If you ever wanted to go into the studio and take a peek behind the scenes of some of your favourite recordings, this podcast might be just the treat for you. Hosted by journalist and broadcaster Kate Hutchinson (also known from the podcast ‘The Last Bohemians’), Studio Radicals brings together visionaries with a unique approach to making, mixing and recording music.
The first three episodes dropped on 23rd April and episode one starts strong with Marta Salogni, an Italian recording engineer, producer and mixer based in London who produced English Teacher’s Mercury Prize-winning debut This Could Be Texas, was hand-picked by Björk to work on her 2017 album Utopia in Iceland and was called ‘the luminary’ by Pitchfork.
Episode two meets the rock heavyweight Catherine Marks, the 2023 Grammy winner for her work on boygenius‘s The Record, whereas episode three explores Ebonie Smith‘s journey from gospel choir to engineering the Hamilton soundtrack, collaborating with Angela Davis and Roberta Flack, and founding Gender Amplified, an initiative supporting women and gender-expansive individuals working in music production.
Still to come are conversations with the electronic pioneer Suzanne Ciani whose foray into the Buchla analogue synthesizer in the 1970s inspired generations to come, Miami-based engineer Maria Elisa Ayerbe – a genre-defying voice in Latin alternative music, composer Hannah Peel who blends electronic music and environmental sounds in striking soundscapes, vocal engineer Ramera Abraham who has worked with UK pop royalty including Adele and Little Mix, and Abbey Road-based mastering engineer Cicely Balston, who has been at the dials for the UK jazz star Nubya Garcia among others.
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