Saltlands Studio is a recording studio based in the New York City neighborhood of Dumbo, Brooklyn, founded in 2007 by owner Steve Salett and partners Dawn Landes and Gary Maurer.Dollar, Steve. "Rocking Near the F Train". The Wall Street Journal. 21 March 2011. It was later joined by music producers and engineers Eli Janney, Jim Smith, and Aaron Rutledge. The studio gained notoriety with records by French Kicks,CD Universe. French Kicks Swimming CD. 31 March 2008. Alexi Murdoch, Josh Ritter, The Soft Pack, Wilco,Chiu, David. "A Recording Studio in Brooklyn's DUMBO". NewBeats. 17 Mat 2010. Robbers on High Street, Obits, and the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. The studio also functions as a collective of commercial composers, and in the spring of 2010 the studio received attention for the composition of a song that was awarded the Cannes Lions 2010 "Best Use of Music in a Commercial" Award for the Match.com commercial.Match.com commercial at YouTube.
In 2010, Larry Crane interviewed Dawn Landes of Saltlands. The article was featured in Issue No. 80 of TapeOp.Tape Op Issue #80: Nov / Dec 2010 In March 2011, Janice Brown of SonicScoop interviewed Steve Salett and producer/engineer Gary Maurer.
Artists and visiting producers who have recorded at Saltlands include:
Alexi Murdoch Allie Moss Andrew Vladeck Anne Heaton Annie Keating Arizona Au Revoir Simone Balthrop, Alabama The Bandana Splits Benjamin Cartel Bob Hoffnar Brendan Canty Brian Bender Caithlin De Marrais Chris Erikson Dawn Landes Don Piper Doveman Drazy Hoops End Up Records The Famous Letters The Fancy Shapes Frally French Kicks Geoff Sanoff The Gray Goods Girl Friday Hem Ithaca Jason Mercer Jeff Hill Jeremy Sisto Jesse Neumann and Wolf Face Jolie Holland Josh Ritter Julia Steele Allen Mark Ganzglass Matt Shane Matt Trowbridge Michael Shannon Milan McKinnley Motion City Soundtrack My Sister in 1994 The Ne'er Do Evers Nick Stumpf Nick Zinner Norden Bombsight Obits The Oxygen Ponies Pela Peter Salett The Poison Tree The Present PROJECT Trio Randy Russo Ray Rizzo Robbers on High Street Ryan Miller (Guster) Rusty Santos (Animal Collective, The Present) Sam Amidon Sam Kassirer Sarah Blust Seb Leon Shahzad Ismaily (Tom Waits) Sondre Lerche Thieving IronsThieving Irons at rslblog.com Thom Monahan Tim "Love" Lee Tjeerd Bomhof (Voicst) Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players Tuppy the Band Turner Cody Walter Martin We Are Augustines Wilco
See also So Runs the World Away Swimming The Soft Pack
References
External links
Saltlands at sonicscoop.com Saltlands: A Recording Studio in Brooklyn's Dumbo at newbeats.com Musical Rooms Part 21 Dawn Landes at musicalrooms.wordpress.com Dawn Landess Secret Dauce at huffingtonpost.com Making What Lasts -- Episode 70: Life&Death Dawn&Tom at vimeo.com