Roger Moutenot

New Jersey-born producer Roger Moutenot made his career as an anachronism: a Nashville-based producer/engineer who had zero fascination with recording nation music. You start with ten years of studio function in Manhattan studios with both mainstream and avant-garde works, Moutenot slowly constructed a customers of idiosyncratic rock and roll rings, including Sleater-Kinney, along with a long-standing romantic relationship with indie stalwarts Yo La Tengo. Elevated in Cliffside Recreation area, NJ — with a look at from the Manhattan skyline — Moutenot constructed a basement studio room for his personal music group and was quickly recording clothes from neighboring cities. Graduating from senior high school in 1975, he went to the Institute of Sound Research in NY and scammed his method into a work at Manhattan’s Skyline Studios by pretending to be always a carpenter. Gradually, he earned careers there like a tape operator, an associate, and by the past due ’80s, the studio’s main engineer, where he caused rings like Laurie Anderson, THEY COULD BE Giants, and 10,000 Maniacs. When Chic’s Nile Rogers booked one of is own periodic six-month remains, Moutenot proceeded to go freelance. He worked well in the Chung Ruler House of Metallic on tasks for Run-D.M.C. as well as the Beastie Young boys, and elsewhere manufactured for the cream from the flourishing downtown avant-garde picture, including jazz music artists like John Zorn and Don Byron. In 1993, he created Painful, the 6th recording for Yo La Tengo, starting a fruitful romantic relationship that has led to some seven full-lengths up to now, like the band’s most widely used and critically acclaimed albums 1997’s I COULD Hear the very center Beating as you and 2000’s AND Nothing at all Turned Itself Inside Out. In 1994, he relocated to Nashville, where he steadfastly prevented country tasks, and initially had trouble getting prior collaborators to Tennessee. An opportunity collaboration with vocalist/songwriter/manufacturer Paula Cole resulted in 1996’s double-platinum, Grammy-nominated This Fireplace. As his use Yo La Tengo continuing at Nashville’s Alex the fantastic studios using its complete complement of classic organs, Moutenot rebuilt his customer list. He created albums for Joseph Arthur, Nashville indie staples Lambchop, popsters Beulah, and documented even more mainstream fare, like songwriter Josh Rouse, and a Grammy-nominated record by Jefferson Aircraft/Popular Tuna guitarist Jorma Kaukonen. His credits grew to add Lou Reed, Rosanne Money, John Cale, among others. In the first 2000s, Moutenot opened up his personal Haptown studio room in Nashville.