![]() ![]() When Oz Noy toured through Asia in the Summer of 2014, he burned up stages with the expert help of Etienne Mbappe on bass and Dave Weckl on drums - but it was only due to Weckl’s prowess as an audio engineer that the tour crystallized into the 2015 release, Asian Twistz.ĭrummer Dave Weckl mixes his own drums live, often recording the results for reference in Pro Tools. Read on for stories, strategies, and advice from Healy and Noy that can help you make your accidental album a not-so-accidental success. There can be many steps between playing an outstanding live concert (that someone just happens to be recording) and releasing the subsequent live album, polished and ready for the world. Of course, the journey from live performance to a box of 1,000 finished CDs isn’t normally so simple. ![]() You and your band don’t have to worry about playing a take for the ages, or really anything other than delivering a great live performance. Perhaps the biggest advantage of recording what might become an album, without being aware that you’re doing so, is that any red-light pressure on the performers is nonexistent. Both live albums resulted from recordings that were not originally intended for release, but turned out to contain the controlled magic and sonic integrity to fill the role perfectly. On the other hand, sometimes great albums are made without the artists even realizing they’re doing it.Ĭase in point, Asian Twistz, by renowned New York guitarist and composer Oz Noy, and Live at Kilbourn Hall, by Grammy-nominated composer (and Conan O’Brien keyboardist) Scott Healy. In this post, we study Oz Noy and Scott Healy – two cases where an unintended live tracking session turned into a live album releaseĪlbums often come to life after great amounts of planning, practice, budgeting, and coordination - plus the orchestrated spontaneity of the recorded performance itself. ![]()
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