Exciting couple of months here at Let ‘Em In! The wonderful Lady Lamb the Beekeeper (Aly Spaltro) came in to record a cover of Bob Dylan’s “All I Really Want to Do” for Brooklyn Based’ BB Songs series. The song (and accompanying video) proved very successful, getting featured on Perez Hilton and Rolling Stone.

Lady Lamb the Beekeeper

Before recording the tune, Aly mentioned that she really liked Cher’s cover of the song from the 1960s, which was produced by Sonny Bono (a Phil Spector mentee) and was most likely recorded at the famed Gold Star Studios. As such, we relied heavily on room mics and lots of chamber reverb for the mix. The experience was a wonderful collaboration and house engineer/producer Nadim is currently at work producing Lady Lamb’s full-length.

We’re thrilled that the Eon Contemporary Orchestra’s cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” is finally up. Eighteen (!) string musicians piled into the studio for the project. It was important that we get a muscular drum sound. It didn’t hurt to have the excellent  Walker Adams on the kit, but we again made use of room mics, much as Led Zeppelin was known to do. One mic was placed just about as far away from the drums as possible, in the control room with the door open. It sounded amazing.

Last but not least, make sure to check out “The Devil You Know” by The Loom (recorded and mixed by Nadim for Brooklyn Based). The band recently released their full-length debut, Teeth, on Crossbill Records.

Guten tag! Keepin’ busy here….

Brooklyn-based band Worry the Worm just released their EP, which was recorded and mixed by Nadim over the summer.  The songs feature punchy guitars, arresting drum patterns, and prominent vocals that float nicely above it all. As an aside, we were happy to put the studio’s new Yamaha Recording Custom drum kit to use and it is featured prominently on the EP.

Worry the Worm EP

!!! (chk chk chk) came in for a couple of days in September to record vocals for a track on their upcoming album. If you don’t know !!!, check out this video.

The latest installment of BB Songs is up! Every month, the publication Brooklyn Based picks a local artist or band to record a song at Let ‘Em In. We’re excited to be involved with this on-going project and glad to help up-and-coming Brooklyn bands get some exposure.

For this latest installment of BB Songs, The Shondes recorded a cover of Pat Benatar’s “Heartbreaker”. Benatar, as it turns out, is also from our fair borough. Here’s a rather thorough list of distinguished Brooklynites that we found quite entertaining.

Milagres, who recorded drums, strings, and piano here many months ago, have finally released their full-length “Glowing Mouth” on the Kill Rock Stars label. They are currently on a national tour.

Finally, we were pleased to host a couple recording sessions with the Itty Biddies. They are an all-woman band who play children’s music that is at once catchy and refined. We had fun hearing them effortlessly switch from jazz to pop to rock, etc.