NICK BLAGONA (Born Nicolai Nicoliavich Blagonadegny, May 22, 1945, died tonight.
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Cootes Paradise Completing 2019 EP at Psychotropic Studio w/ Marcone (Halo Studio)
July, 2019 Lily Sazz and Cootes Paradise, with Nick in one chair and (the ever caring and talented engineer) Amy King in the other, accomplish recording 7 bedtracks at Grant Avenue Studio in one day. Throughout August and September every member of Cootes Paradise joined Nick and Lily here at Psychotropic Studio for overdubs of …
TONGUE FU MIXES begin this week, March 2014!
Andy Sarnoff has produced a live-off-the-floor 8-song collection of Tongue Fu’s latest output and Lou Molinaro and the lads are bringing the project in, starting this first week in March for several guitar overdubs and then mixing. This item should have been sent out almost 6 years ago. Thanks gents for the confidence in me. …
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COOTES PARADISE
With the quintuple bypass surgery securely behind me, I’m back to work and this summer some of the finest “A” players around this end of Lake Ontario, have gathered in the form of Lily Sazz-Fayter’s ‘Cootes Paradise’.Lily and I chatted in March this year, and decided to collaborate on a Live-Off-The-Floor concept album project that …
The Browntasauras Record Label paired with Mastering Tone Guru
Browntasauras Records and I (here at Psychotropic Mastering Lab) have recently finalized a mutually sweet arrangement in which all Browntasauras Records recording Artists’ projects will be mastered by me. It makes perfect sense. Brownman and I have been working together for almost 20 years now, having been introduced to each other by Ritesh Das of …
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In the works…
I’ve started working with a band from the 1970s which is resurfacing at the behest of fans. The band is “WARPIG” and Rick Donmoyer contacted me to help him track and mix material the various members of the band have created since WARPIG broke up over 30 years ago. To date we are nearing completion …
The ‘Uncommon Journey’ Syrian Refugee Project
January 2016. Local hero, Frank Koren called to ask me if I would be interested in donating my services to a project he’d devised to help the Syrian Refugees coming to the Golden Horseshoe area. Frank had asked every musician he knows to contribute a song to the project. The response was unanimously positive and …
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Gail Obediah’s Album “Let The Eagle Fly”
For 3 years, this fine lady has been waiting on a miracle to complete her life’s work, “Let The Eagle Fly”. This past autumn we began by helping Gail collect all the media from various studios scattered in the Golden Horseshoe. We were able to retrieve all the tracks and compile, re-record and assemble this …
Who’s been in the Studio this year so far?
Well I know it’s been since the fall of last year since we last updated you all. No complaints. I’m on it now. The autumn and winter of 2015-2016 was filled with the re-treatment of Jim Italiano’s latest project, “Like A Rolling Stone”. Jim faithfully came, reworked, re-recorded, remixed and finally I mastered this album …
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What A Summer!
Well it really has been an excellent summer working together with JAMES ALPHONSE recording and mixing his first self-titled solo EP. And he’s already procured a Synch Broker who is placing one track on a TV show. Check https://james-alphonse.bandcamp.com/album/james-alphonse. It makes perfect sense for this talented young singer/songwriter to be getting action from the industry …