Winter 2013 - Happy New Year! Some very exciting changes in store for 2013. I moved into the Blue Room at the Magic Shop and am doing a few studio upgrades. Starting the new year with new gear! And some excellent CD and vinyl releases, including the Balkan Arts Series for Evergreene Music, which I restored from pristine, unplayed vinyl, and Love's A Dog, the newest release from brilliant singer/songwriter/actress Kim Taylor.

I haven't been this excited about a new album release in awhile. Scott Walker's Bish Bosch came out yesterday, and in a few minutes, I'm going to my local music store (the brilliantly curated Music Matters) to buy a copy. This will complete the Scott Walker trilogy. Of course I have copies of Tilt and The Drift, and I love listening to them as much as I love my early Walker Brothers records. I liked this Stereogum reviewer's comparison of Scott Walker's later recordings and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. I've read the first 50 pages of Gravity's Rainbow four or five times but never been able to finish the book. I get that, to some, these Scott Walker albums are similarly impenetrable. But, to me, the soundscapes and noises in Tilt, The Drift and Bish Bosch are so off the map, they completely engage and enrapture me precisely because they're otherworldly, transporting, unlike every other record.

My dream project: the complete Scott Walker archives.

Fall 2012 - This fall's been a feast of awesome mastering projects. A few highlights: The Cotton Floppy EP for Boston's Occurrence, featuring found vocal sounds from yard sale cassettes; a new record of Irish tunes for Chris Byrne's (Black 47) new band The Lost Tribe of Donegal; the debut album of Turkish metal band Gökböri; and another brilliant album of piano improvisations from the inimitable Boyd Lee Dunlop. Oh yeah, and then I had a baby. Welcome Margot Rosemary, born October 23!