David Baron - The Velvet Inks Of Space
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The album was designed for Star Gazing. One can look at the sky and slowly observe the moon and stars. The album also works for internal memory star-gazing: hazily recalling events from your life.
Renowned record producer from New York David Baron features on 25 platinum records and 6 Lenny Kravitz albums and for Bat For Lashes 'The Bride' he produced mixed and played all synths. Also co-writing and producing Ninth for Peter Murphy (Bauhaus). Baron has a vast modular synthesizer collection and a home Sun Mountain studio where The Lumineers recorded their BRIGHTSIDE album.
Recording Technique:
Entanglement was a traditional recording of a Steinway Grand piano and string quartet. This was then processed through a Loupé pedal - and manipulated. As the piece evolves layers come back - filtered and modulated. Everything is connected. Velvet Inks of Space is the Steinway D from 1954 mic’d fairly closely with a pair of tube Schoeps M222 Microphones. The room was mic’d with an Sontronics Apollo 2 stereo ribbon microphone. Trees of Ice combines a Felted and Unfelted piano through the loupé and a delay pedal called the Delay Llama extreme. Recorded during a huge ice storm where all the trees around me looked like they were covered with diamonds. Jinhi Points to the Moon uses a Celesta made in France in the late 1800s. This piece also uses Steinway B accents, Hammond, and Hologram pedal.
Instruments
Steinway Grand Piano Model D 1954
Steinway Upright 1894
Yamaha U1 Upright
Celesta
Hammond C3 (late 1950s)
Credits
Entanglement: David Baron: Steinway D Grand Piano, Electronics, and Arrangement, Olivier Manchon: Violin, Viola, Alex Waterman: Cello
Trees of Ice: David Baron: Steinway Upright 1894, Yamaha U1 Upright and Electronics
Velvet Inks of Space: David Baron: Steinway D Grand Piano
Jinhi Points to the Moon: David Baron: Celesta, Steinway B, Hammond C3, Electronics
Composed, Recorded, Produced, and Mixed by David Baron
Recorded at Sun Mountain Studios, Boiceville, NY
Mastered by: Taylor Duepree for 12k Mastering
Artwork by A.J. Yorio for Lightning Horse Industries
All compositions by David Baron ASCAP, Published by Outerworld Records ASCAP