Leopard Recording Studio - Recording Retreat in the Hudson Valley

We have recieved a fantastic review of the A Viberatto cd called A, in the Kingston NY Daily Freeman, written by musician and producer David Malachowski.  You may read the entire review at the A Viberatto website – press page.

What we love:     “No one can accuse Goodman of copying, borrowing or being derivative here, he is pioneering his own territory here, and is the undisputed king of this yet unnamed genre”   AND “Now and Rooster could be out-takes from the Beach Boy’s Pet Sounds”

That’s pretty good……Right?

A Viberatto has released it’s first full length CD, and it is entitled A.  Featuring Jimmy Goodman on Vibraphone, Glockenspiel and more, with Tony Levin, Garth Hudson, Jane Scarpantoni, Ross Rice, Chris Macchia, Nat Russel and Maja Berwald.  We are really proud of this one.  Pick up a copy yourself at itunes…..

We just finished up a several month long project, several days recording acoustic guitar and vocal album by Cosby Gibson.  Really good stuff, we will let you know when it is out.

Kingston NY film maker Chris Finlay has used the track “East” in his short autobiographical piece “Chris’ Story”.  ”East” features prominently in the film, setting the optimistic mood of Chris getting back into film making after many years, about 3 minutes into the piece.  Check out the video on YouTube here.  Get ready for the release of A on June 21st!

Last weekend was the another recording session for the Umbrella Brigade, with Whitey Sterling completing all but one song of vocals.  This record is a bit of a departure from the last one, as the band here has added live drums and guitar, and changed up membership.  This new CD is being recorded by Hillary Johnson (HiFi Hil), who notably worked on the very first Stiffs Inc. single, produced by Rick Bacchus, as well as doing recording for the Ramones.

The CD will be released along with a book with illustrations by Peter Benedetti!

A Viberatto now has a Fan Page on Facebook.  You can find up to date info about the group and also some links to hear a bit of the music.  This is also where we will be posting our soon to be completed video…..

Here is the link to join: A VIBERATTO on Facebook

With the CD still on target for a first day of summer release, we have been completed the filming and begun the editing for the video for our track called “Now”.  Using Imovie, we are doing this completely in house.  Sometimes it seems like a better video camera could really be helpful, but this one is all we have here…..I’ll keep you posted on the progress of this…..

went to see tony levin’s band, the stickmen, on Sunday night at the Bearsville Theater.  aMazing – three virtuosos.  2 chapman stick players and the drummer.  my wife, kate, had never seen the chapman bass played before and was blown away.  she said ‘i don’t know why every musician wouldn’t want to know how to play that instrument’.  i mentioned the difficulty.  anyway, check them out if you get a chance.  it’s hard hitting, beautiful and interesting.

Stick Men with Tony Levin, Michael Bernier, and Pat Mastelotto

Leopard Recording Studio has started a blog!  This will be the place for us to ramble on about things that are going on both in and out of our studio.  The thing with blogs, they are only good if you actually do blog.  Hopefully we can have enough to say here to keep it going…..