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A special
thank you to John Brokaw and Zircon Skye Production
-- now known as Flower
Studios
 It
is with the utmost gratitude and respect that we announce the departure of
John Brokaw from Zircon Skye Production.
Producer/Engineer and
Recording Artist Greg Penny -- renowned the world over for his
Grammy® award winning work with artists such as k.d. lang,
Elton John, Cher, Paul Young, Eddie Reader, etc. -- has recently
acquired the studio.
The new name for our
facility is Flower Studios.
 While
we are sad to see John go, we acknowledge and
support his need to
move on, and are
thankful for the opportunity to have worked
with and gotten to know and love him as a friend. John has given his
all to the music industry and our community for the past 15 years and
for that we are eternally grateful.
Likewise, we
are excited for the future with Greg Penny and look forward to taking our
years of working together to new heights.
The first
projects under this new ownership include the debut release by the band
Hindu Kush
(Flower Records) and a new holiday CD by
Perla Batalla (Mechuda
Music) -- both coming soon.
Producer/Engineers Jeff Evans
and Ken Eros
will remain on board. Keep checking back for more announcements, new gear
and a new "B" room in the near future!
Until
then...
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Hindu Kush
returns to Flower Studios with Greg Penny to begin recording their debut
release
 Hindu Kush
have returned to Flower Studios with a vengeance; and this time
they are recording tracks for their long-awaited debut on Flower
Records.
Once again, veteran producer
Greg Penny (k.d. lang, Elton John, Rickie Lee Jones, Cher, Paul
Young...) is commanding the sessions with Flower Studios' Jeff
Evans and Ken Eros
at the board.
For more info about Hindu Kush, visit the
band's website at
www.myspace.com/hindukushojai
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Mary Steenburgen lends her talents to
the Stand Up To Cancer campaign
The Impossible
A poignant film by
Penelope Spheeris (Wayne's World, The Little Rascals)
that points to amazing examples in history when the impossible
became possible and asks us to make that same leap in defeating
cancer today.
The fabulously talented and
stunning actress Mary Steenburgen provided the voiceover narrative for
this important short film. Flower Studios producer/engineer
Ken Eros
handled the session.
Please make it a point to visit
the Stand
Up To Cancer website at for more information and ways to help fight this
disease. To view the film, follow the above link then select After Hours
-> More From The Show -> The Impossible.
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Kenny Davin Fine brings
Memphis to California
Kenny Davin Fine -- the
doctor is in.
The prolific "physician on a
mission of nutrition" is back in the studio with Flower Studios producers
Ken Eros
and
Jeff Evans cutting vocals for his new
Memphis soul record. Ken and Jeff have once again contributed their background
vocals and arrangement talents to this CD. No release date has been set.
For more information and
details, visit
www.kennydavinfine.com
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Kacey Cubero
returns to Flower Studios
 Just
out of college, Washington, DC-native Kacey Cubero moved to San
Diego, California with a suitcase and a guitar. A prolific songwriter,
performer, and studio musician, Kacey has collaborated with an array of
eminent singers and songwriters, including Jackson Browne, Louis
Johnson, and Gary Scruggs.
Following a solo tour to promote her CD Diamond in The Rough,
Kacey joined other artists on a Hard Rock Cafe tour, across the U.S. to
benefit underprivileged children, and ventured out on yet another solo
tour to support the U.S. troops in Japan. Around the same time, she found
herself fronting the all-star IRS Band. Included in the band were
Chris Slade (AC/DC, The Firm), Joey Molland (Badfinger),
Greg Douglass (Steve Miller Band, Van Morrison), Mario
Cippolina (Foreigner, Huey Lewis) and Terry Ilous (XYZ).
Kacey returns to Flower Studios with
Jeff Evans
at the board to continue development on her new CD Fill Your Cup --
slated for release in the fall of 2008.
For more information and details visit Kacey's website at
www.kaceycubero.com
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Hindu Kush
"Blood For Oil"
video now available at iTunes
The timely and relevant
video "Blood For Oil" by indie darlings
Hindu Kush has been taking
YouTube by storm.
Thanks to producer Greg
Penny and Flower Records, the video is now available in glorious
high-resolution format only at iTunes. The track was recorded and
the video shot here at Flower Studios.
Click here to preview and purchase "Blood For Oil"
For more info about Hindu Kush, visit their website at
www.myspace.com/hindukushojai
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You'll have to figure this one out
We're not at liberty to say
who was in here just yet, but this band sounds like candy that sticks to
your teeth being eaten by man's best friend.
And yes, the
tracks are awesome.
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Blues great Robben Ford
speaks the Truth
 On
his latest release
Truth, guitar legend Robben Ford speaks the truth...not
just with the sound of his guitar, but with the vision behind his music as
he ventures deep into the blues with aggressive licks, direct and honest
vocals and an uncharacteristic, yet appealing, rough edge.
Ken Eros contributed
vocal and guitar engineering on several tracks. The album received a Grammy®
nomination for "Best Contemporary Blues Album."
