Karen O, Courtney Love In Stratosphere
Spike Jonze’s film adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are, due out this October, features original music by Karen O and NYC-based film score composer Carter Burwell.
As reported in Rolling Stone, Karen O composed music for the soundtrack and co-produced it with Tom Biller (Kanye West, Jon Brion), enlisting collaborators performing as “Karen O and the Kids,” including Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Brian Chase and Nick Zinner, Deerhunter‘s Bradford Cox and The Dead Weather/Raconteurs‘ Jack Lawrence among others, as well as an actual “kids” choir. Karen O and Biller mixed tracks for the film at NYC’s Stratosphere Sound. Listen to “All Is Love,” one of the Karen O and the Kids tunes from the movie.
Courtney Love checked into Stratosphere recently as well to record vocals, presumably for her next record, Nobody’s Daughter, due out in January. She worked with Stratosphere’s in-house engineer Arjun Agerwala (Office, Motion City Soundtrack).
Paul Bryan and Amy Correia in a string session at Stratosphere for Correia's third album, Majesty. (Photo courtesy of Paul Bryan)
NYC-based singer/songwriter Nick Howard recorded his, Bridging The Gap, at Stratosphere, with Robert “Void” Caprio (David Cook, Run DMC, Push Play) producing and engineering. Caprio is a record producer/engineer and FOH engineer — he’s been out on the road this summer with Ryan Star and Boyce Avenue.
Another local singer/songwriter, Amy Correia, brought a string quartet into Stratosphere to play on her upcoming record, which Paul Bryan (Aimee Mann, Lucinda Williams) is producing and engineering.
And, in other Stratosphere sessions, Adam Franklin (formerly of Swervedriver) tracked songs for his new band, The Bolts of Melody, with Agerwala engineering, The Five O’Clock Heroes returned for some additional work in Studio A with producer/engineer Gus Oberg, as did Russian-American trio Fedorov, Ribot & Medeski (Leonid Fedorov, Marc Ribot and John Medeski) who mixed with Stratosphere chief engineer Geoff Sanoff.
Stratosphere recently picked up a new Mapex Saturn Series drum kit. Check out the studio’s full gear list here.