Somewhere around 1985 I saw an ad in a San Francisco paper: “WANTED: wood-floor work in exchange for recording equipment.” Wonder! Brief disbelief? Reader & Reading material (re?)UNITE. A drive to the hills of Berkeley, California to meet the infamous Dan Alexander. Before boxes of WINE stacked HIGH (a recent BARTER: booze to record BLUES[…]
The CON/SOUL: QUAD EIGHT (original name: westar) (pre-mitsubishi); shipped in early eighties to Abbey Road Studios. Sent back to factory for “cosmetic reasons.” Served its time there as a ‘test’ console. Did some time on the East Coast then a stint at a recording school in Tijeras, NM. Located by console finder extraordinaire, Dan Alexander; brought[…]
Recorded & Mixed at the Barn Recorder by David Costanza. Mastered by John Golden at Golden Mastering. Gregg Turner was original and co-founding member of LA punk-rock legends The Angry Samoans (where he was veteran co-singer/songwriter and guitarist for over 15 years). This, his first solo CD, exudes a similar type of knucklehead humor[…]
2012: Tracks 1-5; 13-15, recorded & mixed by David Costanza at the Barn Recorder, Questa. 15 songs adapted from Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal, originally written for Theater Oobleck’s cantastoria cycle “Baudelaire In A Box.” credits released October 31, 2012 Tracks 6-12 recorded and mixed by John Szymanski in assorted living & dining[…]
2009: Recorded by Mike Stanioch at the Barn Recorder, Questa, NM. Mixed by David Costanza & Anne Speroni at the Barn Recorder, Questa, NM. Mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Service. “Journalists talk about Giant Sand & Calexico as if the desert informs & sculpts their recorded output, but I’d like to point[…]
2006: Recorded at Studio (B) Questa, NM by Jeff Davenport, Jamie Smith & David Costanza. Mixed at Studio (B) Questa, NM by David Costanza & Larry Yes. Mastered by Ben Wright at Sound Construction, NM Best of 2005, WESTWORD, Denver, CO. From its remote base of operations near Questa, New Mexico, thirty miles north[…]