Jeff Touzeau

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The Most Recent stories by Jeff Touzeau

• Lost Boy  March 2008

  Joe Boyd and John Wood Offer an Exclusive Look Inside Nick Drake’s Legendary Studio Sessions

• Robbers on High Street: Tensions in the Groove  January 2008

  “In the beginning, we had a lot of big ideas,” Robbers on High Street’s lead singer and principal writer Ben Trokan recalls of the composition process for Grand Animals [New Line]. “I was writing arrangements on piano for other ...

• Opening The Doors  October 2007

  Summer, 1966, Los Angeles — a young Bruce Botnick is living his dream in a 10' x 20' room, jam-packed with recording equipment, and, at most hours of the night, slightly disheveled band members. Life is good, because life is all about ...

• Sonic Resurrection!  October 2007 Even at the so-called peak of the band’s career, the Bongos never really attained the commercial success they deserved. But, like the foundations of Roman ruins upon which cathedrals were built, remnants of what the Bongos created are ...
• Fields  July 2007

  It would be a tad unrealistic to assume that Fields could have delivered a more impressive debut album than the recently released Everything Last Winter — an offering packed full of sounds that defy the band’s relative youth, ...

• Jimmy Douglass and Timbaland  July 2007

  Unless you have been living your life mixing in a closet for the last few years, you’ve probably heard the handiwork of Jimmy Douglass — the engineer extraordinaire behind so many albums and singles on the Billboard chart lately that ...

• An Evening With Joe Chiccarelli  July 2007

  Question: What do you get when you combine the brilliant songwriting of James Mercer, the fresh, riveting performances of The Shins, and the one and only Joe Chiccarelli?
  Answer: ...

• Robin Morton  July 2007

  Just south of Edinburgh, Scotland (in what’s affectionately referred to as “The Old Country”), one’s ears need only follow a few bagpipes before being led to Robin Morton engineering and producing Scottish folk-oriented albums for his ...

• Ian Catt  June 2007

  Ian Catt — musician, producer, creative consul — has been churning out productions regularly described as mood-evoking, ambient, and imaginative from his South London Cat Music studio for the greater part of 20 years. Working closely ...

• David Castell: Behind the board with Blue October  June 2007

  Currently, Blue October’s Foiled is making a big splash on a national level, becoming a certified gold record in recent months and affording the band extensive touring opportunities with the likes of the Rolling Stones — successes ...