LAINIE FEFFERMAN’S HERE I AM ON FIRST ROUND BALLOT OF GRAMMY® VOTING FOR 2025
October 2, 2024

Lainie Fefferman’s Here I Am, featuring Transit New Music, is on the first-round GRAMMY® ballot for the 2025 GRAMMY® Awards in three categories: Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, Best Contemporary Composition, and Best-Engineered Album, Classical.

SCENE IN FOUR PARTS AND JUN BOTH RECEIVE THEIR EUROPEAN PREMIERE
July 4, 2024

Cellist Richard Jimenez gives the European premiere of Scene in Four Parts, and is joined by Kyle Miller, guitar, for the European premiere of Jun during the France Summer Music YXIE festival in Velleblevin, France.

CELLIST RICHARD JIMENEZ GIVES WORLD PREMIERE OF SCENE IN FOUR PARTS
April 17, 2024

Richard Jimenez gives the world premiere performance of Scene in Four Parts, which he commissioned, on April 17, 2024 at LeFrak Concert Hall, Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, Queens, NY.

RECORDING FOR THE SECOND PHASE OF MOLLY THOMPSON’S SHADOWS OF CORINTH
April 21, 2024

Tracking for Molly Thompson’s Shadows of Corinth continued at Creekside Sound, April 21 in Brooklyn, NY. The session featured some of NYC’s best, including Daisy Press, Kamala Sankaram, Lauren Cauley, Dan Lippel, Joe Brent, Peter Wise, and John Altieri (and Skipper!) The session was engineered by AML and Joe Higgins.

WRRV FEATURE ON STILL SOUNDS 2024 GRAMMY® NOMINATION
March 27, 2024

Connor Walsh from Hudson Valley’s Alternative WRRV 92.7/96.9 radio publishes a nice feature on my nomination and attendance at the 66th Annual GRAMMY® Awards ceremony in February, 2024.

DEWEY KINCADE AND THE NAVIGATORS RELEASE STANDING ON A ROCK
March 7, 2024

Dewey Kincade and The Navigators’ Standing on a Rock, which was co-produced and mixed by Still Sound, is released on Odd Socks Records and earns some excellent reviews. I also contributed as a guest guitarist/arranger on the project.

TEAM BLACK LODGE ATTENDS THE 2024 GRAMMY® AWARDS!
February  2, 2024

Had a blast attending the 66th Annual GRAMMY® Awards in Los Angeles this year with my collaborators from Team Black Lodge.

NEW WORK: SCENE IN FOUR PARTS COMPLETED
January 9, 2024

Work on Scene in Four Parts, a new piece for solo cello, commissioned by Richard Jimenez, is now complete! Scene is in 4 movements, all played attacca, with a performance run time of approximately 10 minutes. Mr. Jimenez will premiere the work on April 17, 2024 at the Aaron Copland School for Music, Queens College, Queens, NY.

BLACK LODGE EARNS 2024 GRAMMY® NOMINATION
November 23, 2023

I was nominated for a 2024 GRAMMY® Award in the Best Opera Recording category for my co-production work on Black Lodge, a “goth opera film” by composer David T. Little, librettist Anne Waldman, and filmmaker Michael McQuilken, produced by Beth Morrison Projects. David T. Little and I collaborated as co-producers for the soundtrack, and it was mixed at Still Sound.

NEW WORK: EIGHT TAO SETTINGS COMPLETED
September 12, 2023

The culmination of approximately 4 years of research and creative work, the score for Eight Tao Settings is now complete! The final arrangement is SATB Choir (=SSA solo); 4 percussion - modular synth - electric piano - strings (3vc.cb),; the work’s eight movements are played attacca for an approximate performance time of 36 minutes. The piece is currently in production rehearsals and will be premiered live in tandem with an immersive audio release, slated for 2025 on Still Sound Records.

DOLBY ATMOS PRODUCTION ARRIVES AT STILL SOUND
August 25, 2023

Still Sound is now equipped with Avid and Genelec-powered Dolby Atmos 7.1.4 production capabilities! I’m pleased to be able to offer this exciting new audio format — which accommodates everything from fully immersive mixes to stereo and binaural compatibility — in a single audio file format. It also sounds great.

PIANIST DAHVEED BEHROOZI RELEASES STANDARD FARE ON SUNNYSIDE RECORDS
July 7, 2023

Pianist Dahveed Behroozi releases Standard Fare, a collection of jazz classics for solo piano, on Sunnyside Records. Standard Fare was mixed and mastered at Still Sound.

