Category Archives: Recording
Wild West: Scratch Another Day (Selected Recordings 1980-1981)
It’s taken a while for this album to become available. Mastered at CutSnake in December 2009. Lots of history…
Analogue and digital
The attraction of tape and vinyl puzzles me. I’ve recorded to tape, and we had 4- and 8-track machines in the studio during the eighties. They were expensive [..]
Karifi CD released
Now available from CDBaby. Some percussion and vocals came out of Cut Snake.
Mac vs. PC
At Gearslutz: I wouldn’t even consider doing a joint audio project with somebody who was using windows, because they simply don’t get it, and wouldn’t be on the [..]
New CD from a band called Okapi: “Plenty”
Finally a new studio CD from the Okapi faction. (We’re using a slightly different name this time, given the musicians involved.) We started recording this back in 2007, [..]
Opening an Axis 90 (Apex 215)
This Chinese ribbon mic comes in various colours under various names. Here in Australia it’s available as part of the Legacy brand. The Legacy variation isn’t listed at [..]
New single from Okapi Guitars
The studio album we’ve been working on since finishing Haram Homebrew will be called Plenty. Should be out this year, but in the meantime, here’s the single at [..]
Kizungu 3: new song
Here’s a song from our semi-acoustic side project, Kizungu 3. Nhemamusasa -Kizungu 3 A Zimbabwean mbira song we learnt from Noble Mashawa, with a local lyrical twist.
A cut snake gathers no moss
Ah, the months have slipped past. What’s been going down at Cut Snake? At the end of January the senior members of Okapi Guitars recorded a handful of [..]
Karifi “Gome” CD
I did a little recording for this CD back in November 2008, mostly additional drums and vocals. Most of the work was done by Craig Tudman at Lorikeet [..]