For more tour information
and details about Robben, visit
his website at
www.robbenford.com
Photograph by
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Legendary goth
band Bauhaus
records and mixes Go Away
White in just 18 days
 Bauhaus
slid fully formed from punk rock's womb in late 1978. Over the course of
four hot years, they unintentionally birthed a genre (Goth), moved on,
moved forward, and surged mercurial through the post-punk music scene,
tearing into tense, stark, dub bass-driven new-wave, T-Rex-esque glam, and
swirling, clattering, orchestral atmospherics, whilst churning it all into
a grand velvet, Rimbaudian hallucination. It was a wild, inspired,
enthralling sound. And it still is. Now there is a new record.
‘Go Away White’ was recorded in 18 days at Flower Studios
(previously Zircon Skye Production) in Ojai, with
singer Peter Murphy, bassist David J, guitarist Daniel Ash, and drummer
Kevin Haskins playing together as a band in one room, taking first takes
as final cuts. Flower Studios Engineers Ken Eros
and Jeff
Evans were at the board. (Jeff also restored and mixed the audio for the
band's two videos "Bela Lugosi's Dead" and Dark Entries" which were
recorded live at Coachella and are offered exclusively through iTunes.)
So, a new record but apparently a final one, the
band having decided to release it as a posthumous swan song. The band also
took an additional two weeks time to rehearse for their guest slot on the NIN tour.
‘Go Away White’ is everything you would
hope Bauhaus would deliver as their final statement. Fronted by a cover
photo of Bethesda, the angel of the healing waters in New York's Central
Park, the music inside is pure cathartic renovation, a psychedelic glimpse
into an enchanted moment. Aided in part by guitarist Daniel Ash's inspired
use of Jimi Hendrix's own personal
Colorsound wah wah pedal, gifted to him by Peter Murphy at the start
of the sessions, it is pop as much as it is experimental.
For more information
about Bauhaus and Go Away White, visit
www.bauhausmusik.com
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Flower Studios welcomes back
the artistry of Danny Click
 Danny
Click is a top-flight singer, songwriter and guitarist hailing from Texas by way
of northern California.
His guitar playing and songs
are exceptional and we are proud to have him back in the studio, along
with musical partner
Dave Sampson, to record the final vocals for his upcoming new
release (produced by the incomparable
Mark Goldenberg).
For more details about
Danny, and to keep tabs on the progress of his new album, visit
www.dannyclick.com
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Kenny Davin Fine returns to
Flower Studios Kenny Davin Fine
is both a doctor and a musician. He incorporates his passion and
professional singing, songwriting musical skills into his public health
mission.
"Everything that creates through me is for your health, happiness, and
hope." says Fine. His passion is for the music itself, and sharing the
meaningful messages of his songs. Kenny's lyrics reflect life's ups and
downs, found love and lost, mystical and spiritual pursuits, important
realities, or just having fun.
Flower Studios is happy to
welcome him back to the studio.
Visit Kenny Davin Fine's
website for more information:
www.kennydavinfine.com
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New release from The
Warm Guns
The Warm Guns'
Electric Mobile
Movies
is now available!
Flower Studios is pleased to announce that advance copies of
Electric Mobile Movies, the long-anticipated new album by The Warm Guns, are available at
CD Baby and
Digstation.com; where you may also purchase
individual singles (just like the old days).
Listen to 192kBps streaming audio of a
few songs below, or visit the band's page at CD Baby for a couple more songs,
but at a slightly lower audio resolution of 128kBps.
Check back for
details of iTunes availability, coming soon!
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Flower Studios is now on Myspace
Yes, we've joined the masses.
Flower Studios is now up and running on Myspace and would love to include you
as one of our friends.
-->> Click the image above,
or follow this link
to visit our page.
-->> If
you're already a member,
click here to "Add Us" immediately as your new Myspace friend.
It's that easy.
Being a friend of Flower Studios will
allow you access to special deals, services, and audio -- like a sampling of the upcoming
new release Electric Mobile Movies by The Warm Guns
-- available only to members of the Myspace community.
Keep checking back for more
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It's
Celtic Spring time in Ojai
Referred
to as the "Von Trapp family of Celtic music," and recently voted one of the top
acts in the finals of NBC’s America’s Got Talent, Celtic Spring is
a fiddle and dance band composed of the six Wood family siblings on fiddles and
in dance shoes, joined by their father on the traditional Irish drum, the
bodhran, and their mother on the piano.
The band is currently recording
their following-up CD (Flower Studios'
Jeff Evans is handling the
duties) with mixing and release slated for Spring of 2007.
Visit the official Celtic Spring
website
www.celticspringband.com for more
information, tour schedule and updates. |
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We've upgraded! |
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Digidesign
Unleashes Pro Tools 7.3
Software for All Platforms
Creativity-empowering
upgrades are built for speed
With new
music composition tools, customizable user
enhancements, and improved post production
workflows, Pro Tools 7.3 provides everything you need to record
and mix music and audio — and fuel your creativity.
This
version rocks! And yes... Flower Studios has it.
