During our Masters Program our Sound class together with Stephan Koethe (our Recording and Mixing teacher) organized a collaborative workshop on "band production" together with the Jazz-Institute Berlin. The topic of the workshop was how to combine a retro sound with modern production techniques. The plan was to record songs written in the style of motown mixed with modern pop with a technical mixture of modern and retro elements.
I had the chance to contribute a piece I wrote especially for this workshop called "Where did our days go" in the style of The Surpremes and helped organizing the musicians. Lajos, a fellow student, also contributed a piece which was called "Warming my heart" in the style of Otis Redding.
If you want to listen to my song, you can do it on soundcloud while reading further:
The song is about breaking up and thinking of the good times, not willing to accept it is over - as topics like that were typical during the motown era. I wrote the lyrics together with Zoe Mercury, a close friend of mine.
The recording took place in the Georg-Neumann hall of the Jazz-Institute and we had a huge team to get the recordings done in 3 days.
Our musical line-up was:
Band:
Vocals - the wonderful Katharina Grischkowski
Bass - Kalle Enkelmann
Drums - Friedemann Pruß
Keys - Joschka Osske
Band:
Vocals - the wonderful Katharina Grischkowski
Bass - Kalle Enkelmann
Drums - Friedemann Pruß
Keys - Joschka Osske
Guitar - Daniil Zverkhanovsky
Brass:
Tenor Sax - Fabia Mantwill
Baritone Sax - Constance Tschatschanidse
Trumpet - Justus Haupt
Trombone - Anne Dau
Tenor Sax - Fabia Mantwill
Baritone Sax - Constance Tschatschanidse
Trumpet - Justus Haupt
Trombone - Anne Dau
Everyone of them did an awesome job and we are really grateful and happy with the result!
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| Gert supervising the rehearsal (upper Photo), the technical crew setting up the mics (Photo in the middle) and Stephan adjusting the desk during the recording (lower Photo) |
The recordings were technically done collaboratively and everyone in the engineer crew did his best:
Pro Tools Operator - Vensan Mazmanian
Head Engineer (Console) - Julius Middendorff
Head Engineer and Orga - Stephan Köthe
Producer/Composer - Lajos Wienkamp
Producer/Composer - Marie Havemann
Technician/Producer - Randolf Ehret
Technician/Producer - Christoph Kozic
Technician - Christoph Dela Chevallerie
Studio Engineer - Christoph Undisz
Studio Manager - Gert Müller
Gert also did an awesome job helping us with the Brass Arrangement!
After the recording was finished and some time passed by, I edited and mixed the song at home (in the box) with as much retro suitable plug-ins as possible.
A huge thank you to everyone that has been involved in doing this workshop! It has been such an awesome experience to work with such skilled musicians and engineers for days on a song that I wrote. Thank you!
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