Chris Brett Music Productions

20/08/2024

Happy Bday to me from me. Yeah Baby!

31/07/2024

Took the plunge today and ordered VSX Headphones and modelling software. Looking forward to this new tech… I spend a lot of time on my headphones anyway.

19/07/2024

Heading out to Victoria Beach to mix Summerwinds once again...just guessing but it's my 12th festival as TD? Great bunch of Manitoba Talent supported by the fantastic production of Audio Works Production Services Ltd and Sonic Backline Rentals.
Headlining Friday Night The Sean Taylor Band and Saturday closes out with Winnipeg's own Harlequin.

12/07/2024

Some great new music from this year’s Concert for Bill. Pink Floyd’s Us and Them.

A cover of the Pink Floyd song "Us and Them". This was performed live at the West End Cultural Centre on June 10 2024 at the "Concert for Bill" a fundraiser...

03/07/2024

6 months in the making. Kudos to Geoffrey Owen, Keith McLeod and Chris Maxfield for adding their incredible talents to this extraordinary piece of music.
Firth of Fifth is covered by myself and my very talented friends.

29/06/2024

Just watched a fantastic documentary Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple. What an incredible musician, producer, songwriter, and actor. A truly inspiring life story. Very well-done film.

11/06/2024

We've had a fantastic time over the last month rehearsing and preparing for the 4th annual "Concert for Bill" which has been an annual fundraiser for 1JustCity, a wonderful inner-city org that supports our city's less fortunate. Geoffrey's father Bill was a well-known organist and choir director and tireless volunteer in the inner city and we put on this show to honour his memory and raise funds for the same organizations he had always supported. We have drawn together a wonderfully diverse group of musicians for this show. including myself, Geoffrey Owens, Paul Balcain, Rick Yarish, Tod Hughs, Kiva Louise Šímová, Jay Tayor, Chris MAMA Bauer - AuOH, Clair Tang, Jamie Buckboro, Chris Ghidoni Music, Tim Goodwin, The Welsh Choir, Jaime Carrasco. I'm no doubt missing a few names here but I can assure you this will be a fantastic night of music hosted by the West End Cultural Centre. Wednesday night June 12, doors open at 7PM for an 8PM show. Please join us!

22/05/2024

Hey Facebook Audio/Computer Geek Hive! Wonder if anyone has some advice on buying a powered hub. I have a 2020 M1 MacBook Air and need to plug in a USB A audio Interface (Behringer XR18) and an external Lacie 5TB Rugged USB4 drive. For some reason the Apple dongle won’t power the drive and the Interface at the same time…

16/05/2024

I met Steve Albini's studio partner Bob Weston back in the early 90's while running Crash Test Dummies God of Thunder Studios and although this story is not about Bob, he introduced me to a whole different philosophy of recording. The first day of tracking the unnamed Wpg punk band played their first take of the song and you could hear the band over the talkback mic asking “hey Bob, what did you think of that?”
Bob put down his morning latte that Brad Roberts had brewed up for him and put down the morning paper he was reading while the band was recording their first take and leaned over the console and punched the talkback button. “Why on earth would it concern you what I thought of your performance? I just met you. It’s your song and you’re the band playing the song, I think you’d probably be the best judge of your performance It’s your art, your work, it would behoove you to take some responsibility for it. If you want someone to offer you opinions and change what you do you’ve definitely hired the wrong guy”.

We were all kinda floored by this but it was an amusing introduction to the recording philosophy and ethos of this guy Steve Albini. I immediately went upstairs to my shiny new Apple II computer and googled this Steve Albini guy. A couple of weeks later Bob Weston and Steve Albini were off and recording In Eutero by Nirvana. Now Steve passed away last week and the surviving members of Nirvana posted this letter from Steve outlining his plans to record the album. A fitting tribute to a guy that turned the recording profession on it’s head.

09/05/2024

Steve Albini talks Gar Gilles and the BTO

Gear Dork is where we talk about gear. Like dorks. This one is about1970s Canadian warhorse amplifier, the Garnet BTO Special, built bycharming, storied ecce...