Contact us today and let us know how we can help you with your
next project. |
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Flower Studios
welcomes Perla Batalla
back to the studio
Celebrated singer/songwriter Perla Batalla
is back at Flower Studios preparing for her upcoming tour of Spain in 2007.
For a taste of what those lucky
folks have in store for them, watch her latest video
Gracias a la Vida (directed
and edited by the talented David Scheuber; music recorded
and mixed here at Flower Studios by
Ken Eros and
Jeff Evans).
You can also see Perla and her
tasty band performing the beautiful classic
Cucurrucucu Paloma (a fan
favorite) live in
Monterey, CA, by clicking the image below.
Visit Perla's website
www.perla.com for more song
samples and information.
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Path of Gold recording artist
Rebekah Eden (Edminster) celebrates recovery
Gifted vocalist
Rebekah Eden (Edminster)
is in the studio working on her latest track, Baghdad Is Never Far Away.
The piece, which is slated to be released in late October 2006, and forms the
cornerstone of a new album (to be released in 2007), celebrates her husband
Michael Weisskopf's journey of recovery from a life-threatening injury he
sustained in Baghdad.
Baghdad Is
Never Far Away was engineered and co-produced by
Ken Eros
and Jeff
Evans.
Featured
performers include celebrated uilleann piper
Eric Rigler (Bad Haggis)
and Mario Calire (Ozomatli,
The Wallflowers) on drums.
The track also offers
stellar contributions by session greats
Mark Goldenberg,
Kenny Edwards,
Bob Glaub,
and Billy Goodrum.
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The Electric
Prunes give us Feeback
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Pictured left to
right:
James Lowe and Mark Tulin laying down tracks for the new
Electric Prunes album "Feedback"
now available on Prune Twang Records. The band found Flower
Studios' Aviom
personal headphone monitoring system indispensable during the tracking sessions.
Visit
The Electric
Prunes official website for audio samples and CD purchases. |
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Dualtone Records
recording artist Brett Dennen breaks New Ground with KCRW's Chris
Douridas
Photo (left to
right): Jeff Evans (ZSP Engineer), Randy Schwartz (Drums), Kendal, Brett Dennen
(Voc. Gtr.), Chris Douridas (KCRW), Taras Prodaniuk (Bass), and Matt Demerritt
(Sax)
Follow this link
to hear
Brett Dennen recorded live @ ZSP on 7/29/06 for KCRW's "New Ground w/ Chris
Douridas"
Look for the release of Brett Dennen's new album "So Much More" on Dualtone
Records Sept. 19th 2006. Visit
www.brettdennen.com for more details.
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Brand new gear for our
clients
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Some may say
our new gear purchases are out of control!
But what's out of control about wanting
only the best for our clients and projects?
These cool pieces just in:
For more
recent upgrade details,
follow this
link! |
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Special thanks to "Analog"
Mike at
Analogman.com
for his help |
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The above 'Colorsound
Wah-Wah' pedal, once owned and used by
Jimi Hendrix,
was d.o.a. when it arrived here for a session with a top-secret legendary
band.
(More on that to come.)
Modifier circuit board (installed post-Jimi) was removed thanks to tips from
"Analog" Mike and now this pedal sings!
Visit
Analogman.com
for some awesome pedals and gear! |
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Flower Studios
has upgraded |
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In keeping with our mindset of bringing you the latest and greatest recording services and
tools, Flower Studios has just upgraded to the following:
Operating System:
Tiger v10.4.5 |
Pro Tools:
v7.1 |
Waves:
Diamond
and Surround 360° v5 -- including:
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Flower Studios congratulates
Greg Penny
and Red Grammer
on their recent GRAMMY®
nominations! |
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Flower
Studios
welcomes Singer/Songwriter
Jeff Frankel
We've recently inked a publishing deal for two of Jeff's amazing songs:
Twang Twister and I'm Coming Home.
We look forward to promoting the songs of this gifted musician, and
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New release by Perla Batalla
Grammy® nominated
Latin singing sensation Perla Batalla has just completed tracking
and mixing her latest album What I Did On My Summer Vacation
at Flower Studios with house engineers Ken Eros and Jeff Evans
at the board.
The compact disc is a new
twist on a collection of standards gathered from Argentina, Mexico, and
Cuba -- all sung in Spanish -- and performed with an incredible lineup of
musicians.
(Jimmy Haslip, Gilberto Gonzalez, David P. Jackson,
Jorge Strunz, Dave Palmer, and Peté Korpela to name
but a few.)
The CD is slated for release sometime in November of 2005. Visit the
artist's website at www.perla.com
for more details.
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Nordhoff High School gets a boost
The award
winning Nordhoff High School Music Department recently visited Flower
Studios to begin recording their new booster
compact discs -- and took advantage of our offsite remote recording
services as well! Follow
the links below to view a slideshow of the initial tracking sessions: Jazz
Band
Women's Choir
Symphonic Band
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"I've
recorded in studios all across the nation, and Flower Studios is my favorite."
-- Tom Kell, Singer/Songwriter
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