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“ Anyone Else” is another live on the floor vocal. Just so good!
Knotty absolutely nailed the engineering on this album. The perfect blend of isolation with musical bleed. Well done.
In modern music, and especially modern CCM music, we don’ t often let things be a“ natural performance.” We edit it and tune it into oblivion— it’ s as if we are afraid of our humanity. We desire perfection over authenticity. I’ m grateful John Mark let us capture Cosmic Supreme in a more authentic way.
[ WM ] You told me once that you purposely moved a good distance away from Nashville. Where are you and expand on the reason why?
[ Gabriel ] Well, I don’ t want to throw shade on Nashville. It’ s fine and all. But I really don’ t like creating in Nashville. It’ s gotten to be a big city, and its filled with music business at every turn. And … I dunno … I feel like sometimes the“ business” of music can overshadow the music itself— and sometimes the“ business” of music can influence the music making process more than it should.
I’ m thankful to be a few hours from Nashville— it’ s very helpful sometimes to get there for a session, etc. But I wanted to get up into the mountains of East Tennessee. I wanted to get away from the feeling of the big city and get out into the woods. Plus, hey, less tornadoes!
[ WM ] The last few years you have used a mainstream studio( Echo Mountain) and it sounds like now you have a bigger vision in mind for your own plans regarding producing music, a recording studio and more. Tell us about it …
[ Gabriel ] I’ m pretty excited for the future out here. My business partners and I have a vision to build something of a recording retreat specifically for what we refer to as the“ modern Levitical community.” Imagine several cabins for artist lodging( yet big enough for an artist to bring their family), livestock( chickens, cows, horses, etc), a big pond, creek and waterfall, farm to table meals, and a massive recording studio built into a rustic barn, all on 40 acres overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains. It’ ll feature a rare vintage Neve console in the A room, an SSL in the B room, and a trickedout C room for edits and overdubs. We’ ll host
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