Simon has been collaborating with Gruff Rhys on a remix for Real World Records’ fantastic 9 Bach.
Their latest release Tincian is a beautiful album encompassing many musical styles, but with a strong identity of its own. You can listen to the remix here.
Read more about 9Bach at 9bach.com and @9bach on Twitter.
Gruff Rhys was also recording at Soundworks recently for a new short film “Dad” which is being made for S4C and the European Broadcast Union.
Gruff took a day out of his busy touring schedule to work with Simon Jones in Studio 1 to create a number of music cues for the film as well as a theme for the end credit roller. The film is set on the beaches and in the dunes of North Gower and Gruff composed some lovely sparse guitar themes that perfectly complement the landscape and the drama. We captured Gruff’s guitar and voice with vintage U87s through our new Neve 1073 mic pres.
We’ve made what is potentially our craziest investment to date in purchasing a beautiful Studer A800 24 track from a celebrity owner with very low hours. It’s fully serviced and ready to roll, even sync able to video via Microlynx. We also have 24 tracks of Dolby SR available. We can now provide that unmistakable analogue sound.
We’ve also installed some lovely Neve 1073 Mic amps. These compliment our Neumann U87, U47 and TLM 170 vocal mics beautifully. Some new outboard also in the shape of the UBK Fatso compressor and Empirical Labs Lil Freq analogue EQ.