TW Walsh

Ciao My Shining Star

TW — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:41:25 +0000

An acquaintance of mine, Mark Mulcahy, suffered a great personal loss when his wife died suddenly earlier this year, leaving him to raise his twin infant daughters alone. He is a respected songwriter, and many artists have come together to cover his songs and release a benefit album. I’m honored to be among them. I recorded “I Hate To Needy Need You” with the help of Geoff Farina on guitar and Ken Maiuri on bass, keyboards and backing vocals. You can hear Thom Yorke’s (Radiohead) song at the following link, and the rest of the details are below. Michael Stipe (REM), Frank Black (Pixies) and many other artists are in there. There are 41 artists/songs. Please consider supporting Mark, my heart goes out to him and his daughters.

Thom Yorke’s song stream at Stereogum

Ciao My Shining Star, a love letter to Melissa - The Songs of Mark Mulcahy, will be released on the 7th September in the UK and the 29th September in the USA via Shout! Factory.

The record will be released as a physical disc with 21 tracks on it, a further 20 tracks will be available as a download, accessible once you put the physical CD in to your computer. Or, if the album is bought from a download site (iTunes etc) all 41 tracks will be delivered in one go as the full album.

The running order for the release is as follows:

Thom Yorke - All for the Best
The National - Ashamed of the Story I Told
Michael Stipe - Everything’s Coming Undone
David Berkeley - Love’s the Only Thing That Shuts Me Up
Dinosaur Jr - The Backyard
Chris Harford - Micon the Icon
Frank Black - Bill Jocko
Vic Chestnut - Little Man
Unbelievable Truth - Ciao My Shining Star
Butterflies of Love - I Have Patience
Chris Collingwood - Cookie Jar
Frank Turner - The Quiet One
Rocket form the Tombs - In Pursuit of Your Happiness
Ben Kweller - Wake Up Whispering
Josh Rouse - I Woke Up in the Mayflower
The Autumn Defense - Paradise
Hayden - Happy Birthday Yesterday
Juliana Hatfield - We’re Not in Charleston Anymore
Mercury Rev - Sailors and Animals
Elvis Perkins - She Watches Over Me
Sean Watkins - A World Away From This One

Additional Digital Tracks:

The Parkway Charlies - 4:04
Winterpills - And Then?
Dumptruck - Apartment Murders
Biet and Gryphon - Be Sure
Buffalo Tom - Tom Butterflies
The Gravel Pit - Closer to the Wall
The Mericans - Country Boy
The Autumn Defense - Even Better
Lo Fine - Everywhere
AC Newman - Gigantic Transatlantic Trunk Call
Syd Straw - Hey Self Defeater
TW Walsh - I Hate to Needy Need You
School for the dead - I Just Shot Myself in the Foot Again
Laura Veirs - Mr. Mingo
Slugs - Nothing But A Silver Medal
Spouse - Pasadena Love Song
Joe Purdy - Resolution #1
The Pressure Room - Tempted
Senator - The Way That She Really Is
BP Helium - You’re the One Lee

It’s available at Amazon.

Curse Your Branches Details Revealed

TW — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:37:08 +0000

Release date: September 1, 2009
Record Label: (Barsuk)
Format: CD / LP / MP3

1. Hard To Be
2. Bless This Mess
3. Please, Baby, Please
4. Curse Your Branches
5. Harmless Sparks
6. When We Fell
7. Lost My Shape
8. Bearing Witness
9. Heavy Breath
10. In Stitches

I worked hard mixing and mastering this album, and I’m proud of it.

Asthmatic Kitty Library Catalog Series

TW — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:39:29 +0000

I am the mastering engineer on the newly announced Library Catalog Series from Asthmatic Kitty. I’ve already finished a few of these records and they’re pretty amazing. Additional info and MP3s here.

Campbell Transmitter

TW — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:23:37 +0000

My uncle Tim Campbell is making very high quality microphone capsules. Check them out at Campbell Transmitter. He’s also the guy who originally designed the birds on the fretboards of PRS guitars.

The Soft Drugs Are Playing A Show

TW — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:34:55 +0000

The Soft Drugs are opening for Joe Lally and Glorytellers at the Middle East Upstairs on June 10. Joe used to be in Fugazi and Glorytellers features Geoff and Gavin from Karate.

API 550m x 2

TW — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:46:34 +0000

In the next few days I’ll be wiring up my new API 550m mastering EQ’s. These are a bit rare and totally awesome.

Twitter

TW — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:28:16 +0000

I’m back on Twitter. You can follow me at twitter.com/twwalsh.

API 2500

TW — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:27:10 +0000

As it turns out, I’m extremely picky! The Obsidian is an amazing unit, especially for mixing. However, it’s not quite flexible enough and its metering is not really precise enough for a mastering application. So I’m swapping it out for an API 2500 which will hopefully be in the rack for quite a while.

Mulcahy Tribute

TW — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:17:32 +0000

A couple weeks ago I put a little band together to record a cover song. Mark Mulcahy is a talented songwriter who recently suffered a personal loss, and a bunch of artists are recording his songs for a tribute album. I asked Geoff Farina to play guitar and Ken Maiuri to play bass. I played drums and sang. We headed over to Scott Craggs’ Old Colony loft studio in Southie on a Saturday and banged out the tracks, and I mixed it down in the basement of the Tower of Song. It came out great. I’ll let you know when I have details about the release. It was fun to work with Geoff, Ken and Scott, and I’d like to do more of it in the future.

Billions.com

TW — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:09:18 +0000

I worked with web designer & developer Nick Robinson to build the new website for the Billions booking agency. It’s an extensive site with over 200 band pages, a Wordpress blog, an average of 1,000 concert dates that auto-update every day, and much more. I did all of the back-end PHP and MySQL development, designed the data structures and integrated with their Filemaker concert date database. Check it out.