Long time Karnataka collaborator and top mix engineer Joe Gibb has been weaving his magic to finish the mixing on the debut ILLUMINAE album. As well as working on many of the Karnataka releases, Joe has also worked with artists including Massive Attack, The Cure and Leftfield, to mention just a few. Album release details coming soon.
No list of great saxophonists and classic sax solos would be complete without the presence of Supertramp saxophonist John Helliwell, so we’re very pleased to announce that John has just recorded some great sax (and clarinet) parts for a track on the debut Illuminae album.
Thanks to John Ellis for recording the session at his wonderful Limefield Studio in Manchester.
The debut album recording is now almost finished with Ian currently working on some production before we start mixing the album.
The new album is taking shape very nicely and we’re now in the final stages of production.
We’ve been focussing on vocals recently with most of the tracks now completed.
We’re already planning the mixing and we’ll be announce further details soon.
We’ve been very busy in the studio working on the new ILLUMINAE album. Great to hear the tracks and production really starting to take shape.
Recently we’ve been focusing on vocals – Agnieszka has been doing some great work on vocal arrangements and has been in the studio laying down the vocal tracks.
Luke Machin recently finished recording his guitar parts for the album – some very special moments there. We’ll be bringing you more ILLUMINAE updates soon.
Ian has finished recording all the bass and bass pedal parts for the new album.
Ian said “It’s been a great experience recording the bass parts for the new album. Craig’s superb drums have really enabled me to be more expressive with the bass, probably more than any album I’m worked on. The diversity of the tracks has helped too but it’s nice to feel the bass taking a more central role sometimes.”
Special guest guitarist Luke Machin has filmed a short video of his superb solo for the track Lullaby on the new album. Check it out!
Ian and Agnieszka have been in the studio recording bass and vocals for the new album.
Great to hear the tracks developing as the production builds.
Check out our ‘behind the scenes’ video from our photo/video shoot in Młynka, Poland.
Photographers: Maria Kuczara & Rafał Babczyński