
News
JULY 2009
At Old Soul Studios Kenny Siegal has been putting the finishing touches on new records with Joseph Arthur, Mother Fletcher, and Jonathan Spottiswoode. Johnny Society will be opening for Blues Traveler Fri July 31st @ Lowell Summer Music Festival

Amanda Palmer and Nervous Cabaret
Brooklyn Vegan
Nervous Cabaret are opening for Amanda Palmer on this tour. They're also her backing band. Byran just caught the show in Maine...

John Dyer's Go Stay Play Story
The making of "GOSTAYPLAY"...or...The Ballad of Shoe,
Little Tity, Little Rocky Balboa, & Brian.

Music Review: Ratatat
Gigwise
When you learn about how one of your favourite albums was recorded, it’s hard not to enthuse about it all every time you mention the record. Take Bon Iver for example, rooted to the spot accompanied by the "cabin talk"...

Mysteries of the Old Soul (album)
Wikipedia
The record, which went under Mysteries of the Old Soul as a working title, was recorded during the summer of 2007 in the Catskill Mountains, in a "house inhabited by spirits"...

Music Review: Ratatat
Drowned in Sound
Whereas most acts get berated for churning out material with the same formula, Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat’s return with LP3 and the same hurdy-gurdy waltz they’ve always had avoids such a pitfall, as their material proves as intoxicating as ever...

Music Review: Ratatat
Pasta Primavera
When Ratatat blew into the music scene a few years back, many (including myself) were simply in awe of their dynamic synth guitar arena club power beats. Classics was an instant classic...

Music Review: Ratatat
Reax Magazine
As Ratatat, Evan Mast and Mike Stroud have spent the last five years tearing down the wall between guitar-driven indie-rock and glitchy, ultramodern laptop electronica. Their simultaneously beat-driven and atmospheric efforts have made them both underground-venue...

6 Questions: Ratatat
CMU Daily
Ratatat stormed onto the scene in 2004 with their debut single 'Seventeen Years', which launched their idiosyncratic mix of rock, electronica and hip hop to an unsuspecting world...

Ratatat Branch Out and Gear Up
Village Voice
Last fall, while you were still debating whether LCD Soundsystem or Battles was the best electro-rock band of 2007, Ratatat— Brooklyn's other white meat—were upstate in Catskill, holed up at an old mansion where former president Martin Van Buren got married...

Ratatat, Catskill
The Age (Australia)
RATATAT'S music is a little unconventional. There is no singing, no verse-chorus-verse structures and the duo's sound seems based around a clash between machine-made beats, baroque-inflected classical music and the joys of hair-metal guitar...

Music Review: Ratatat
MFM
Ratatat have been slowly causing a fuss in the musical expertee community. Third-record, aptly titled 'LP3' is on the brink of finding itself in all good record stores and all good people's end of year lists...

Music Review: Ratatat
The Vine
Super-hip New York duo Ratatat left the confines of Gotham's minimalist electro glam for the wilds of the Catskills on their third album LP3. It emerged as a neo-colonial traipse, coloured by tribal rhythms and quaint harpsichord...

Music Review: Ratatat
Flower Booking
LP3 is the third studio album from Ratatat, the follow-up to 2006's Classics and 2004's self-titled debut. Since the release of Classics, Ratatat have toured relentlessly, headlining shows around the world...

Music Review: Ratatat
White Flight
I wonder if anyone else has secretly taken a RATATAT song and recorded their own vocal track over it. I did. In 2004 I had just returned from a literal mind-blowing journey in Peru and I was oddly placed in the basement of my ex-neighbors house in the suburbs of Nowhere, Kansas...

Music Review: Ratatat
Prefix Magazine
Everybody's favorite NYC electrorock duo, Ratatat, is about to get less rock/guitar-oriented than ever for their third album, the imaginatively titled LP3, due July 8 on XL. Perhaps in an effort to keep themselves out of future editions of Guitar Hero...

Caliente: From Haunted House
Comes Ratatat's Sound
Arizona Starnet
Ratatat recorded "LP3" in a ghost-ridden house in upstate New York called Old Soul Studios, owned by a fedora-wearing music fanatic who goes by the name The Wolf...

Music Review:
Larkin Grimm: Parplar
Jam Base
Curioser and curioser. Opening out like a celestial telescope and retracting into spaces of cavernous privacy and pecking glossolalia, Larkin Grimm isn't your typical girly singer-songwriter. The child of hippies...

Music Review: Larkin Grimm: Parplar
Sound Fix
For those of you who thought the freak-folk movement was missing a dollop or two of genuine freakiness, Larkin Grimm is your girl. On Parplar, her Young God debut, Grimm, the product of Appalachian hippie cult parents and a Yale education...

Music Review: Larkin Grimm: Parplar
Brainwashed
Some CDs beg to be played over and over again. This is one of those times when the disc absolutely refuses to go back into its case and demands to go back in the player. Normally I cannot listen to an album more than once a day but Larkin Grimm's third album makes for a rare exception...

Music Review: Larkin Grimm: Parplar
The Boston Globe
This untamed, moon-worshiping, blood-and-guts Appalachian gypsy is a peculiar folkie. Larkin Grimm's 15-song debut for Michael Gira's Young God label is informed by sex magic, the Holy Ghost, and lizards...

Music Review: Larkin Grimm:
Slap Skateboard Magazine
Just recounting the brief synopsis of Larkin Grimm!s life—that she grew up in a cult until the age of six, then spent the rest of her childhood in the Appalachians, frequently sleeps outdoors, has no permanent address...

Music Review: Apollo Sunshine
Paste Magazine
Boston band Apollo Sunshine first appeared on the radar in 2003, when it released promising debut Katonah. Two years later, in 2005, the band stepped it up with an impressive self-titled sophomore album...
Following in the footsteps of Motown, Sun Studios, Bearsville, and Fame Recording Studios (Muscle Shoals), OLD SOUL STUDIOS is a classic unified vision of music; studio, record production, and record label, all under one roof. Old Soul's Studio was built and designed by songwriters / musicians Kenny Siegal (from the NY band "Johnny Society") and Gwen Snyder Siegal (Sundazed Records recording artist "Blueberry").It is a musician / songwriter/ producer friendly environment that inspires innovative ideas and inspired performances in all artists that walk through its' doors . Old Soul is located in the historic town of Catskill, NY (100 miles North of NYC) in a 5 bedroom Greek Revival and Italianate Style historic home that is registered on the National Historic Registry for its significant architectural design.
Old Soul Studios has an extensive collection of vintage and new musical instruments. Vintage analog equipment as well as state of the art digital recording gear are utilizied to get the best possible results. The studio is equipped to be able to handle most recording projects. For booking studio time or licensing original music from Old Soul Recording Artists, please contact us using our email form above.



