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About Me

.. The former Kelvingrove Church, designed by James Sellars (Greek Thompson school) built in 1872. Situated on the River Kelvin between Glasgow's city centre and West end, adjacent to the Art Galleries, Kelvingrove Park and the Kelvin Hall.
The new studios are now up and running, Studio 2 has played host to a menagerie of sounds in the past few months!
Lots of new bands, Flying Matchstick Men, Popup, Genaro, Uncle John & Whitelock, Fickle Public, Screaming Butterfly, The 1990's plus many more. Also visits from our good friends, The Scruffs, Arab Strap and Isobel Campbell. We were also pleased to welcome Rufus Wainwright and X-Factor Winner Shane Ward to Glasgow.
*** 2006 / 2007***
Pam welcomed back The Fratellis in September to record the B-Side for Whistle For The Choir, they returned on the 30th of December to record a track for Simon Peggs new film, Hot Fuzz" Solid Gold, Easy Lay was mixed by Tony Hoffer out in LA! Another Glasgow band, Figure 5 have also spent time in the studio with Pam and Numb Productions. Their EP is due for release on the 19th of February 2007 on iTunes!
Alasdair Roberts album "The Amber Gatherers" is out NOW! Recorded over a week in sunny June'06 by Dave and Pam. The Guillemots returned to Ca Va in November to record a B-side with Geoff, Isobel Campbell joined them as a backing vocalist and heavily featured our Mellotron! Glasgow band Catcher's new album Bi Polar Bear Disorder, has been completed, engineered by Geoff, assisted by Pam, this will be released in early 2007!
The truck has been busy in the last 12 months, The Zutons, The Brakes, The Charlatans, The Howlin' Bells, XFM Winter Wonderland, Keane, Travis and will be recording Snow Patrol at King Tuts in June. Look out for the Audiomobile near you!
Geoff has started working with an exciting new band, Make Model. These guys are a band to look out for in the future, watch out for gigs near you! Geoff has also worked on the sound tracks for 2 new films, with composer Max Richter. One of these films, Grace is Gone, premiered @ Sundance 2007. It won the "Audience Award" and should be on general release later this year.
Isobel Campbells new album is well underway with her band and Mark Lanegan. Engineer Matt Cullen from NYC also joins the fray !

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Member Since: 2/10/2006
Band Website: cavasound.com
Band Members: ..

Brian Young

The founder of Ca Va with production and engineering credits by John Martyn, Runrig and Love & Money, also a cool guitarist with an increasing appetite for valves, vinyl and football.

Geoff Allan

After joining in 1994 as our assistant, Geoff soon moved onto cutting his teeth as an engineer on projects like The Supernaturals "A Tune A Day" and Belle and Sebastians "Tigermilk".Going from strength to strength he soon found a niche working with Glasgow's underground bands like Arab Strap ,Lapsus Linguae and Mogwai through the rest of the 90's. Since then his credits include Camera Obscura, Franz Ferdinand, Mercury Rev, Fiel Garvie, Sons and Daughters, Fickle Public, Flying Matchstick Men and Popup. His all consuming passion for recording can only be described as infectious, although he'll gladly indulge in some "R+R" after a productive day in the studio. Recently he has had success with Malcolm Middleton's "Into The Woods" it was voted number 8 in the Mojo magazine "Album of The Year 2005". Both of Malcolm's albums were mixed with additional recording here at Ca Va with Geoff.

Dave Paterson

Joined us in 2000, and we love him, he is just top notch !. With a lot of advertising experience he slotted in very well, taking on a lot of the CaVa voice over work, advertising everything from cosmetic surgery to casting and recording computer game The Roswell Conspiracies, He has also worked with a great many BBC Sessions in Scotland and Celtic Connections' bands like V-Twin, and The Holmes Brothers, as well as a lot of our regular clients The Scruffs, Dr Honda and The Nimmo Brothers. Proving he is very comfortable with all the various musical styles we get here at the studio. Dave is currently in the charts with Isobel Campbell's album 'Ballad of the Broken Seas' and he also had an album in the Mojo Top 50 this year with Vashti Bunyan's 'Lookaftering'.

Pam Smith

Initially here in early 2005 to assist with the "Great Tape Clearout", Pam returned in Autumn 2005 as a full-time member of the Ca Va Team. Initially working as an admin assitant, she is slowly taking advantage of her engineering background and learning her way around the VR! Shadowing Dave and Geoff and learning the ropes by sitting in on sessions, Pam has now become happier behind the mixing desk than the reception one! Working with The Fratellis, Kid Canaveral, The Comedy Unit, Twilight Sad, Max Richter, Figure 5, Tattie Moon, Magnus Magnusson, The Tellers and many others on her own, Pam can usually be found helping Geoff and Dave with any sessions!

