Kerry “Krucial” Brothers is Alicia Keys’ right-hand man — her longtime production and business partner in KrucialKeys Enterprises and The Oven Studios, and one of the Executive Producers on The Element on Freedom. As with As I Am, Brothers and Chief Engineer Ann Mincieli form the start-to-finish production nucleus that Read more...
Manny Marroquin came out from sunny Cali to mix Alicia Keys’ new record in-house at The Oven. This was his second such Long Island residency, having mixed Keys’ As I Am in similar fashion in the summer of ’07.
Just in the last year and change, Marroquin’s mixed Kanye West’s Read more...
Tony Maserati swooped down to Long Island from his upstate, NY studio to lend a hand in mixing some of the 20 songs produced as part of Alicia Keys’ The Element of Freedom. As deadlines approached, Keys’ chief engineer and album coordinator Ann Mincieli made the game-time decision to get Read more...
Ann Mincieli is Alicia Keys’ recording engineer, album coordinator, studio designer and sonic adventure guide. She is the master facilitator — the Oven is Keys’ studio and Mincieli is its pilot light.
In her 10 years engineering records with Keys, Mincieli has spanned the sonic universe with the artist. When Read more...
Dave Kutch, the intrepid mastering engineer who setup a temporary mastering suite in the live room at The Oven to master Alicia Keys’ As I Am, has done it all again for her new record, The Element of Freedom.
Since As I Am, Kutch has opened his own NYC facility, Read more...
PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN: SonicScoop recently connected with salt-of-the-earth producer/engineer Craig Dreyer who’s been working on a new record with singer/songwriter Brenda Kahn at his Mighty Toad Studios in Brooklyn. Excited by the prospect of a new record from Kahn, who’s been on hiatus since her ’99 record Hunger, we Read more...
GREENWICH VILLAGE, MANHATTAN: NYU’s Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions at the Steinhardt School just cut the ribbon on a new 7,500-sq-ft recording studio and music production/educational complex. SonicScoop was there on opening day, and toured the new “James L. Dolan Music Recording Studio,” as John Scofield & ensemble Read more...
MIDTOWN WEST, MANHATTAN: Scott Hull officially launched his new venture, Masterdisk Indie, this week.
The acclaimed mastering engineer — who came up at Masterdisk, later opened Scott Hull Mastering, and returned to Masterdisk as its owner in ’08 — has a major agenda in rolling out this new “indie” mastering Read more...
PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN: At SonicScoop, we love things that work reel good. And we would certainly put DubFiler in that category. Released from the mad mind of Corey H. Maass, this Brooklyn-based file-sharing service just might take over the world and vanquish all its inhabitants.
OK, it will probably never Read more...
PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN: “I went to Disney World last year, and I thought Tomorrowland was so cool,” explains an enthusiastic Robert Schneider, lead singer/songwriter of The Apples in stereo. He’s showing me an illustration of a retro-futuristic society, one of those Atomic Age renderings of an urban skyway predicting Read more...
