Two weeks ago, I had the great pleasure of recording Lionel Haas’ highly talented jazz trio with Tomas Hobzek on drums and Giuseppe Bottiglieri on double-bass. I really love jazz as a listener so recording this type of music is almost too enjoyable to be considered work, especially when its played by musicians at this [...]

Rave Reviews for Captain Zorx Stimmungsattacke
I’ve known Captain Zorx Stimmungsattacke for several years now. I played together with Thomas Holzhausen a few years ago and I recorded and mixed their first self-titled album. We’ve always had a splendid time together, they’re a great band with tons of crazy ideas and their always open to experimentation in the studio. Starting way [...]

Ballerinas Video
Last week, Berlin rockers Ballerinas were at Hot Milk Studio recording and filming “unplugged” videos. They came in with a catchy concept for a series of videos, we’re looking forward to seeing the results sometime soon on YouTube. We’ll let you know when the first video is online! Here’s the Ballerinas on myspace. … and [...]

Bronsen
Bronsen is a project led by singer-guitarist Eric Brauner with Max S. on drums, Alex Bayer on bass and Andreas Binder on guitars. All lyrics are by Annette Heilfurth. From Fall 2010 to Spring 2011, we recorded, mixed and mastered the following 5 tracks: – I Can Do Better – Waiting For My Blue-Eyed Girl [...]

Hearttones Project
Beginning in 2010 and continuing throughout 2011, I had the pleasure of working with Philipp von Rothkirch on his Hearttones project. One day in 2009, Philipp stumbled across my newly opened Hot Milk Studio, just one street away from Philipp’s own apartment. As chance would have it, we both became fathers within just one day [...]

Studio time with The Kirtaniyas
The Kirtaniyas spent the summer of 2011 recording their first album at Hotmilk Studio in Berlin, Germany.

New site coming soon …
A new website is on its way … we’re still working on some final tweaks, so stay tuned. At this point, big thanks go out to Saraswati from Kirtaniyas who did the outstanding graphic design and WordPress implementation! Thanks Saras!

Cremildo de Caifaz – Ciconia Ciconia
Cremildo de Caifaz is a jazz guitarist and songwriter from Maputo, Mozambique who moved as a teenager to East Berlin in what was then the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He developed his own unique technique of playing a Gibson jazz guitar with his thumb and fingers and super thick gauge-13 strings. In past years, he [...]










