Tribarac

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Sweet Soul

I think now that commerciality is sincerity. If you do what you think that you like and do it well — that’s the most commercial position you can be in.

Quincy Jones, Jazz Professional, 1965

Map

We are a twenty–five minute drive from Cork City, five minutes from Macroom and eleven hours and forty minutes from Detroit, Michigan.
Map by Google

The final few minutes drive into rural Cork can be something of a trial if you are not generally used to anything less than an eight–lane highway — do remember to keep to the left and watch out for sight–seeing cows.

A Tanglewood guitar hanging on a black and white regional road sign labelled Ruisín (Gaeilge) and Rusheen (English) near Macroom, County Cork, Republic of Ireland.

Separate Recording rooms let you see with no audio spill. A dead sound Vocal Booth, Drum Room with a little Air, both visible from the Live Room. We've even been asked to turn the drums up on occasions!

Session Players

Billy Joel claims that he played piano on a demo for The Shangri–Las Leader of the Pack as a then–unknown session player in 1964. However, the piano part in the final take was played by a staff musician at Ultrasonic Recording Studios, Roger Rossi.