Nigel Godrich

Bernard Butler
"I met Nigel when I was working on the McAlmont and Butler album in 1995. I booked an engineer who didn't turn up on the first day and Nigel spent the whole day wandering around telling me 'I can do this what do you want someone else for'. And he did."

Phil Selway (Radiohead)
"He gets amazing sounds and gets them very quickly so that allows you to have a good momentum to the session. Beyond that he does have an overview so he can pick out elements of good performances, marry all those together and just keep everything moving."
Fran Healy (Travis)
"I remember so many times when I've done a vocal take and I think 'that's the one!' and Nigel will be behind the glass going 'nah, do it again'. When we recorded the Humpty Dumpty Love Song I recorded the vocal for it live and put this mad effect on the vocal, I couldn't hear what I was doing it was so effected. When I eventually did what I perceived to be the worst take Nigel's like 'brilliant!'."
Beck
"I think he's one of these rare people who's incredibly technical and has incredible perfectionist streak in him but he's also reckless too. Sometimes he'd record the whole song in two tracks so he can't go back and mix it. He works dangerously he's not afraid to take a chance which I like."
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Nigel Godrich (born in the UK in 1971) is a recording engineer and record producer. He is best known for his work with Radiohead. He has also worked as engineer, producer or mixer with Paul McCartney, Travis, Beck, Pavement, Air, Neil Finn, Natalie Imbruglia, Silver Sun, The Sundays, The Divine Comedy, U2, The Beta Band, and R.E.M. Godrich productions are generally known for their layered sound, often featuring experimental "swoosh" transitions between tracks.

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10/10/07
In Rainbows
Radiohead new album is out now.You can order it from their website.

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15/06/07
a bit of tape from the studio
Nigel Godrich posted on Dead Air Space a video that showed the playback of a reel of assembled tape snippets, which were cut out from certain mixes. The reel contains 20 fragments from the finished recordings of 6 songs: "Open Pick", "All I Need", "Down Is The New Up", "Arpeggi" and "Bangers 'n Mash".
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07/05/07
The Boy With No Name Out Now!

The latest album from Travis, The Boy With No Name is out now in CD, Vinyl and digital formats.
The Boy With No Name:
01: 3 Times & You Lose
02: Selfish Jean
03: Closer
04: Big Chair
05: Battleships
06: Eyes Wide Open
07: My Eyes
08: One Night
09: Under The Moonlight
10: Out In Space
11: Colder
12: New Amsterdam

N.B. The UK version also includes 2 bonus tracks.

Nigel produced and engineered the hidden track Sailing Away, he also did additional production on tracks 03/05/07/10.

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13/01/07
Saving Music One Video at a Time
These days, music television seems to play more so-called reality shows than it does music. And that bothers Nigel Godrich. He's the award-winning producer behind bands like Radiohead, Travis and Beck. And now he wants to save the music video from a commercial death. To do that, he's created a show called From the Basement. But you won't find it on television. This show's only available on the Web.
[Listen the full interview at NPR ]

14/12/06
Nigel Godrich Talks "From the Basement", Radiohead
"The whole point is to get people who are having their moment...and get a definitive record of what they're doing."
As previously reported, producer Nigel Godrich's "From the Basement"-- a sort-of television show that's on the Internet and thus has nothing to do with television at all-- will be available for download December 18 on www.fromthebasement.tv (okay, almost nothing to do with TV) and iTunes. For a small fee viewers may scoop up the show, which presents live performances in intimate settings without all the bells and whistles that usually hamper these things. Thom Yorke, the White Stripes, and Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid all play the debut episode, and if the trailer's any indication, it looks pretty effing fantastic.
The follow-up episode (due in February) will showcase performances by Beck and Jamie Lidell, and Godrich has high hopes for the series. Taking time out from working on the new Radiohead record, Godrich told Pitchfork in a recent interview, "We've got a lot of people that I'd like to see on the show [that] we're talking to. [But] I don't want to mention their names. Obviously, I'm really interested to capture some really iconic, bigger names-- really the whole point is to get people who are having their moment, to try and get a definitive record of what they're doing. [Read the full interview at Pitchfork ]
Matthew Solarski and Amy Phillips

