February may be the shortest month of the year, but one week in February has been chock-full of news related to Manifold Recording! Feb 8: Rolling Stone breaks the news that Sarah Shook and the Disarmers have a new album coming out: Years. Produced, recorded and mixed by Ian Schreier, …
Colin Wolfe: Producer-in-Residence
How many musicians have worked with both Dr. Dre and Michael Jackson? Madonna and Björk? George Clinton and Ben Folds? Colin Wolfe spans the musical spectrum as a player, writer, and producer. And he’s spending nearly a month as an Artist-In-Residence at UNCSA, culminating in a performance at Moogfest 2017. …
Manifold Recording goes Remote!
We are now offering a new dimension to the services we offer at Manifold Recording: remote recording!
The Nile Project: Artists in Residence
The Nile Project is a group of musicians from countries that are touched by the waters of the Nile River. The Nile Project’s mission is to raise awareness of issues that threaten the rich ecosystem and vital resources that the Nile River provides to millions of people in Africa. They do …
HBO Film Scoring Session
What began as a busy January in 2017 has morphed into a high-profile February. Just as we were finishing up work on our first three sessions of the year, I received a call from Branford Marsalis asking about studio availability on short notice for a film scoring project. The calendar …
Recording a Chamber Orchestra
As told last month, Richard Weiss received a commission to create a full-length ballet based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and composer J Mark Scearce was commissioned to write the score. Both the ballet (produced and performed by Carolina Ballet) and the music (performed by the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle) were enthusiastically received and reviewed both at …
Autumn Nicholas Tracking Sessions
Autumn Nicholas, an award-winning singer-song writer from Fayetteville North Carolina, is recording her first studio album at Manifold Recording! We spent the first week of February recording scratch tracks. Each week thereafter we added layers, recording drums and percussion, bass, piano, organ, guitars, and finally lead vocals. We will mix and …
My Three Sons release at AbstractLogix.com
Just in time for the holiday gift-giving season, AbstractLogix is now selling the latest release from the rock/funk fusion group My 3 Sons. Titled Who’s We?, the album was recorded and mixed at Manifold Recording this summer by Ian Schreier. Recorded live with minimal overdubs to capture the dynamics and tone of a high-energy My 3 …
UNCSA Chrysalis Ensembles
This past weekend, Manifold Recording hosted four ensembles of the Chrysalis Chamber Music Institute from UNC School of the Arts (UNCSA): the Giannini String Quartet, the Liminal Phase wind quintet, the Chrysalis Brass Quintet, and an ad hoc piano/violin duet. The goal of the session was to give these developing musicians an …
Sarah Shook and the Disarmers — Sidelong
Sarah Shook came to Manifold Recording by way of an Intern from Italy, Mario Bianchi, but the story of Sidelong, Sarah’s first full-length album, has a longer history. And one that makes this album release that much sweeter. A recent feature in INDY Week tells the backstory of a Sarah’s journey, from …