 많지는 않지만 생각만큼 적지도 않다. 조지 마이클(George Michael) 심포니카 투어(Symphonica tour)의 '하우스 사운드'를 믹싱하는 게리 브래드쇼의 경우 조지 마이클 팬들이 유럽 콘서트 홀에서 듣는 가장 [more]
Nick Warren is one of those methodical sound engineers; he looks at the task, notes all the details, and then maps out how he will assemble the sound. For the Roxy Music tour he was presented with som [more]
It’s a pleasure to find a contemporary hard rock band unafraid to include a harmonica to drive the vocals; and drive they do. Volbeat’s Front of House engineer Mads Mikkelsen is contending with a band [more]
Ryan Knutson, co-founder of Brown Note Productions, Inc. is in the rather enviable position of being able to claim the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre as his local venue. Stir into the mix a six year t [more]
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With a career in sound spanning well over two decades, Paul Dieter is now enjoying himself mixing for one of rock and roll’s more enduring, if understated, legends, Jackson Browne. “I started mixing l [more]
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Lighter than air, Lily Allen somehow seems to float above her songs; her girlish voice a tantalising wisp on the airwaves. That lightness and charm belies her work as wordsmith, hers is a young innoce [more]
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The allusion to the French Revolution is well made. With its heady mix of heroism and a very human sense of common purpose it works at many levels for a band that likes to wears its heart on its sleev [more]
Matt Peskie has been mixing front of house for Jars of Clay on and off since 2006. Mixing is a job that has taken him to some of the wider corners of the world; Brazil, Tokyo and China to name but a f [more]
Elton John has made a speciality of taking his music on the 'road less travelled' of late; since the end of the nineties when he began a tour of England's stately homes, to more recent years, when he [more]
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At sixty-two Neil Young has weathered a few brickbats in his time; Lynyrd Skynyrd took a light hearted pop in the 70's; more recently Young was the first North American to publicly question USA Presid [more]
For a band that gets a lot of exposure on MOR stations Scouting for Girls manage to sustain a pop credibility that sees them fill halls around the UK with hoards of adoring girls. Their recent tour sa [more]
Whatever your views on the curtailment of the Spice Girls tour, there's no denying that the legs in North America and UK have been overwhelmingly well received. Who can blame band members for being ti [more]
Easily the most anticipated tour in a decade, George Michael's highly acclaimed performances just before Christmas 06 were universally rewarded by the European press with glowing reviews, not least fo [more]
It has been a painful rearguard action that has seen record companies deny the evidence of their eyes and acknowledge that downloading has destroyed their business model and it's time they found a new [more]
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Five bands a night is tough by any measure, make that five bands from the dark side of metal and you can begin to imagine the levels demanded of the system. But that is not the only pressure. "Some da [more]
"You've got to feel sorry for the English football team," said a tongue in cheek Roger Daltrey, "having to play for ninety minutes in all that heat." This from a man old enough to be their grandfather [more]
Westlife: No, not Yul Bryner playing a cowboy automaton in a nihilistic vision of the future, that was Westworld. This is Westlife the band, another weird vision of the future perhaps, and similarly e [more]
"This is a first for the band," said John Tinline of Encore. "For the first time ever this is not going to be a synth' show, Erasure will all use real musical instruments." Encore has been providing s [more]
Maybe with the prospect of Hillary Clinton sitting in the Oval office some day; Americans everywhere are flocking to see a story about a woman grasping the ultimate political office in a nation of the [more]
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To make this years summer a little hotter Tchibo, the German coffee company, invited three legendary soul ladies to form a comeback on stages in Hamburg, Munich and Oberhausen. Whitney Houston was of [more]
[Translate to 7: Korean:] It is their first live tour for thirteen years. Kraftwerk, positively the most influential German musical formation ever, are back on the road again. Not only synthesizer b [more]