“Radio Tranquila” is the name of the new single from the Band New Madrid. And for the last few months we have been working on the production of this new track .

After a few months of rehearsals we were ready to go to the recording studio (The Music Lab), to track drums, re-amp guitars and to listen to some strange Spanish phrases by Lou Gimenez (owner – engineer).

The first thing we did was tracking the drums. Axel (lead singer and drummer) have a very unique drum set: no hi-hat, no toms… and of course no throne! just Kick, two snares (one piccolo) a Big and Deep Floor tom, and two crash Cymbals . Producing his parts was very interesting since he also performs the drums in a very “vocal” oriented way.

I particularly like this approach to their music, and I think we got an excellent performance printed that night.

Also the same day, we tracked Anthony on bass. I wanted to get the natural feel they already had by recording both at the same time.

Anthony had very good bass lines in general, and I didn’t think it was necessary to change most of what he had worked on.

After spending some time listening to all the takes and choosing the right parts we were ready for Guitars!
Erick (Axel’s brother) was ready for this moment. We did a couple of sessions trying out different ideas. At the end we got a bunch of thick guitars parts and an very spontaneous guitar solo that brought climax to the song.

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Next step, vocals… coming soon!