Brooklyn's Fluxivity Adds Tracking Room, Hosts The Abrams Brothers, Rob Wasserman
Williamsburg’s Fluxivity, the Neve 8048-equipped studio owned/operated by technician and custom tube equipment manufacturer Nat Priest, now has a tracking room. Check out the Fluxivity website for more information.
Recent sessions at Fluxivity have included The Abrams Brothers, a folk/bluegrass trio working on their new release, Northern Redemption. The album’s first single, “Mermaid Town,” was produced for video release by Chris Brown (Bourbon Tabernacle Choir, The Barenaked Ladies), with engineering at Fluxivity by Brian Thorn. The video can be viewed on CMT.com
Musician/composers Gordon Minette and Mark Grandfield were in the studio working on their project of standards, with a band that included Tony Garnier, Marc Ribot, and Danny Kortchmar. Engineer/producer Matt Shane mixed five songs for the upcoming release at Fluxivity.
And bass player Rob Wasserman (Lou Reed, Bob Weir) recorded a song for his next CD, “My Name Is New York,” to be released soon. A collaborative project with The Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archive, it features Rob in duet with an incredible cast of singers interpreting unreleased Woody Guthrie lyrics. Rob was accompanied by Tony Trishka on banjo. The session was produced by Steve Rosenthal and engineered by Brian Thorn.