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New Tape Op Video Series

by Geoff Stanfield

We are excited to announce Creative Recording With Tape Op. This video series covers a wide range of recording and mixing topics, concepts, and solutions. We look forward to sharing these conversations with you in the coming weeks and months, but...

Oct. 4, 2024

New Album from Caribou: Honey

by Geoff Stanfield

For his new release, Honey, Caribou's Dan Snaith (Tape Op #35, #105) wears his Detroit techno influences on his sleeve, and uses AI to explore and reimagine vocals as well as manipulate his voice, to create an album of dance tracks that...

Oct. 1, 2024

New Ancient Farmers Album: Seventh Heaven

by Geoff Stanfield

Steve Daubenspeck and Greg Freeman are Ancient Farmers and their new album is called Seventh Heaven. Greg Freeman was featured in Tape Op #1, and had previously recorded two albums for Tape Op founder Larry Crane when he was in the band Vomit...

Sept. 20, 2024

Herb Alpert: 50

by Geoff Stanfield

We interviewed Herb Alpert in Tape Op #140, and he hasn't slowed down since. He just released his 50th album, aptly titled 50. It is yet another prime example of the lounge pop genre he all but invented with The Tijuana Brass starting in the...

Sept. 20, 2024

New Music From Sarah Jarosz

by Geoff Stanfield

Singer, songwriter, and stringed instrument master, Sarah Jarosz, has just released a deluxe edition version of her criitically-acclaimed album, Polaroid Lovers. This edition features two new songs, "Wildflowers in the Sky" and "Just Like...

Sept. 15, 2024

New Nilüfer Yanya LP and videos

by Geoff Stanfield

Nilüfer Yanya’s LP Painless was one of my faves of 2022 with its blend of guitar based songwriting, her unique singing voice, and forward leaning production and arrangements. I’m pretty over the Roland Jazz Chorus guitar tones, but...

Sept. 10, 2024

R.I.P. Herbie Flowers 1938-2024

by Geoff Stanfield

Bass player Herbie Flowers had a front row seat for some of the most iconic recordings of the late sixties and seventies. He played on a staggering number of classic albums from artists such as David Bowie, Elton John, George Harrison, Harry...

Sept. 8, 2024

Alan Sparhawk Releases White Roses, My God

by Geoff Stanfield

The husband and wife partnership of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker will forever be remembered for their work in the band Low. Their remarkable vocal harmonies always told a story of a long and storied relationship that went far beyond the music and...

Aug. 30, 2024

New Music From Tycho: Infinite Health

by Geoff Stanfield

Bay Area native Scott Hansen, a.k.a. Tycho (Tape Op #123), has just released his sixth album, Infinite Health on Mom+Pop Records/Ninja Tune.  Fans familiar with Tycho will hear Infinite Health as a logical progression in a sequence of...

Aug. 23, 2024

New Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: Woodland

by Geoff Stanfield

Woodland is the name of Gillian Welch and David Rawling’s studio in Nashville, and it’s also the name of their new album. On Woodland, the duo continue to show their deep connection as collaborators. The album has a wide open sound that...

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