Recording in Istanbul, Turkey with Murat Ertel

We are now in Istanbul, Turkey! It’s a very cosmopolitan city, bridging eastern and western culture, and after recording in Venice, Italy, we went for the experience of a lifetime…visiting a place I have never been. Today we had an amazing recording session with a pro production team at Deneyevi Studio, and with world-renown Saz player, Murat Ertel, along with a gypsy percussion player, Umit Adakale. Um…awesome! What a super-cool mix of sound we are adding to our pop record!

Istanbul Recording

We are now in Istanbul, Turkey! It’s a very cosmopolitan city, bridging eastern and western culture, and after recording in Venice, Italy, we went for the experience of a lifetime…visiting a place I have never been. Today we had an amazing recording session with a pro production team at Deneyevi Studio, and with world-renown Saz player, Murat Ertel. Um…awesome!

“Untitled Heart” – Venice, Italy

While recording in Venice, Italy, for #ProjectELECTRICO we brought in Italian Singer, Andrea D’Amato, to duet with me, Kathleen Blackwell, on a song, called UNTITLED HEART. We had a lovely, Venetian dinner with Andrea, and explained the premise of UNTITLED HEART, which is in essence, writing the ending of a script for a love song. After dinner, we had Andrea improvise in Italian and sing from his heart…we captured great beauty in his voice. Bella!

Hang Drum Player in Venice, Italy

We are in Venice, Italy, tracking with Ronan Chris Murphy for my new record, ELECTRICO, and an Italian artist from Treviso, Andrea Gorgi Zuin. Everyone calls him ZU. He plays a Hang (hang drum) tuned at A=432 Hz, not the arbitrary A=440 that we know of in Western pop music today. A=432 Hz is known to be the natural sound of the earth, a frequency that vibrates more naturally in nature, and has healing, energetic powers.

Alberto Stocco – Italy

Alberto Stocco is a European drummer born in the Veneto Region of Italy. He soon began the study of drums and percussion, inspired by great musicians of the past and present such as Buddy Ritch, John Bonham, Jojo Mayer, and Benny Greb, who also knew in 2012 during the special one day workshop held at the Prosdocimi Recording Studio in Carmignano di Brenta (PD) – Italy.

Ronan Chris Murphy – Los Angeles

Record producer mixer: (Kathleen Blackwell, King Crimson, Steve Morse, Ulver, Terry Bozzio, Tony Levin…) Travel enthusiast, Ronan’s Italy Show Host, and all around wonderful guy. His life in recording has focused on the art and craft of making records, concerned more with creating great works that will stand the test of time, rather than chasing the latest fad. His creative approach to recording has been called for around the world. He has worked on three continents with artists from Dozens of different countries. His productions have received wide critical acclaim, been featured in films and television, won awards and hit the top ten around the world.