Bernard Butler "I met Nigel when I was working on the McAlmont and Butler album in 1995. I booked an engineer who didn't turn up on the first day and Nigel spent the whole day wandering around telling me 'I can do this what do you want someone else for'. And he did."
Phil Selway (Radiohead) "He gets amazing sounds and gets them very quickly so that allows you to have a good momentum to the session. Beyond that he does have an overview so he can pick out elements of good performances, marry all those together and just keep everything moving."
Fran Healy (Travis) "I remember so many times when I've done a vocal take and I think 'that's the one!' and Nigel will be behind the glass going 'nah, do it again'. When we recorded the Humpty Dumpty Love Song I recorded the vocal for it live and put this mad effect on the vocal, I couldn't hear what I was doing it was so effected. When I eventually did what I perceived to be the worst take Nigel's like 'brilliant!'."
Beck "I think he's one of these rare people who's incredibly technical and has incredible perfectionist streak in him but he's also reckless too. Sometimes he'd record the whole song in two tracks so he can't go back and mix it. He works dangerously he's not afraid to take a chance which I like."
With this profile I' trying to collect informations, news and everything else about the great producer Nigel Godrich.
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Nigel Godrich (born in the UK in 1971) is a recording engineer and record producer. He is best known for his work with Radiohead. He has also worked as engineer, producer or mixer with Paul McCartney, Travis, Beck, Pavement, Air, Neil Finn, Natalie Imbruglia, Silver Sun, The Sundays, The Divine Comedy, U2, The Beta Band, and R.E.M. Godrich productions are generally known for their layered sound, often featuring experimental "swoosh" transitions between tracks.
25/01/09 Ronnie Learns Music Production from Nigel Godrich
17/06/08 Nigel on recording Nude.
In the latest issue of The Word, you’ll find a nice article on recording Radiohead’s ‘Nude’. As well all know, ‘Nude’ was already out there for over 10 years once it finally was released on ‘In Rainbows’ last year.
Nigel Godrich tells all about the several stages of recording the track in The Word’s ‘Music Producers Issue’. Apparently ‘Nude’ included in the trial sessions after The Bends was recorded, but the band wasn’t satisfied. Nigel: “They liked it, it was deemed a great success. But then for some reason everyone went off it. We tried to record it a couple more times for OK Computer, probably about three times for Kid A and another three times for Hail To The Thief. But somehow it had gone.”
“We had a little holiday from each other. The band tried to record on their own, which – surprise, surprise – didn’t work. Then they tried working with someone else, which also didn’t work. During that time I went to see Colin, the bass player, and he played me a rough live version of Nude that they’d done in rehearsals. He’d written his new bassline, which transformed it from something very straight into something that had much more of a rhythmic flow. The chorus had been taken out – very Radiohead! – and there was this new vocal break and this new end section. It sounded like they were somehow terrified playing it, but it sounded OK. We recorded it three times and the final one – which we did in their house and then overdubbed in Covent Garden – is what you hear today.”
Nigel Godrich posted on Dead Air Space a video that showed the playback of a reel of assembled tape snippets, which were cut out from certain mixes. The reel contains 20 fragments from the finished recordings of 6 songs: "Open Pick", "All I Need", "Down Is The New Up", "Arpeggi" and "Bangers 'n Mash".
The latest album from Travis, The Boy With No Name is out now in CD, Vinyl and digital formats.
The Boy With No Name:
01: 3 Times & You Lose
02: Selfish Jean
03: Closer
04: Big Chair
05: Battleships
06: Eyes Wide Open
07: My Eyes
08: One Night
09: Under The Moonlight
10: Out In Space
11: Colder
12: New Amsterdam
N.B. The UK version also includes 2 bonus tracks.
Nigel produced and engineered the hidden track Sailing Away, he also did additional production on tracks 03/05/07/10.
These days, music television seems to play more so-called reality shows than it does music. And that bothers Nigel Godrich. He's the award-winning producer behind bands like Radiohead, Travis and Beck. And now he wants to save the music video from a commercial death. To do that, he's created a show called From the Basement. But you won't find it on television. This show's only available on the Web.
[Listen the full interview at NPR]
14/12/06 Nigel Godrich Talks "From the Basement", Radiohead
"The whole point is to get people who are having their moment...and get a definitive record of what they're doing."
As previously reported, producer Nigel Godrich's "From the Basement"-- a sort-of television show that's on the Internet and thus has nothing to do with television at all-- will be available for download December 18 on www.fromthebasement.tv (okay, almost nothing to do with TV) and iTunes. For a small fee viewers may scoop up the show, which presents live performances in intimate settings without all the bells and whistles that usually hamper these things. Thom Yorke, the White Stripes, and Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid all play the debut episode, and if the trailer's any indication, it looks pretty effing fantastic.
