Progressive metal band ‘Chase The Sunset’ have just completed a five track demo which we will be mixing over the next few weeks.

‘The Gypsy Pistoleros’ have been in tracking drums for a forthcoming release on Roadrunner Records

Welsh legends ‘Jess’ are in the studio today recording a live session for the BBC

Tenby band ‘Mulholland’ have just completed a 5 track demo

‘Rosie Probert’ has been in recording vocals for her new track ‘Lonely Hearts Add’

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We went to Mwnci Studio to record our fourth Single under Clean Living Records Ltd.

The Studio was welcoming and relaxing. The accommodation was nicer than our own houses.

Jethro (the in house Engineer) listened to our suggestions and added his own valued input into the production process.

Mwnci encapsulated our sound perfectly, well recorded but maintaining our ‘raw sound’.

Fantastic!

Great fun

the Novocaines

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Clean Living Records Ltd

We are sending all our acts to Mwnci studio.

Efficient, no questions asked and nice soft comfy chairs for the inevitable entourage.

The best Studio in Wales

Wolf People on Myspace

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NEWS - Dolwilym hibernation + CD EP back soon

Wolf People are returned from a week rehearsing and writing the album in deepest West Wales. New music happened.

Being the blessed souls that we are, we managed to stumble on the perfect environment for writing and recording; A 17^th century mansion grounds in a secluded bit of Carmarthenshire. The mansion is long gone but the kitchen, servants’ quarters, coach-house and barns are still there, with an ancient cromlech across the valley.

I don’t know what else to say about it without it sounding too much like an advert but I can’t imagine finding a more appropriate situation to write and rehearse in. The studio was 100 yards from the cottage!

Sophie Mac on Myspace

Sophie Mac

Sophie Mac will be performing next 11-15-2008 19:00 at Swn festival - ’the gate’  Roath Cardiff,

Awst 2008
Bu Rosie Probert, cantores / awdur caneuon yn gorffen recordio ei chan gyntaf ‘Ffrwythe’ yn Mwnci Studios yn ddiweddar.  Yn ystod y seshwn, ymynodd hi gyda Rural, a fe ychwanegodd ef syniadau cynyrchu i’r gan.

August 2008
Singer / songwriter Rosie Probert recently finished recording her first song ‘Ffrwythe’ at Mwnci Studios.  During the two-day session, she teamed up with Rural who added some production tweaks to the tune.

Thanks to Robin Jones and Magi Dodd for playing ‘Ffrwythe’ last week. Double thanks for ‘Band of the Week’ title.

Rural

Rosie Probert

Radio Cymru

An excerpt from Classic Rock news

Classic Rock is to launch the Powerage label, dedicated to championing high-voltage rock music from around the world.

Powerage is a joint venture with leading music distributor and online retailer, Plastic Head Distribution.

The remit of the new label is to promote upcoming acts that Classic Rock magazine champions to its readers.

In its search for acts, Powerage will be headed by UK A&R veteran Derek Oliver who will work with UK acts on new material, while teaming up with Classic Rock to track down foreign acts.

Chris Ingham, publisher of Classic Rock, said: “Over the years we’ve discovered an amazing raft of new hard rock talent at Classic Rock.

“It’s always been a huge frustration that nobody at UK labels seems to notice all of these great bands and give them the support and backing they need.

“If traditional record companies wouldn’t release these albums, we knew our readers still wanted to hear them, so decided to team up with Plastic Head to make sure we got these out to our audience.”

Plastic Head’s managing director, Steve Beatty, added: “Traditional classic rock is increasingly popular, but we’ve noticed that whilst there are plenty of talented young artists, very few labels are supporting the genre.

“It’s very exciting for us to be partnering with Classic Rock to bring this music to the masses.”

The first releases will be the second album from hot young Welsh rockers Lethargy, the first UK releases from CR favourites Pride Tiger and Endeverafter, and the new album from Viking Skull.

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MUEN: TELL US ABOUT THE NEW ALBUM, “PURIFICATION”… WHERE WAS IT RECORDED, AND HOW DID YOU GET DAVID PRATER (DREAM THEATER, FIREHOUSE) TO PRODUCE IT?

PHIL: David Prater was our first choice as producer but we never thought we’d get him from the US to make our first official album. We knew Derek Oliver and David Prater had worked together on two Dream Theater albums (Images & Words, A Change of Seasons), so at least the connection was there. We got in contact with several producers, some we couldn’t get for this or that reason and some we didn’t agree on with the label. Derek called us one day and said David Prater loved ‘Road Out Of Nowhere’ and wanted to come over to the UK to do our next album. So we were in regular contact with David from that point and he came to Wales in October 2006 and spent a month with us recording the CD in Mwnci Studios, West Wales. He later went back to mix it with Javier Bassino in in a studio in Chile that he was fond of. They finished in December 2006 and sent it back over.

ANDY: It was great to work with a producer such as David. It was our first experience of ever working with a producer and it was a real eye-opener. Much was learned in the month we spent with Prater and will put us in good stead when constructing future songs.

MARC: David Prater made several phone calls to us in Wales and seemed as excited as us to work on this project. David was a great help and a real inspiration in the studio and took the overall sound of the record far past our expectations of how it could sound, crafting all the aspects and dynamics we desired and then some!

GAZ: This album is the first one I have ever recorded whereas the other boys have had quite a few experiences in a recording studio. To have such a big producer as David for this album was great as I learnt a tremendous amount about actually recording an album and also how to approach drumming in many different ways as David is a drummer himself.