08/05/2024

R.I.P. Steve Albini

The Shellac and Big Black frontman, who recorded classic albums by Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey, and more, has died of a heart attack

07/05/2024

I been thinking alot about my friend Dash's passing and speaking with bandmates, we thought maybe the one way we could honour our dear friend would be to share his last recordings with his friends and family. Dash was so proud of this, as we all were.

The album Morse Code released in 2015 by Winnipeg band Dash and the Dots

02/05/2024

I’ve been working on one piece of music for almost 3 months now, Firth of Fifth by Genesis from the album Selling England by the Pound.
This has been a winter project that was so very difficult to play, let alone record and try to film as it was recorded against a green screen to make a 10 minute film later.
My good friend and piano meister Geoffrey Owen was kind enough to take on the intro challenge as well as old friend and mandolin meister Keith McCloud who played the original Peter Gabriel flute solo.
The video is finally coming together and working on a final mix now…hoping to release Firth of Fifth very soon.

30/04/2024

Gonna have some fun and make some great music with my pals this Thursday at Park Alleys with Slow Train Home. 8:30 PM hope you can join us. I believe there is no cover and usually a wine deal on.

30/04/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyLQGDIrGcI&ab_channel=MusicVideoVault

A brilliant interpretation of the Academy Award song "Over the Rainbow".An almost sacrilegious audience cough right before the last melody note was digitally...

27/04/2024

This is quite awesome, Deacon Creekhttps://www.tiktok.com//video/7360676978439048453?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

22/04/2024

Years ago my experience at Little Mountain Sound recording with The Cheer, produced by Bob Rock forever changed my life and set me on my my own journey as a recording engineer. This is a wonderful documentary about the place and time.

From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, a nondescript building in Vancouver served as a laboratory for some of the biggest musicians of the era.During that t...

17/04/2024

Love my hive.
Thanks for all the suggestions and much thanks to Sina who was kind enough to lend me her garment steamer.
Yesterday Vs Today.

15/04/2024

Hey FB hive! Ima doing some green screen shooting and need to figure out how to take all these wrinkles out of 12’ of these screens. Is there such a thing as a clothes steamer device? I guess you could probably use a conventional iron but these things are huge 6’X9’. I seem to recall one of the seamstresses in the theatre steaming backdrops at one point. Any suggestions are welcome, please and thanks!

04/04/2024

Fabulous Rig rundown with Steve Hackett

Full Rig Details: https://bit.ly/SteveHackettRRSubscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube “I always apologize to the two Erics [Clapton and ...

30/03/2024

24/03/2024

This is utterly fabulous Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler. One hour 45 minutes of swampy download goodness.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCiRap5a3Ms&ab_channel=MarkKnopfler

18/03/2024

The piano intro to Firth of Fifth by Tony Banks and Genesis as performed by Geoffrey Owen and produced by yours truly.

Piano Introduction to the Genesis song Firth of Fifth as performed by Geoffrey Owen, Recorded and Produced by Chris Brett

17/03/2024

Much thanks to the roomie, resident pianist Geoffrey Owen. It's been 6 weeks now of absolute pleasure listening to him learn and rehearse this masterful piano intro to the song/video we've been working on, an epic cover of Firth of Fifth by Genesis. We might even put out a teaser of him doing the intro, he even dressed up for the video recording session so stay tuned...

20/02/2024

Remembering Randy California, guitarist for the band Spirit and Jimi Hendrix's guitar mentor.

Bass player Mark Andes looks back on the career Randy California and his intrepid band

19/02/2024

Harry Manx is one of my favourite artists, a unique soul and no one sounds like him or does what he does. His version of Crazy love on that crazy 20 string guitar is worth the ticket price right there. Vieux Farka Touré, from Mali, is the son of Ali Farka Touré and in the only possible comparison of the two artists tonight I’ve never heard anyone do what this fellow does before either. Fantastic night of amazing guitar playing and world music.