Current And Recent Projects At Custom Recording Studios

Every Month
Every month we work on short projects that are too numerous to mention. We do dozens of music school entry demos, for example.

January 2010
Deep Down is an awesome-sounding Christian blues band. They recorded an album of original songs, some instrumental and some with vocals. The band includes some of the best musicians that have ever recorded here. Christian Zelin, the lead guitarist, is in a class by himself. He is one of the finest guitarists I have heard. Listen to their sample here.

December 2009
Mary Beth Carlson produced and played piano for a short Christmas album for Mary Mann, an outstanding vocalist. Carlson performs all over the Midwest, and is known for many of her piano albums being played on the radio and being sold in stores. Carlson is an awesome musician and one of the finest pianists we have recorded. She is a real joy and a blessing to work with.

November 2009
Jill and Tuffy Bryant recorded a new Christmas CD called Leave It under the Tree This Christmas. Tuffy wrote all 15 Christmas songs. Jill, his wife, accompanied Tuffy on vocals. Tuffy played acoustic guitar and Stephen Gammell played lead, rhythm, and bass guitar. Gammell is a very talented musician. All vocals and acoustic guitar were recorded live at the same time.

November 2009
The Aluminum Strings recorded their very first CD of Old Time Swedish music. The five- and six-piece group consists of accordian, zither, 2 fiddles, stand up bass, tuba, acoustic guitar, and mandolin. The ages of the group's members range from the late 60s to the middle eighties. They recorded three albums with us 12 years ago.

October 2009
William Hansen from Ringsted, Iowa, recorded a full CD album of standards and religious songs, accompanied on piano by Glenn Henriksen. Hansen's voice is one of the best I have recorded and he sings in the style of Frank Sinatra.

September 2009
David Goldstein, songwriter and producer, started an album of theatre-type songs. He used some very talented singers from the Guthrie and Chanhassen theatres.

September 2009
The Bobby Jackson Jazz Group started an album of original songs with drums, keyboards, bass, and vocals all tracked live.

August 2009
Kathleen Widlund from Colorado started a new album of originals. The entire album, including vocals, was tracked live.

July 2009
Dan Pertile recorded his third album here with acoustic and MIDI accordion.

July 2009
Lloyd Wallin--singer, songwriter, and guitar builder--has started an album of songs he has written. His voice has the deep tone qualities of past country singers.

June 2009
Neal Topliff recorded a solo piano album, A Peaceful Place, his sixth album recorded here. His albums are for sale along the north shore and in many gift shops.

June 2009
Chuck Casterline (Cactus Willie) and friends recorded their sixth album here. Cactus Willie is the best Willie Nelson impersonator I have heard.

May 2009
Lini, the Twin Cities Latvian group, is continuing to record and mix. Right now they have enough material for several CD albums.

April 2009
Stu Nankin, musician, producer, and arranger, was in here for the past several months working on a 7-minute piece called "Atlantic Soul Medley." It contains 13 tracks of horns by some of the Twin Cities' best horn players. Stu is one of the very best musicians, producers, and arrangers there is.

April 2009
Herman Jones of My Funk Brother recorded a song, "I've Got a Hot Spot," in one take with 11 tracks at the same time. Jones has been recording for over 30 years and was a regular here 25 years ago.

April 2009
CODA recorded its third CD album, Ingratiating, here. CODA is a duet of two very top-notch musicians, Scott Dorf on various saxophones and Malcolm Anderson on keyboards and our grand piano. Their new album contains 13 tracks of pop and standards.

March 2009
Ed Ripley recorded and finished up his album of 12 original songs, Better Late than Never. Ed Ripley is a veteran radio announcer who interviewed Elvis Presley.

March 2009
The Finn Hall band recorded their new Finnish folk album, Come Dance. The album contains 21 well-known Finnish-American folk tunes.

March 2009
Nikolai Koivunen recorded and mixed his 12-track CD album of original songs. Nik is a very accomplished songwriter, musician, and arranger.

February 2009
The John Connerton group finished up their 11-track CD, Making a Journey.

February 2009
David Seeba, folk songwriter and singer, worked on his new CD album, Horizons. He used Greg Tiburzi on drums, percussion, harp, and vocals, and Robin Buchelt on keyboards, guitar, strings, and all arrangements.

January 2009
St. Joseph Catholic Church of New Hope, Minnesota, will be in again, working on a new Lenten Renewal CD.

January 2009
Tony Andreason (lead Guitarist of the Trashmen of "Surfin' Bird" fame), Stu Nankin, and Donald Yahnke will be in again, working on more surfing music. Stu was the original bassist for the rock group Chameleon, and he is a talented musician and producer.

December 2008 and January 2009
Century College from White Bear Lake and the Bush Grant used approximately 50 hours of studio time for language interpretation. The languages consisted of Spanish, Hmong, Somali, and English. Each session was at least 10 hours long, and we mixed to CD for editing. The CDs will be used on the Internet and also for the University of Minnesota.

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