Students In The Mix During Recording Session with Grammy-Award Winning Band Steel Pulse and Acclaimed Engineer Errol Brown
Associate Professor Sten Isachsen with Acclaimed Engineer Errol Brown in the Vianna-Brignola Recording Studio in the School of Music.
Grammy-award winning reggae band Steel Pulse was on campus on Sept. 23, recording two songs for their upcoming album with acclaimed engineer Errol Brown in the School of Music’s Vianna-Brignola Recording Studio. Associate Professor Sten Isachsen oversaw the recording session and six of his Music Audio Technology students assisted: Alex James, Gisela Barrett, Ben Gravel, Vincent Marotta, Connor Shearer, and Jayden Mignot.
Student Jayden Mignot started out by strategically placing microphones inside the drums with Brown and later found himself with the amazing opportunity to lend backing vocals and keyboards to two of the tracks. He said, “It is insane. Errol was such a huge part of my musical catalog growing up, because I’m Jamaican so I listen to a lot of reggae, especially the things that he’s produced, so to have the chance to work with him is surreal.”
Steel Pulse formed in 1975 in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, England, and earned a Grammy Award for their 1986 album Babylon the Bandit. They have been nominated for their albums: Victims (1991), Rastafari Centennial (1992), Rage and Fury (1998), Living Legacy (2000), and Mass Manipulation (2019). Brown is an internationally-recognized audio engineer who recorded and mixed albums with Bob Marley & The Wailers, Rita Marley, Burning Spear, and Third World, and was Shaggy's live sound engineer. He is currently touring with Steel Pulse.