Marc Urselli

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  • Les Paul movie (I’m in it too!)

    Chasing Sound! Les Paul at 90I have signed a few release forms before, mostly for documentaries shot in studios I was working at, but this is certainly the biggest of those movies and probably the one I am most proud of. One of the few (maybe the only) authorized feature-length biography films about the man who started it all, “Chasing Sound! Les Paul at 90” was shot in HD by producers John Paulson, James Arntz and Glenn Aveni.

    I remember those days clearly. The producers were setting up cameras: I was setting up an audio feed for them while setting up for my mix of the Sam Cooke with Jeff Beck song “Good News”… On another day of shooting David Fricke (senior editor at Rolling Stone magazine) was interviewing Les and producers Bob Cutarella and Fran Cathcart were talking to everyone, answering questions left and right. Believe it or not, the wine-red Les Paul guitar with Les’ and Buddy Guy’s signatures on it that Les is hugging and holding in his lap in the movie and on the front page of the Rolling Stone article, was my first Les Paul guitar ever – thanks to my buddy Carlos Cartagena from the Truents who gave it to me!).

    I missed the premiere + show of the movie that took place June 13th so I haven’t even seen the film yet, but I will make sure to see it when it premieres on PBS, July 11th at 9pm (EST) and I will buy myself a DVD of it as soon as that is released.

    In the meantime you guys can all check out the official Les Paul film website as well as the trailer here:

  • Ines: work started at EastSide Sound

    Ines is a very talented pop singer from Estonia whom I started working with recently.

    Ines lives between New York and Estonia, where she is very popular and is among the country’s best selling artists.

    We recently got together at EastSide Sound to record the vocals for her new track. Here are some pictures of Ines and myself hard at work:

    Ines singingInes singingInes and MarcInes and MarcInes and MarcInes and Marc after the session

  • The First Post

    I’ve been wanting to write the first post for a long time now, but I’ve been so busy that I never got around it… I remember setting dates for myself: January 1st (new year, new blog), January 31st (new birthday, new blog) and other significant dates like that, but in my life time is such a commodity that you must prioritize, and rambling on about myself is certainly not one of my priorities… So today, on this unassuming April the 30th, 2007, I am finally (almost) ready to let this baby fly free… It still needs work but I don’t want to procrastinate any longer. I’ve read somewhere that a new blog is born in the world every 2 seconds, so couldn’t help it but to be part of that statistics.

    My website has been in need of a new version for a long time, one that would allow me to add content more easily and quicker, so here it is, finally, at last… I’ve been working on this website for months now, maybe even a year, and I want to acknowledge my friend Davide and my partner Genevieve for their tremendous help putting it together… Without them it would have taken me a lot longer!

    In the tradition of “less is more”, I am gonna keep it short and sweet as I am sure that I’ll be posting here a lot in the future anyway and I wouldn’t wanna bore you just yet!