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Ray Moore : Moore on Moore: Reflections on the Studio Life, Columbia Records (1957-1995)

ISSUE #136
Cover for Issue 136
Mar 2020

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In 2017, one of my best friends, Craig Alvin [Tape Op #137], kept texting me about a record he was engineering. He was saying how amazing the process was, and how awesome the results were. The album turned out to be Kacey Musgraves' Golden Hour, which went on to be a platinum selling, award-winning album that even her own record label had never expected. Dan...

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Tim Oliver is the "Senior Consulting Engineer" at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios [Tape Op #63] in the English countryside. With over 40 years of experience, Oliver has worked with a who's who of British rock, including Robert Plant, Brian Eno [#85], New Order, Happy Mondays, Pete Townshend, and The Stone Roses, plus Ireland's U2, Van Morrison, and Sinéad...