The Production Personnel
Barry Sage
Barry Sage was born in Sidcup, Kent, UK in 1955. He started as a Tea boy at Trident Studios in 1974, graduating to Tape Operator and Assistant Engineer at Island Record's Basing Street Studios throughout the late seventies becoming the chief assistant on many of the top Island albums of the period. Then, starting with assisting on the Rolling Stone's "Some Girls" and "Tattoo You" albums, he progressed to Engineer and finally Producer, freelancing for diverse talents in the Punk and New Romantic era's of the 80's. As head engineer for Advision Studio's Pumacrest Mobile, 1986 saw him begin his first forays into Spain and the Latin markets, He became semi-resident in Spain, producing albums for La Dama Se Esconde and Heroica as well as Orquesta Mondragon and La Fura dels Baus amongst others.
The 90's saw a continued balance of his time working in Spain and the UK, as well as valued time spent on projects in Chile and Cuba, working with celebrated artists on both sides of the Atlantic including Eliades Ochoa, La Viejo Trova, Charlie Garcia, Miguel Rios and Fito Pais, Solar, Nicole and Upa. The late nineties and early millennium have seen Barry's greatest commercial achievements in production work for the pop groups La Oreja de Van Gogh and Melon Diesel, both platinum-selling projects for Sony, Spain.
Barry has visited Cuba twice. Once to Santiago de Cuba to record the album "La Brujeria" by "Los Guanches" as well as tracks by other artist's signed to Virgin, Spain, and secondly to Havana to record the contents of this product. All other Cuban recordings and mixing that Barry has produced, have been completed in Zaragoza and Madrid, Spain.
Barry's English work spans many genres and styles, although rock/guitar based pop predominates his discography as well as his vast experience in the live recording field. Projects include Zodiac Mindwarp, New Order, The Kitchen's of Distinction, Prince, Take That, The Princes Trust, Peter & The Test Tube Babies and work on the BBC's "Perfect Day" promo amongst others. A full listing can be found at www.barrysage.co.uk.
Gonzalo Lasheras was born in Zaragoza, Spain, in 1960.
He studied in San Sebastian where he began playing music and collaborated in a variety of bands.
In 1974 (at age 14), he took part in the jazz festival of Donosti. In 1980 he took musical studies with Tim Harris in Houston, USA. Between 1981 and 1984 he returned to Spain to collaborate with a variety of different bands in Zaragoza, and in 1985 he moved to Madrid, where he began working as a session musician.
From 1988 he started producing, working with artists as diverse as, Los Rosillo, Javier Corcovado and Diego Vasallo, continuing into the nineties with Rey Luy, Dias de Vino y Rosas, and touring with Duncan Dhu. He also became component and producer of Esclarecidos and collaborated on projects with Manuel Illan and Suso Saez.
In 1992 he began working with Cristina y Los Subterraneos as musical director, and Luis Eduardo Aute as musical director, producer and arranger on his records "Slowly", "Alevos’a", "Mano a Mano" (with Cuban composer and artist Silvio Rodriguez), "Animal", "Aire Invisible", "Un Perro Llamado Dolor" and "Alas y Balas". In 1996, and upon building his own recording studio, he recorded and produced two albums by Jorge Drexler - "Vaiven" and "Llueve" as well as three by Luis Eduardo Aute - "Aire Invisible", "Un Perro Llamado Dolor" and "Alas y Balas".
He has continued working on collaborations with Silvio Rodriguez, as well as those with Javier Alvarez, Luz Casal, Pablo Guerrero, Suso Saiz, Tino de Giraldo, Ana Torroja, Miguel Rios, Inma Serrano, Amaral Txetxo Bengoetxea and Pasion Vega as well as recording albums by Larry Martin, Calamity, Leo Sidran, Carmen Paris, German Barcelo (Argentina), La Sociedad (Chile), Ines Fonseca, Andres Lewin, Inma Serrano, Nerea and Amaral amongst others
Gonzalo continues to work with some of the finest artists from Spain
and South America and has recently, over the last two years, been producing
artists in North America as well. (Mark Murphy, Jonathan Grove, Benny
Weinback, Peter Srinke Trio and Leo Sidran).
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