2004.02.DD - Studio Expresso - Newsletter: The Village Buzz

The Village Buzz

2004 is off to a busy start at The Village Recording Studios in West Los Angeles, where the synergy of pop, rock, commercial and film music making continues hot. Recent sessions at The Village have included British indie rockers Travis and Starsailor, Rickie Lee Jones and the always-iconoclastic Randy Newman; all of the above were recording on Studio D’s Neve 88R console with engineer Jason Wormer for live broadcast on KCRW radio’s top-rated Morning Becomes Eclectic.

Also in Studio D was Rambo himself: Sylvester Stallone, along with John Cleese, Jack Black, Holly Hunter and William H. Macy, all recording voiceovers for the upcoming animated movie Automatons with producers Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson and engineer Wormer. In Studio B, Rick Springfield mixed for a new release with producer Ronnie Grinnel, engineer Maddy Spindel, and mascot Scooby! (See accompanying photo).

And more: Blues master Keb Mo’ hammered out pre-production for a new project with engineer Mark Johnson, singer/songwriter Poe cut tracks with engineer Jim Mitchell, the sultry Mya recorded a song for Shrek II, Janet Jackson recorded vocals with producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and Guns ‘N’ Roses camped out cutting new tracks with producer/engineer Caram Costanzo and Pro Tools engineer Eric Cadieux.

http://www.studioexpresso.com/Newsletters/feb04.htm

That was a newsletter containing news about the work in various studios. The information in this newsletter was most likely in regards to previous year (2003), because it is known from later sources that the band left the Village Studios in early 2004.

Later in 2004, the Village Studios website posted this picture:



Caption: Eric Caudieux [ProTools operator], Dan Monti [Assistant Engineer], Axl Rose and Caram Costanzo [Engineer]

And this picture of Buckethead:



https://web.archive.org/web/20040716023319/http://www.villagestudios.com/pages/photogallery/photogallery9/photogallery9.html