BLACK LODGE, STILL SOUND CO-PRODUCTION, RELEASED ON CANTALOUPE RECORDS
June 2, 2023

Black Lodge — the “goth opera film” by composer David T. Little, librettist Anne Waldman, and filmmaker Michael McQuilken, produced by Beth Morrison Projects — is released on the Cantaloupe Records label to great acclaim. Legendary composer Philip Glass states, ““Black Lodge is a bold new operatic film. It seamlessly blends poetry and music into a powerful cinematic experience,” while Sonic Youth icon Thurston Moore states, “This is opera ripping through the fabric of future vision psychosis where the integrity of classic form clasps the hands of radical possibilities.”

JAMES MOORE’S DESOLATION POPS RELEASED ON NEW WORLD RECORDS
April 21, 2023

Composer James Moore releases an album of fantastic concert works on the New World Records label featuring performances by Nathan Koci, accordion; Claire Happel Ashe, triple harp; Kathleen Supové, piano; and The Rhythm Method string quartet.

RECORDING FOR THE FIRST PHASE OF MOLLY THOMPSON’S SHADOWS OF CORINTH
December 17-18, 2022

Tracking for Molly Thompson’s Shadows of Corinth commenced at Saints and Sinners Studios at The College of Saint Rose, December 17-18th in Albany, NY. The session featured some of NYC’s ace musicians, including Kamala Sankaram, Charlotte Mundy, Andie Tanning, James Moore, Joshua Lopes, Joe Brent, Ches Smith, and Peter Wise.

COMPOSER SAM SADIGURSKY RELEASES FIGURES/BROKEN PIECES ON ADHYÂROPA RECORDS
July 15, 2022

Composer Sam Sadigursky releases Figures/Broken Pieces, a collection of solo piano works featuring performances by Dahveed Behroozi, Nick Sanders, and Glenn Zaleski, on the Adhyâropa Records label. Figures/Broken Pieces was mixed and mastered at Still Sound.

COMPOSER DAVID T. LITTLE RELEASES AM I BORN
October 22, 2017

Trinity Wall St. and composer David T. Little release his choral and orchestral work, Am I Born, with text by Royce Vavrek, featuring The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; NOVUS NY; and Mellissa Hughes, soprano. Mixed at Still Sound, and mastered by Joe Lambert at JLM Mastering.

COMPOSER SAM SADIGURSKY RELEASES SOLOMON DIARIES, VOLS. I-III ON ADHYÂROPA RECORDS
January 7, 2022

Composer and virtuoso clarinetist Sam Sadigursky releases a trio of albums featuring co-collaborator Nathan Koci on accordion, piano, and banjo. The virtuosic and elegantly lyrical chamber pieces from these records sometimes frame found sound and voice recordings that chronicle the legacy of the Catskill Borscht Belt. Mixed at Still Sound; released on Adhyâropa Records.

COMPOSER KAMALA SANKARAM RELEASES OPERA SOUNDTRACK FOR LOOKING AT YOU
July 16, 2021

Mixed at Still Sound, composer Kamala Sankaram and librettist Rob Handel release their work Looking at You, a techno-noir music theater work mixing electronic dance music, crime jazz, and lyric operatic arias. Equal parts Edward Snowden and Casablanca, Looking at You explores the impact of modern technology on privacy.

FEATURED GUEST ON COMPOSER’S STUDIO PODCAST
August 08, 2020

It was an honor to be a guest on The Composer’s Studio podcast, where I got to speak with hosts Tarik Ghiradella and Anna Linvill about composition, performance, and music making.

 KNELLS II (OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE)
September 20, 2017

The Knells Combine Art Rock and Classical Sophistication on New Album:  NEW YORK — September 20, 2017 — The brainchild of guitarist and composer Andrew McKenna Lee, The Knells trace their roots back through nearly 1000 years of western classical music and refract them through the lenses of progressive, psychedelic, and experimental rock. On Knells II, releasing November 10 on Lee’s own imprint, Still Sound Records, the band further refines their unique sound with a collection of songs that seek emotional absolution beneath their dark-hued facades. Knells II will be available via digital download, CD, and limited edition vinyl through the band's page at Bandcamp.

SOLO PERFORMANCE AT 2017 AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL
June 8, 2017

"Amid the flurry of festival events, the programs with soloists offered a welcome feeling of calm and intimacy. Saturday night, after the big program from the ASO, Andrew McKenna Lee offered a set on solo guitar in one of the EMPAC studios. His original compositions had a beguiling blend of classical dignity with unexpected harmonic turns and were performed with virtuosic skill."