The follow-up episode (due in February) will showcase performances by Beck and Jamie Lidell, and Godrich has high hopes for the series. Taking time out from working on the new Radiohead record, Godrich told Pitchfork in a recent interview, "We've got a lot of people that I'd like to see on the show [that] we're talking to. [But] I don't want to mention their names. Obviously, I'm really interested to capture some really iconic, bigger names-- really the whole point is to get people who are having their moment, to try and get a definitive record of what they're doing. [Read the full interview at Pitchfork]
Matthew Solarski and Amy Phillips
16/11/06 Air Composes A 'Pocket Symphony'
French rock/electronica duo Air will release its next album, "Pocket Symphony," March 6 via Astralwerks. The 12-track set boasts vocals from Pulp's Jarvis Cocker and the Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon, as well as group members J.B. Dunckel and Nicolas Godin. It was produced by longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich.
Several tracks feature Asian classical instruments such as the Koto and the shamisen, which Godin learned from a Japanese master. "It's another direction, for sure," Dunckel told Billboard.com in June. "It's different, but it's Air. We like to change all the time. If we don't change our sound, we'll be dead. People who like our music like to discover new things. They're curious. They have some cultural musical background also, so they want to be surprised."
"Pocket Symphony" is the follow-up to 2004's "Talkie Walkie," which debuted at No. 2 on Billboard's Top Electronic Albums chart and has sold 161,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Air will tour Europe beginning in mid-March and hit the states in early May. Festivals in Europe and Japan are on tap for the summer, followed by additional fall dates worldwide.
of course i love your work, nigel. groundbreaking, to say the least. i do believe it has been enormously responsible for the dramatic increase in quality production styles you can find across today's indie music landscape as well. i know i tried to emulate much of what you do, in my own somewhat limited self-produced way, on my new album "life like sad music", right down to trying to incorporate some of your famous swoosh track transitions into my work. so thank you for being such an inspiration to music lovers everywhere, and... have a super happy birthday mr. godrich.
Thanks for the friendship Nigel Godrich. Let us know if you have a favorite Japanese band or artist you’d like to see interviewed.
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Many blessings, happiness, love, peace and many more to you.
Have a great day and party.
I've got my RAdiohead ticket for the concert in March 22nd , São Paulo. I'm very happy, anxious, emotional... I can't wait to see Radiohead for the first time! If you can check out my pics so you will see the ticket.
Dear Nigel Godrich, <br /><br />Hope life is grand & beautiful!?<br /><br />New songs out now!!! "10 Feet Up" & "Our Falling Snow".<br />Dance and have great fun!<br /><br /><br /><br />Love, <br />Brian Batz / SLEEP PARTY PEOPLE
Добрый день, спешу поделиться новостью!<br /><br />Подробности и ссылки на альбом находятся в моём блоге:<br />Details about an album: <br />http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=384721346&blogId=472761764<br /><br />on a site "kroogi.com" possibility Downloads of an album "VITA" is realised to look here: http://avgusteishaya.kroogi.com/<br /> <br />Спасибо за понимание и поддержку,<br />Удачи!<br />Юрий.<br />
I'm so freaking hungry! I can't wait to go eat some din din. how's life? it sucks here, but i'm here for a lil bit more. are you still loving your job? i'm not, it's crazy boring. you should come down for a concert this summer... least i been making some side money, filling out those surveys online, giving my opinions n stuff. it aint been doing too bad, bout an extra 200 bucks or so a week, and the work is pretty easy, just like answering questions and giving my opinions on different things. heh, i just finished one, and it was about what freakin toothpaste do i like to use, lol. anyways, you should try it, and lemme know how it does for yah. i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is: www. workfor200 .com cya!
La sensibilidad femenina, lo lúdico, la creatividad y la música volverán a ser protagonistas...
Elsa Manelphe, Camila Fernández, Mariana Etchepare, Daniela Vázquez, Camila Sapín, Jessie Young, Flavia Quartino, Cata Ferrand, Manu Da Silveira y Ana Luisa Millot son algunas de las djs que van a estar pinchando.
Más información http://www.myspace.com/rondademujeres.
These days, music television seems to play more so-called reality shows than it does music. And that bothers Nigel Godrich. He's the award-winning producer behind bands like Radiohead, Travis and Beck. And now he wants to save the music video from a commercial death. To do that, he's created a show called From the Basement. But you won't find it on television. This show's only available on the Web.
French rock/electronica duo Air will release its next album, "Pocket Symphony," March 6 via Astralwerks. The 12-track set boasts vocals from Pulp's Jarvis Cocker and the Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon, as well as group members J.B. Dunckel and Nicolas Godin. It was produced by longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich.
