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City: MINNEAPOLIS
State: Minnesota
Country: US
Signup Date: 8/22/2006

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Friday, February 06, 2009 

Category: Music

Over the last year or so I recorded a series of live in-studio recordings for our local college radio station (radiok.org). These were all setup at my studio, recorded live, and torn down in 3 hours or less and the mixdowns were never more than an hour or so for a session! The are unmastered as well obviously...

Here are the artists/track titles from the sample in order:

1. Shearwater - Rooks
2. Giant Sand - Increment of Love
3. School of Seven Bells - My Cabal
4. Daniel Johnston - Silly Love
5. Spaghetti Western String Company - Beacon Waltz
6. Basia Bulat - Untitled
7. Doomtree - Seamstress
8. Dosh - Improv 1
9. STNNNG - Slow Water
10. Strut and Shock - ?
11. Doomtree - Traveling Dunktank
12. Andrew Broder/Fog - What's Up Freaks?
13. Shearwater - I Was a Cloud
14. Giant sand - Without a Word
15. Spaghetti Western String company - The Woods
16. To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie - Long Arms
17. Basia Bulat - Before i Knew
18. Daniel Johnston - American Dream

You can download/stream these and many more from the radio station website - Multimedia - Radio K as well as link to the artist websites, etc.

These were a ton of fun to do and the artists were great. I hope people
enjoy them. If anyone has any specific questions or comments do post them. I plan on posting another studio sampler soon.


2:30 AM 
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 

Category: Music

This Friday is the CD Release show for a band I've been playing in for quite some time - we used to be called Unguided Missile, and now we've just shortened it to Unguided. I recorded it here at Crazy Beast.

The show is at the 7th Street Entry, and we are happy to be playing with a couple of good friends, Roma di Luna (who I am also playing with now, whose CD I recorded/produced and you should check out) and Eliza Blue (CD Release which I also recorded and should be checked out as well)

Unguided plays at 9:30, Eliza Blue at 10:30, and Roma di Luna (with full band) at 11:30.

Friday, Oct 12, 9 pm
7th Street Entry
$6
Unguided, Eliza Blue, Roma di Luna


Hope to see you there.

7:57 PM 
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 

Current mood:Proud
Category: Music

The new Andrew Bird record came out yesterday and has been doing smashingly well - glowing reviews in Spin, Newsweek, NPR, etc...

Now, hopefully most of the people who saw fit to download the leaked tracks over the last few months will actually *buy* it.

I co-produced the disc with Andrew, recorded all of 8 tracks, and overdubs/vocals on two others (Armchair, Heretics) at my studio Crazy Beast, here in Minneapolis. Tom Herbers recorded two tracks (Plasticities and Spare-Ohs) at his beautiful Third Ear Studio (also here in Mpls) and basic tracks of another (Armchair). Greg Norman at Electrical recorded the - feeling of inadaquecy inducing - basic tracks on Heretics, and Dan Dietrich at Wall2Wall in Chicago recorded piano and piz on Scythians.

Brent Sigmuth and I mixed 8 of the tracks on the Neve at Pachyderm Studios here in Minnesota, Tom Herbers mixed his tracks at Third Ear, and David Boucher re-mixed Dark Matter and Armchairs in LA and I can certainly see why he is an in-demand mixer!

Some great musicians here in Minneapolis played a huge role in making this happen - Martin Dosh (http://www.myspace.com/doshanticon) played all sort of amazing things and instruments like he always does, Haley Bonar (http://www.myspace.com/haleybonar) sings on 4 tracks, Chris Morrissey (http://www.myspace.com/morrisseychris) plays bass on 3 or tracks, and the multi-talented Jeremy Ylvisaker plays guitar (acoustic, electric and noise) on one track and is now in his touring "band", and I play guitar on Dark Matter and Fiery Crash. Andrew plays/sings/whistles everything else, and he truly is a musician and human of astounding skills.

I'm really, really proud of it. It was amazing to work with so many talented, serious but fun, musicians and engineers. Really a once-in-a-lifetime (but hopefully not) kind of deal...

You can listen to samples here (http://myspace.com/andrewbird) and read reviews here: http://www.metacritic.com/music/arti...chairapocrypha
or any number of other places...

Cheers and thanks for indulging. Now go buy it, dammit!!
Ben Durrant

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Friday, November 10, 2006 
I'd much rather quote other folks than try to write about my own crud, so here are some nice, recent reviews blurbs about projects I've recorded, mixed, produced, what have you...


Roma di Luna
http://www.startribune.com/919/story/799559.html
"Together, the happy couple offer a less-than-happy mix of haunting dirges and candlelight ballads on their seven-song CD, "Face of My Friends," right behind Haley Bonar's (soon-to-be-reissued) "Lure the Fox" as this year's prettiest local disc."

http://citypages.com/alist/detail.asp?EID=146412
"The surprise of this newer old-timey duo, with fiddle-playing wife Channy Moon, is her voice, a chalky and broken-sounding instrument that's as arresting in its way as Jolie Holland's—another sign that the weird-roots scene here and in Duluth is among the country's richest."

http://pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=2811
"Guitar (courtesy of Alexei) and violin (courtesy of Channy) form the bedrock of the sound, and additional instrumental colors are kept to an absolute minimum: a tambourine here, a bass there and that's pretty much it. The simplicity of the arrangements lets the melodies shine through. Too many roots groups, in my opinioin, swathe their sound in glitz and production, obscuring the downhome appeal of the genre..."


Dosh
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/39045/Dosh_The_Lost_Take
Not coincidentally, Dosh's best-sounding and most thoroughly composed album yet...

http://lunapark6.com/?p=2348
Dosh's The Lost Take is a stunning album that you should fall immediately in love with.

http://www.startribune.com/1371/story/753565.html
On Tuesday, he released his third and best full-length Dosh album, "The Lost Take"...

Martin has also been central in the making of Andrew's (Bird) new CD, much of which was recorded at Ben Durrant's studio in northeast Minneapolis (where some of "The Lost Take" was also laid).

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/544
Mysterious?? Huh?
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006 

Current mood:  stressed
Category: Music
Currently listening:
Return to Cookie Mountain (with Bonus Tracks)
By TV on the Radio
Release date: 12 September, 2006
12:15 AM 
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