From TechCrunch.com If you haven’t heard of Kutiman yet you’re about a week late on the latest music sensation to be incubated on the Web. Ophir Kutiel, aka Kutiman, is an Israeli musician and producer that released a project titled Thru You on the Web seven days ago. It has since garnered over a million [...] Continue Reading »
New CD from The Monthlies
From The Entertainment Magazine The Monthlies are nearly ready to release their first album in March, 2009 during their appearance at SXSW in Austin, TX… Read the entire article here. Continue Reading »
Disk cutting tutorial
This is a very cool video from Mix magazine showing an engineer cutting an actual disk. The studio is Infrasonic Sound which offers this quick tutorial on the analog disk cutting process. Check it out here. Continue Reading »
Walking on Glass
I spent the last several weeks working on some new tracks in the studio. The latest track “Walking on Glass” was a great opportunity to play the Turkish Oud on a track. I would usually use the Arabic Oud which has a slightly deeper tone but I dropped the tone of the Turkish down a [...] Continue Reading »
The Lion of Afghanistan
Recently I researched and purchased an instrument called a Rubab which is a lute like instrument from Afghanistan. The Rubab is mainly used by Afghan, Pashtun, Kashmiri, and Iranian Kurdish classical musicians. The Rubab is known as “the lion of instruments” and is one of the two national instruments of Afghanistan. It has [...] Continue Reading »