"How to" Series - Keys Recording

Dov Manski, the New York based pianist and member of the World Collective stayed at Rosa Luna Studios for two days of recording Daniel's upcoming album. In the video below, Daniel explains how he recorded him playing the Wurlitzer (with the help of Trevor Bahnson's makeshift isolation booth) as well as a clip of Dov ripping it up. Enjoy.

Haydn Cole's Demo Release

Haydn Cole, a main participant of the 1088 crew has just recently released a three song demo displaying his craft as a songwriter. These songs have an uncommon intensity that have made all kinds of people laugh and cry (literally - I am witness to these experiments).The first song was recorded at the first Rosa Luna Studios in Cambridge by Daniel Wright and the other two were recorded at Sanctum Studio by Angelo Caputo. Listen to Haydn.
Also noteworthy is Daniel's piece for the cover art.

"How to" Series - Bass Recording

Bassist Haggai Cohen Milo explains the setup to record his acoustic bass for Daniel's second World Collective Album.

"How to" Series - Guitar Recording

On the following video, Daniel explains the process of recording guitar for his second World Collective Album.

Some History

The inevitable happens. One day Dan started recording at his old apartment in Cambridge and soon we were involved in some challenging projects. This was the beginning of Rosa Luna Studios (named after Dan's aesthetic roommate).

In addition to our own projects, we recorded music for singer/songwriters Gina Cimmelli, Kyrie Stern and Ethan Glazer as well as special effects for Haggai Cohen Milo's score for the horror movie "Spam".

Here is a video of the last...

Beginnings

Daniel has started working on his second album with a series of experiments.
The first one tackles the complicated task that is to record a drum set outside a studio. In this video you can see Dan and Mike Calabrese playing 2 songs while recording with one large diaphragm microphone placed carefully in "the sweet spot".

Daniel Wright: The World Collective - Debut Album

This album, released in August of 2008, consumed the better part of my year. It has been the biggest, funnest, scariest, most expensive, and successful undertaking of my life and everyone in the neighborhood is on it: Patrick Brusil, Haggai Cohen Milo, Matan Chapnizka, Dov Manski, Mike Calabrese, Mateo Lugo, Haydn Cole, Ethan Glazer, Alec Spiegelman, Itamar Doari, Yoni Etzion, Phoebe Lin, Nathan Burck, Manuel Jimenez, Alexandra Gomez, Theresa Flaminio, Emily Greene, Alonso Zayas Bazan, Belén Muñoz.

The album was Co-Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Manuel Jimenez, Mastered at the Mastering Lab by Doug Sax assisted by Eric Boulanger, and the album artwork is by my dear friend Matlena Harula.

Satellites

Close to 1088 are a couple of satellite apartments.
The first one (pic above) is home to Saxophonist Matan Chapnizka a member of Daniel Wright's World Collective and The Secret Music Project, to drummer Alonso Zayas Bazan who plays in my jazz trio Moontit and the rock band Delta Wave as well as the previous location of Post Futurism Labs (Delta Wave's music studio currently relocating).

The second one has housed me for more than 2 years.

and my instruments...


with the new addition of a 1975 Dobro

Introductions

This blog is about creation, the process of creation. In the last three years of our lives, the people we now call family away from home have intertwined their talents in order to produce the kind of music that reaches into our souls and grounds us together to propel and materialize the dreams we dream.
With this page we intend to show the ideas, the events, the conversations, the resources and the beautiful people that make it happen. In this way, we can document the insides of a whole that would otherwise be completely unreachable.
So join us in our world, our struggle, our victories and our failures.

WHY 1088 BOYLSTON?

Because it is where Haydn Cole and Daniel Wright live today and so it has become a new hub for expression. We get together and drink, eat, sleep, practice and record music in this apartment.