Check out this intense studio performance by Brooklynite Trixie Whitley with Brian Blade.
Amazing vocalist, amazing drummer, but who is that burly guy dancing awkwardly beside them? That’s legendary musician/producer Daniel Lanois. The man has worked with everyone from Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, and Peter Gabriel to Ron Sexsmith and Emmylou Harris.
“He started his production career working in his own studio with his brother Bob Lanois in the basement of their mother’s Ancaster, Ontario home.”
Perfect.
Our film THE SKYLARK is very much about the value of the artist as producer. Daniel Lanois is a shining example. Last month, USA Today had a great article about how more and more musicians are producing their own work using little more than a Mac.
“Veteran producer Tony Berg (Bob Dylan, Squeeze, Aimee Mann) says 80% of the acts he works with now record music at home, with software such as Logic and ProTools.”
What a wonderful world… Check out the rest of the article here.
-blake
