Creative Scotland : Youth Music Initiative : Demo Fund

North Edinburgh Arts (NEA) is pleased to announce our involvement in Creative Scotland's Youth Music Initiative Demo Fund. The project was ran in conjunction with : NEA, Red Dog Music, Graphite North and of course Creative Scotland.

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lockleaf : One Way Ticket

Our resident engineer; Patrick decided to flex his creative muscle in the studio inbetween bands over the past month and came up with this rather natty 2 step / garage number. We hope you enjoy it :)

Reubam : No Go

Edinburgh Indie Folksters; Reubam were in the Studio recording a demo with us recently as part of Creative Scotland's Youth Music Initiative Demo Fund. We were really taken with the guys' great attitude and musicianship and hope you will love hearing their work !

Tom Vevers : The Things We Thought We Were

As Part of Creative Scotland's Youth Music Initiative Demo Fund, North Edinburgh Arts have been busy working with 5 promising young musicians and bands to record a demo.

This is one of the tracks we recorded with North Berwick's Tom Vevers and we are sure you will agree it's a bit special.

Tears in Heaven : Eric Clapton Cover

Another of Andy V's great cover-songs recorded and engineered at NEAC.
This time Eric Clapton gets the treatment. It's the raw and atmospheric sound that really made us take a closer listen to this, it's an honest - warts and all recording done in a single take. Thanks to Andy, John and Wicket for allowing us to share their amazing work.

Andy V and Friends Cover : Wonderwall

Local Musician Andy V and Friends have been using the Studio to make a short-notice CD. Due to very limited timescales, all of the songs were bashed out in one take and mixed overnight. The Results were great, even with the extra pressure of the Situation. Here is the Band's take on classic Oasis song : Wonderwall, please use the player above if you would like to have a listen.

Anthony Blake Records the Works of TS Eliot

Studio Regular; Anthony Blake has been recording the Poems of TS Eliot. Feel free to use the player above to have a listen.

Youth Music Initiative Demo Fund

The Youth Music Initiative Demo Fund is a worthwhile project aiming to make music and recording accessible to young people. This video shows various artists explaining how it works and why it benefits young musicians.

Jurassic 5's producer and DJ Nu-Mark on Maschine

Jurassic 5 are a legendary US Hip Hop Band known for loose fitting; hyper funky rhythms and witty, intelligent rhymes. Here their producer and DJ talks about Native Instruments Maschine, which is an innovative tool which affords digital producers more hands on flexibility and live artists more scope to incorporate computer based music into their shows.

Studio Test August 2010

We thought it would be a good idea to put the studio through it's paces recently and have been recording some of the results. This track was created to test out drum kit sounds recorded into pro-tools along with a Roland TR-505 and Korg Ms2000r running through a line 6 space echo modeller and RAK distortion pedal. This is quite a simple, off the cuff demonstration using quite an underground style of music, we hope to show off different styles as we go along to give people a feel for what is possible and stir those creative juices !

Staff Picks W/E 22/08/10

We thought it might be fun to share with you the music the staff in the centre have been feeling from week to week, so here is our first top 10 picks for Week ending 22/08.

The Smiths - Heaven knows I'm miserable now.
Kennickie - Punka
Forest City Lover - Orphans
Amy MacDonald - Footballers Wife
Beruit - Nauntes
Girls Aloud - Sound of the Underground
Kings of Leon - Be Somebody
Hudson Mohawke - Fuse
Nancy Sinatra - These boots are made for walking
Second Hand Machine Band - Don't

A.G.E Blake records Gurdjieff's 'All and Everything'

In June / July 2010, the Music Studio played host to the Scholar Anthony Blake, who has been recording readings from Gurdjieff's Opus 'All and Everything'.

Anthony has worked all over the world, and it may be of interest to music fans, that his work has inspired people such as Robert Fripp (King Crimson, FSOL, The Orb).

Anthony is also a direct descendant of The English Poet and Painter : William Blake.

Audio from Desi Girls 2009 show.

In Autumn 2009 Sikh Sanjog and Jann Pechan put together a show involving a number of woman of varying ages to put on a show celebrating equality, respect and cultural values.

The show was a great success, with a number of girls gaining credit towards their Duke of Edinburgh Awards and audiences delighted by the music, dance and drama provided by the show.

This track was created by Tigerstyle and the girls, who wrote the lyrics, rap and poem along with Polly Phillips. The Track was engineered and mastered at Graphite North and performed along with a full dance routine at the show.