16/11/06
Air Composes A 'Pocket Symphony'
French rock/electronica duo Air will release its next album, "Pocket Symphony," March 6 via Astralwerks. The 12-track set boasts vocals from Pulp's Jarvis Cocker and the Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon, as well as group members J.B. Dunckel and Nicolas Godin. It was produced by longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich.
Several tracks feature Asian classical instruments such as the Koto and the shamisen, which Godin learned from a Japanese master. "It's another direction, for sure," Dunckel told Billboard.com in June. "It's different, but it's Air. We like to change all the time. If we don't change our sound, we'll be dead. People who like our music like to discover new things. They're curious. They have some cultural musical background also, so they want to be surprised."
"Pocket Symphony" is the follow-up to 2004's "Talkie Walkie," which debuted at No. 2 on Billboard's Top Electronic Albums chart and has sold 161,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Air will tour Europe beginning in mid-March and hit the states in early May. Festivals in Europe and Japan are on tap for the summer, followed by additional fall dates worldwide.

Jonathan Cohen from www.billboard.com

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Discography

Year Album Artist Credit
1991 Superstition Siouxsie and the Banshees Assistant Engineer
1992 Vivienne McKone Vivienne McKone Assistant Engineer
1993 Buffalo Skinners Big Country Assistant Engineer
1994 Carnival of Light Ride Engineer.
1994 Heitor Heitor Engineer
1994 My Iron Lung EP Radiohead Producer, Engineer
1995 Bends Radiohead Producer, Engineer
1995 Feeling Mission Harvest Ministers Engineer
1995 Totally Tee Engineer
1995 Wide Eyed & Ignorant A House Engineer
1996 Booth and the Bad Angel Tim Booth/Angelo Badalamenti Engineer.
1996 Sound of..McAlmont & Butler McAlmont & Butler Engineer, Assistant Engineer, Mixing
1996 English and French Hopper Engineer
1997 OK Computer Radiohead Balance Engineer, Recording Technician
1997 Silver Sun Silver Sun Producer
1997 Plagiarism Sparks Engineer.
1998 Left of the Middle Natalie Imbruglia Mixing
1998 Mutations Beck Producer, Mixing
1998 Sisters in Pain Jamaica Engineer
1998 Try Whistling This Neil Finn Remixing, Mixing.
1998 Up R.E.M. Mixing
1999 Can You Still Feel? Jason Falkner Producer, Engineer
1999 The Man Who Travis Producer, Mixing
1999 Terror Twilight Pavement Producer.
2000 Kid A Radiohead Producer, Engineer, Mixing
2001 Walk On (Single) U2 Remixer
2001 Amnesiac Radiohead Producer, Engineer
2001 I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings Radiohead Engineer, Mixing
2001 The Invisible Band Travis Producer, Mixing
2001 Regeneration The Divine Comedy Producer
2002 Rouge On Pockmarked Cheeks Brazzaville Producer, Mixing, String Ensemble, Fender Rhodes
2002 Sea Change Beck Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Synthesizer, Percussion, Keyboards, String Arrangements
2003 City Reading (Tre Storie Western) Air/Alessandro Baricco Mixing
2003 Hail to the Thief Radiohead Editing, Mixing, Operation, Recording
2004 Absent Friends The Divine Comedy Mixing
2004 Heroes to Zeros The Beta Band Mixing
2004 Talkie Walkie Air Producer, Engineer, Mixing
2004 When It Falls Zero 7 Guitar, Sounds
2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Original Soundtrack Producer, Mixing
2005 Do They Know It's Christmas? Band Aid 20 Producer
2005 Chaos and Creation in the Backyard Paul McCartney Producer, Guitar Loops
2005 Guero Beck Mixing
2005 The Roads Don't Love You Gemma Hayes Mixing
2006 The Eraser Thom Yorke Producer, Mixing, Musician, Arranger
2006 5:55 Charlotte Gainsbourg Producer, Mixing
2006 Garden Zero 7 Guitar (Acoustic), Engineer
2006 The Information Beck Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Keyboards, Programming, Effects, Scratching, Tambourine, Percussion, Background Vocals, Speak 'n Spell Whistle, Tote A Tune, Kalimba, Drums, Gameboy

2006 Dad's Weird Dream Silver Sun Remixing
2007 Pocket Symphony Air Producer, Engineer, Mixing
2007 The Boy With No Name Travis Producer, Engineer

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