Have been doing cool stuff!

Finished the Colossa production. We recorded the last vocals and percussion and after that I went straight into the mixing. Remco did some awesome vocal performances; sometimes reminding me of Chris Cornell back in his powerfull days.
It's a great rock album that touches different flavours. If you enjoy music from bands like Triggerfinger, Dead Weather, Soundgarden, QOTSA, Raconteurs, Brant Bjork and the Bros, etc etc,  you will for sure appreciate Colossa. It's an awesome record containing a variety of phat energy bursts but also an coustic song featuring a string quartet! We taped some great and interesting guitartones, fat basses and big roomy drums. Singer/guitarist Remco Eijssen knows how to write catchy rockin' songs, and the boys know how to make em rock.
The album is scheduled to be released in january by Goomah/Excelsior/V2.


Teamed up with Bertolf for the TV-sound when he was performing the stunnin' song "Patty Lane" live on the "MaDiWoDoVrijdagshow" hosted by the famous Paul de Leeuw.

Right now Bertolf and band are on tour, so check em out in a venue near you since they are an awesome live band.


I had some interesting meetings with a couple of recordlabels; resulting in some cool new projects comming up ;)
Will keep you posted.

Patrick le Duc's debut album is finally released op PIAS records! I mixed it before the summer, and now it's out there. Hopefull it will end up in a lot of homes all across the country. Right now Patrick and band are touring as support act for famous Dutch act Bløf.
Patrick is a Dutch singer-songwriter with roots in Counting Crows, Tim Christensen, Gemma Hayes and a touch of Soundgarden. The album has been recorded with Paskal Jakobsen and Peter Slager of Bløf & drummer Martijn Bosman (probably the best drummer in this country!).
Some of the songs on the album "Square Moods" remind me of the energy & passion of the Tragically Hip. I should also mention that Patrick is a gifted singer with a beautifull voice!
You can order the album @Bol.com or buy it at your favorite record store.

I mixed two songs for a brand new upcomming star; Stefany June. She is a young German singer-songwriter with a fresh electro pop. Her characteristic voice, self-penned songs and the eclectic sound choices give it a very own & original sound!

Not famous yet, but I see a nice future ahead!

Giel

Got up early today (actually it was 4:10 at night!), because I had to do a radiomix for Patrick Le Duc performing live at Giel Beelen's populair morning show @ Radio 3FM.
I mixed Patrick's album, wich will hopefully be released pretty soon.

You can enjoy the live-performance of his first single "Bright Lights on the Radio" here;


Singer/guitarist Remco from the band Colossa returned from his trip in the US. On his first day back he and the boys had to support Band of Skulls at an Amsterdam gig. NICE!
Tomorrow we will continue the recording for their stunnin' debut album!
[will keep you posted]

Rockin'

I have been involved in a couple of nice projects recently!
(some of them have to remain secret for now...)

Finished working on the demo-cd for photographer Bullet-Ray his new band. Mixes turned out very nice!
They are still not sure what the new bandname will be, so I will call them BZN untill they come up with something better ;-)

Here's a video of Ray recording a guitarsolo:

Kinkobra's single has been released (finally), and was picked up instantly by radiostation 538; daily airplay!

This rockin' single is called "I'll die 4 thin"
I hope we can start recording their debut album this fall.


While in the middle of the cd-production of Colossa, we had to take a vacation-break. But as soon as all members return to earth we will continue recording vocals for their debut album.
Mixing is scheduled for early october. In the meantime you can you can visit one of their impressive livegigs and have a look at a video impression of the recordings so far:

Hopefully Patrick Le Duc's great debut album will be released soon. In the meantime Patrick came up with the idea to record a special live-session later this month. I look foreward to recording & mixing it.

Patrick LeDuc / KinKobra / Barbarella / Bertolf / Arthur Adam

Allright,

I was involved in a lot of great projects lately!

First of all I want to tell you about this great new talent; Patrick LeDuc. Patrick is a Dutch singer-songwriter with roots in Counting Crows, Tim Christensen, Gemma Hayes and a bit of Soundgarden. 
A stunning debut has been recorded with Paskal Jakobsen and Peter Slager of the famous Dutch band BLØF & drummer Martijn Bosman (probably the best drummer in this country!).

The album "Square Moods" will be released in Fall 2010 & it contains great songs. Some of the songs remind me of the energy & passion featured on "Selling The Drama" by Live. Besides that I also should mention that Patrick is a gifted singer with a beautifull voice!

Recorded, produced & mixed a single called "I'll die 4 thin" for the band KinKobra. 
It's an a$$-kickin' rock track! The band won a band-competition on radio 538, and this will certainly result in airplay.

This trio is really rockin' and I hope we will be able to make an album in the future.

Another a$$-kickin' band I worked with is Barbarella.

They are recording an album right now, and asked me to mix a song that was already finished. The song is called "I am the Wolf" and will be used for promotional purposes.

If I had to describe their music I would say Stoner rock combined with Placebo & a touch of Soulwax.

The rest of the albumtracks will be recorded during the next months and they expect to be ready with the album at the end of the summer. A release date is not scheduled yet. We'll keep you posted.

I also teamed up with Bertolf fot some radio & TV promo gigs. I did th livemixes in shows like; Pauw & Witteman, De Wereld Draait Door, Giel, Tros Muziekcafe, Q-music, Evers Staat Op, BNN That's Live, Bring it On etc etc.

Besides all that I am also still enhancing my new mix&overdub studio in Soest (((GieSound)))

all... and for all you suckers that did not listen Arthur Adam's album "Awake" yet... YOU SHOULD!! Everyone who loves music by artists like Damien Rice, Jeff Buckley, Sufjan Stevens, Sebadoh, The Police and Motorpsycho should really check it out since I am pretty damn sure you will love it!!

G