
The first sessions that I used on ARC involved Nick McBride. We did some recording with Mike Bartolomei at his “one chook” studio. I played bass on my little “Voce” organ module and I overdubbed the rest on my home computer. The other sessions where recorded at Electric ave studios and the engineer was Phil Punch. The drummers at Electric Ave where Felix Bloxsom and Andrew Gander with Brett Hirst and Phil Stack. I played some duets with the drummers on Clayton Doley’s Hammond C3 which lives at Phil’s studio. Track 2 “ARC 1” was supposed to be incorporated into “ARC 2” but was so funny that it seemed to stand up better by itself.
I wanted to have a live feel but have the opportunity to overdub. We played live in the studio and included improvisations but left space for further solos. All the Synthesizer studios where overdubbed. I used plenty of different keyboards, including:
Fender Rhodes, Yamaha C2 acoustic grand, Hammond C3, Yamaha QY70, OBerheim matrix 1000, Oberheim Xpander and Voce V5 organ module.
James Muller http://www.jamesmuller.com/ played some great solos which we recorded at my house.
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