Noah Reid

Noah Reid Instagram – Today “GEMINI” finds its way fully into the world. I think I thought I would give it to myself as a birthday present, but now it feels more like the birthday belongs to the record itself. Music is meant to be given away, passed around, repurposed and recycled. It never really belonged to me anyway, as it never would have been made in the first place without so many incredible contributions from a community I feel so lucky to be a part of.
Matthew Barber and I started talking about making a new record at a Jays game, and I couldn’t have asked for a better partner to embark on this project with. His musicality and professionalism reigned over every moment of the process and made for an extremely relaxed and pleasant working atmosphere at the beautiful Union Sound Company recording studio. Chris Stringer engineered our sessions with assistance from Darren McGill, and their technical and musical expertise is one of the reasons this record feels so good to me. The piano at Union is another, which Chris informed me on day one had been played by the great Canadian jazz icon Oscar Peterson. Chris also mixed the songs beautifully, shepherding them from raw recordings to the carefully considered songs that make up the record. | Posted on 30/May/2020 00:11:25