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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (July 28, 2016) – Grammy-award winning producer, songwriter and musician John McEuen has announced his plans to release his sixth solo album titled MADE IN BROOKLYN (Chesky Records). The 16-track collection of signature originals and songs from yesteryear was created in similar fashion to the landmark WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN and will appeal to all genres and all generations. MADE IN BROOKLYN is scheduled for a September 30, 2016 release.

Much like the iconic Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN album (initiated by McEuen in 1971), John convened an exceptional group of musicians (all of whom have been instrumental in molding American Music in their own right) in Brooklyn. Together they created a “music-to-your-ears” audio feast purposefully produced to enable the listener an “in-studio experience.”

“With the CIRCLE projects, my brother Bill’s production method put all the players in a circle, with all the mics mixed live to two tracks. The highest quality method at the time--it made listeners feel like they were sitting in the front row of a small concert,” McEuen introduced. “The Chesky technology utilizes just one special binaural mic and the performers circle around it; the listener feels like they’re in the band.”

MADE IN BROOKLYN, part of Chesky’s Binaural + Series, is poised to rank among the audiophiles’ top “must-have” recordings. Borrowing from an old-fashioned, live production method, all musicians were strategically positioned in a reverberant church (located in Brooklyn, NY) for a single-pass recording. The live performances were captured in high-resolution (24-bit/192kHz) with the single “Dummy Head” microphone system, affectionately named “LARS.” (Lars' ear microphones are specially calibrated to recreate the spatial characteristics of human hearing to offer a spacious, lush and multi-dimensional listening experience).

“Put on a set of headphones and you’ll hear the three-dimensional sound Chesky recordings have become known for,” said Norman Chesky, President of Chesky Records. “MADE IN BROOKLYN is exquisite; you’ll hear some of the most natural and pure cool music ever recorded. We’re extremely proud of John’s project as an example of musical perfection with the binaural process.”


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