Woodmere David Mash

• 1 Mashine Blues 04:00
• 2 Ready to Go 05:10
• 3 Slice 04:06
• 4 Encased in Time, Pt I: Encased 05:41
• 5 Encased in Time, Pt. II: Embittered 04:37
• 6 Encsed in Time, Pt. III: Embattled 04:55
• 7 Mr. Joe Z 04:13
• 8 Lullaby 04:21
• 9 From a Distance 05:13
• 10 Chick'n Pick'n 03:35
• 11 Woodmere 06:18
• Total Runtime 52:09

Info for Woodmere

We moved into our home on Woodmere Road in 1996, and after 25 years we are starting to see the end of the road here. But this was the first place where I’ve had a purpose built home production space, with its own entrance separate from the house. My first composition in my new room was “Mashine Blues” and the second was the title track Woodmere, expressing the joy of having a really good sounding room in which to compose and produce my music. So this album is really a tribute to this home my wife Erica and I have built, as we begin to thin of leaving for our next phase, and a return to some of my earlier writing (as well as some brand new pieces too!).

This was the very first piece I produced in my new studio after we moved into the house. Our neighbor/contractor friend Billy Gorman built the studio space for me in what had been a utility space that supported the master bedroom, which had been added on, and which extended beyond the front of the original home. the space while small, is sonically isolated and well treated for making electronic music. I started the piece with the machine-like ostinato, and then began adding tracks and decided to make it a minor blues form with an interesting turn-around, using the bVI to bVII progression borrowed from natural minor. I play all the tracks except for Alto saxophone, which is Bruce Nifong.

or the longest time, this piece sat in my portfolio un-finished and un-released, and titled just “Reggae.” I had bought some drum samples and discovered that some were by my friend Kenwood Denard. So I used Kenwood’s tracks as a building block for the tune. Then I decided to rock out on the guitar solo. And for Bruce’s solos I used an envelope follower and wah-filter and lots of delay to add interesting color to his jazzy licks! So why is it called Slice? Don’t ask. I won’t tell…

David Mash, all instruments
Bruce Nifong, alto saxophone

David Mash
is a guitarist, composer, producer, synthesist, author, educator, and futurist. He retired in 2017 as Senior Vice President for Innovation, Strategy, and Technology at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, where he had worked for over 40 years. David was the founding chair of Berklee’s Music Synthesis Department (now known as Electronic Production and Design). David has collaborated on development and artistic projects with leaders in the multimedia and music industries such as Kodak, Adobe Systems, Digidesign/Avid, Opcode, Kurzweil, Yamaha, Roland, Korg, Softube, Fishman Transducers, Godin Guitars, and many others.

David is past International Chair for Electronic Music for the International Association of Jazz Educators, was a founding board member of the Technology Institute for Music Educators (TI:ME), and recently retired as the Founding Executive Chair of the Avid Customer Association board. In addition to recently joining the Board for The Record Co., he is currently President of the board for the Bob Moog Foundation and chairs the Alan R. Pearlman (ARP) Foundation.

Today he is writing and producing music full-time, releasing his own music under the “Mashine Music” and “Stefan” personas, and you can find his work wherever you normally find digital music (Amazon, Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, CDBaby, etc…). He’s also producing music for other artists with his long-time collaborator and friend Peter Bell, under the name “Bar Of 2 Productions.”

This album contains no booklet.