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RECORDING TECHNIQUES WITH ALAIN JOHANNES

When you’re making your own music, do you follow the same formulas you would as a producer with any other band, or do you need to approach it from a different perspective?

I approach every project in the way that I feel is most natural – my resonance and my empathy and my desire to connect to the project as a part of it, whether as an assistant, a guide or a team player, or a family member to the music – which means that every time I work on a new record, it’s a different set of things that happen. I don’t have one definitive way of doing it. First of all, I need to resonate with what the artist I’m producing wants to achieve, and figure out what my

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