Dave
Michaels
Project
COSMOS
- the NEW CD from
Dave
Michaels
Project
In Stores
Summer of 2012
Brand New Songs and Guest
Artists
COSMOS,
the long anticipated 5th Album from the band who brought you
Crying Winds, Keeper of the Portal, Lands Unknown and Journey, is due for
release by Summer of 2012 on Alethea Records.
ALL NEW songs, with
their trademark Jazz/Rock Fusion sound, and some very special Guest Artists!
For the first time in
their career DMP
has embarked on an experimental mode of recording for this album. Combining the
endless possibilities of Digital Audio Recording with the warm natural sounds of
Analog Tape Recording. This process has given the album a unique feel and sound,
closer to the bygone days of open reel tape machines used in Analog recording
studios than the sterile world of Digital Audio recordings that end up sounding
squashed - little to no dynamic range - from the constant squashing and
maximizing done in the ever present world of today's loudness wars.
DMP
recorded
COSMOS
at Jasongs Recording Studio in
Glendale, AZ. Jasongs had the exact mix of environments and recording gear
available for the experiment; TEAC Reel-to-Reel tape machines, Allen & Heath
mixing boards, numerous outboard signal processors, top quality PCI based A/D
D/A Converters passing signal into a Cakewalk SONAR X1 Producer loaded DAW.
Though a daunting task for any engineer to record the initial live tracks in
analog and then convert them to digital without losing that familiar warm tone
and soft saturation that occurs naturally in open reel tape recording, Jasongs
had long years of experience in BOTH recording mediums and were as excited about
the project as the band! This was indeed a labor of love by ALL involved!
And made even better through the
guest appearance of vocalist Davey Pattison (GAMMA, Big Muddy, Robin Trower).
Davey's powerful voice and
riveting performances have made him one of the best Rock/Soul/Blues Singers of
ALL TIME! Davey brought sincere, passionate vocal performances to the songs on
COSMOS!
Also guest appearing is
drummer Pete Thompson (Silverhead, Robin Trower, Groove Shaman). Pete, who has
played with pretty much everyone from Melanie to Robert Plant over the years,
has given this album a literal "Kick in the seat" due to his formidable drumming
style! He brought some magic to the songs by virtue of his energy and
ever-positive personality!
The album's primary
producer was Dave of DMP
and executive produced by the band members as well as 3 guest producers, each
one handling specific areas of every song. And all combined as a unified whole
to make
COSMOS
the best album of their career!