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Artists with a passion for producing great records!

30 Bentinck Street
Glasgow
G3 7TT

Tel : 0141-334-5099

Fax : 0141 3390271

Email: [email protected]

Sounds Like:

.. Some of the people who have made their music at Ca Va Sound;

Belle & Sebastian, Mogwai, Snow Patrol, John Martyn, Sons & Daughters, The Delgados, Hue & Cry, David Byrne, Idlewild, The Fall, Teenage Fanclub, Looper, Runrig, V-Twin, Mull Historical Society, Andrew Loog Oldham, Arab Strap, The Thrills, Dogs Die in Hot Cars, The Proclaimers, Nazareth, Rab Noakes, Fraser Spiers, BBC Scotland, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, The Silencers, Deacon Blue, Craig Armstrong, Kim Beacon, The Blue Nile, Biffy Clyro, Love & Money, The Supernaturals, Dead Fly Buchowski, Karen Dunbar, Fish, Ray Wilson, Pat Kane, The Grim Northern Social, Isobel Campbell, Eddie Reader, SSO, The Darkness, Aereogramme, Wheatus, The Reindeer Section, Astrid, The Chymes, Terra Diablo, Popup, The Zephyrs, Camera Obscura, AC Acoustics, Simple Minds, Soup Dragons, Attica Rage, Deacon Blue, Cayto, Eddi Reader, Mojave 3, The Nimmo Brothers, The Radiotones, Button Up, Shakin' Pyramids, Transaudio, Roost, The Stunts, Twenty-Eight, Shooglenify, Fraser Anderson, Vashti Bunyan, Blair Douglas, Rufus Wainwright, Fickle Public, Alamos, Max Richter with Fatcat Records, Black Eyed Peas, Mick Cook, Faithless, MTV, Fiel Garvie,Radio Scotland, Aidan Moffat, Rage Music, Leopard Films, The Scruffs, Uncle John and Whitelock, Malcolm Middleton, Neon Productions, Southpaw Records, Hefner, Flying Matchstick Men, Kid Canaveral, Raar, Airpsiel, The Fratellis, The Janes, The Twilight Sad, Make Model, Figure 5, Darkwater, Keser, Billy Boyd, RSNO Junior Chorus, The Guilemots, The Fridays, Beth Wilmshurst, Audio Fever, Butcher Boy, Alasdair Roberts, The Midden

We are new to this so if you have recorded at Ca Va and would like to be added, just leave a comment and say which record you did.

Ca Va also has Scotland's 1st Independent 48 Track Studio on Wheels for capturing live performances: 48 TRACK Digital Tascam DA88

* AMEK G2520 (48 channels)
* UREI 809 Monitors
* Neumann, AKG, Sanken Mics
* 150 metre multicore with 64 MIC lines 16 XLR ties
* TASCAM ES50 Synchroniser
* Fully Air Conditioned ..

Record Label: Flamingo West Records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Whoops!

Just noticed its been over a year since my last blog...We've been sooooooo busy, espcially since the turn of the year...Big News: The refurb of Ca Va Studio 2 is nearing completion!!!!! A new wood ro...
Posted by Ca Va Sound on Sat, 19 May 2007 06:42:00 PST

Shake it like a Polaroid Picture...

Here is a wee update to let you know what and who have been passing though out blue doors this month..maybe we should get a smoke machine and make it a bit 'Stars in Your Eyes'..or maybe not..anyway, ...
Posted by Ca Va Sound on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 02:58:00 PST

Recent Bands....

Hello to everyone!Just a quick update about who's been 'through our doors' these past few weeks!Glasgow band 'Popup' started February with Geoff. 3 days recording saw them leave with a smile on their ...
Posted by Ca Va Sound on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:57:00 PST

Directions to Ca Va

Here is a basic 'how to get us from the M8' directions! Please bear in mind that good old Glasgow roadworks might mean these are slightly changed, but this is the simplest way to find us!Coming from t...
Posted by Ca Va Sound on Thu, 02 Mar 2006 08:07:00 PST

30 Great Albums Recorded at Ca Va Sound Workshops

In no order of prefference we are quite proud of: BLUE NILE - PEACE AT LAST 1996KIM BEACON - RAVENNA 1979RUNRIG - MARRA 1996BELLE & SEBASTIAN - TIGERMILK 1996 &nbs...
Posted by Ca Va Sound on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:40:00 PST