New Album: Winch House – The High Cost of Low Living
Posted on Apr 1, 2009 in Audio Work, Beat-Making and Composition, CD Artwork Design, Colourization, Design Work, Featured Work, Mastering, Mixing, Performance, Photography Work, Portfolio, Production, Programming, Promo Photography, Recording, Songwriting
Our biggest project to date is the Winch House debut album – The High Cost of Low Living. Let’s just call it our baby. Work actually began on this album in 2007 and the recording was finished a year later and with one member less in 2008. Chris Maguire Recorded, Produced, Mixed and Mastered all of the tracks. Chris also programmed and wrote...
Read MoreNew Video: Nizlopi Altsounds Session
Posted on Dec 2, 2008 in Acoustic Session, Audio Work, Colourization, Mastering, Mixing, Photography Work, Portfolio, Production, Promo Photography, Re-touching, Recording
During the summer of 2008 Nizlopi who are probably most famed for their Christmas Number One “The JCB Song” stopped by the Altsounds.com HQ for an acoustic session and video interview. Chris Maguire recorded, produced, mixed and mastered the session. Chris also did all the camera operation, titles, and video editing too. This is a must see for...
Read MoreNew Video: Introducing… Sarabeth Tucek
Posted on Aug 11, 2008 in Audio Work, Mastering, Mixing, Portfolio, Production, Recording, Video Capturing
Sarabeth Tucek is a lovely Los Angeles veteran that is originally from New York. She has a very soft yet lovely voice. While she toured the UK in support of her album she stopped by the Altsounds.com HQ for an intimate acoustic session and video interview. We chatted with Sarabeth about all sorts of things ranging even going to the depths of talking about...
Read MoreNew Video and Photo: Four Year Strong
Posted on May 13, 2008 in Camera Operation, Directed, Portfolio, Video Capturing, Video Editing, Video Interview, Video Titles
Four Year Strong came through Cardiff whilst they were touring the UK in support of their debut album “Rise or Die Trying” during May 2008. We were lucky enough to be asked to cover this event and so we turned up cameras in hand ready to interview the guys for one of our “Hour in the life of…” features. So, we sat down in the...
Read MoreNew Live Photos: Dashboard Confessional @ Cardiff Solus
Posted on Apr 5, 2008 in Live and Event Photography, Portfolio
When Dashboard Confessional came to Cardiff in April 2008 to headline the Cardiff Solus club we were lucky enough to not only get photo passes to the show but we got some face time with Mr.Carraba and even got a shot or two of him playing guitar in his dressing room. Chris Maguire took all of the photos, colourized and photo-shopped them. The best of the...
Read MoreNew Video, Song & Audio: Cage The Elephant
Posted on Mar 31, 2008 in Acoustic Session, Art Photography, Audio Work, Camera Operation, Colourization, Directed, Featured Work, Film Work, Mastering, Mixing, Photography Work, Portfolio, Production, Promo Photography, Re-touching, Recording, Video Capturing, Video Editing, Video Titles
Cage the Elephant are an awesome indie rock band hailing from a southern state in the United States of America. The Cage the Elephant boys started to make an impact in the UK much before they did in the US. In Mar 2008 we were lucky enough to spend a whole day with Cage The Elephant while they toured the UK in support of their up and coming album. During our...
Read MoreNew Promo Photos: Escape in Progress
Posted on Mar 1, 2008 in Art Photography, Colourization, Photography Work, Portfolio, Promo Photography, Re-touching
Escape in Progress are a four piece rock band from Bridgend, Wales. The guys write anthemic tunes for the masses to love and enjoy. On March 1st 2008 we conducted a promo photo shoot for them in our chroma key (green screen) studios. The main purpose for using the green screen was so that we could quite literally add anything we wanted behind the guys to...
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