{"id":2342,"date":"2016-11-03T09:55:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T09:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:57:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T09:57:45","slug":"john-doe-trio-releases-album-under-smfas-foundry-studio-recording-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2016\/11\/03\/john-doe-trio-releases-album-under-smfas-foundry-studio-recording-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"John Doe Trio releases album under SMFA\u2019s Foundry Studio recording contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2016\/11\/foundryPRpic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2343\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2016\/11\/foundryPRpic.png\" alt=\"foundryprpic\" width=\"292\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2016\/11\/foundryPRpic.png 292w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2016\/11\/foundryPRpic-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The John Doe Trio<\/em>, an exciting\u00a0Kent based three piece blues-rock band, is the first band to release an album under the School of Music and Fine Art\u2019s Foundry Studio recording contract. The album <em>Stranger<\/em> is now available on iTunes, Amazon, HMV, and Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>Based in the Chatham Historic Dockyard, The Foundry provides flagship music industry-standard facilities for the degree programmes, containing a 5.1 Control Room with a collection of outboard gear, a Live Room and Vocal Booth, with the studio designed by DACS Audio, who have over 25 years of field experience in Studio Design, Audio Installation, and Acoustic Treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Marsh, the School\u2019s Technical Manager and\u00a0Enterprise Liaison\u00a0said,\u00a0 \u201c<em>The foundry recording contract is a unique collaborative opportunity for artists to access the high end recording facilities and staff expertise that the school offers.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>Frank Walker, the studio engineer added, <em>\u201cBeing able to use the foundry gave us the flexibility to capture the authentic John Doe Trio sound. Recording a band of this calibre made full use of the studio and I was really pleased with the results.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The band, comprising Phil Woollett on vocals and guitar, Craig Ferguson on bass and Paul Townsend on drums, have been receiving glowing reports from the blues radio and online fraternity for their debut album, with Kevin Beale of Ridge Radio describing it as <em>&#8220;a masterpiece&#8221;.<\/em>\u00a0 As well as traditional blues and blues-rock, the album combines influences of funk, bluegrass and even jazz in the creation of a truly exciting sound, with Phil also swapping his traditional guitars for lap steel and even a homemade cigar box instruments\u00a0for stunning results.<\/p>\n<p>After an extremely successful launch night at one of Kent&#8217;s premier regular live music venues, the band intend to follow up the release of <em>Stranger<\/em> with a number of high profile live\u00a0shows over the next twelve months.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For further information go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johndoeblues.co.uk\/\">www.johndoeblues.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/johndoeblues\">www.facebook.com\/johndoeblues<\/a>\u00a0or twitter @johndoeblues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The John Doe Trio, an exciting\u00a0Kent based three piece blues-rock band, is the first band to release an album under the School of Music and Fine Art\u2019s Foundry Studio recording contract. The album Stranger is now available on iTunes, Amazon, HMV, and Spotify. Based in the Chatham Historic Dockyard, The Foundry provides flagship music &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2016\/11\/03\/john-doe-trio-releases-album-under-smfas-foundry-studio-recording-contract\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Doe Trio releases album under SMFA\u2019s Foundry Studio recording contract<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22922,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1252,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2345,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions\/2345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}