Brian Ritrovato - Chief Engineer
Brian Ritrovato is a graduate of the Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences under the instruction of Tony Nunez and Kevin Becka, who is the Technical Director for Mix Magazine. Brian is a certified Digidesign Pro Tools recording engineer and has been playing music for over ten years focusing on drums, guitar, vocals, and digital programming. He has engineered or worked on several dozen records for local, regional, national, and international artists spanning all genres. In addition, he has worked with and assisted several reputable engineers and producers, some of which have won Grammy awards and other prestigious honors. This includes Jon Altschiller (Lenny Kravitz, John Mayer, Phish), Phil Nicolo (The Police, Aerosmith, James Taylor), Aaron Levinson (Spanish Harlem Orchestra, The Philadelphia Experiment), Dave Sinko (Yo Yo Ma, Bela Fleck) and Brian Bricklin (Martin’s Dam, Bricklin).
Marc Eimer – General Manager/Marketing Director
Marc Eimer holds a B.S. degree in Marketing from the University of Maryland. Marc has been marketing music and developing artists for the past eight years, dealing with promotions, sales, distribution, concert booking, graphic design and music production. In addition, he has managed, composed songs, performed with, recorded with, and promoted his own bands throughout Pennsylvania and Maryland. Marc has had 17 years of musical training with the guitar, piano, saxophone, and bass.
Joe Mass - Musical Director
Joe Mass' colorful musical history of recent past includes serving as musical director for Mike Sembello, Essra Mowhawk and Robert Hazard. As a producer, Joe won the John Lennon songwriting competition with David Fox. In 2005, Joe recorded with producer and Grammy Award-winner Dan Sembello on the "Revolution of the Spirit" album. Other musicians involved with the Revolution of the Spirit album include Ringo Starr, Vinnie Colaiuta, Greg Phillinganes, Jimmy Haslip and Nathan Watts. Beyond this, Joe has appeared on television with Rod Morganstern, Eric Bazillian and the Dixie Dregs. Joe is also a performer at the NAMM show for D'Andrea products.
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS:
Aaron Levinson
Phil Nicolo
Brian Bricklin
EastCoast Productions: Eddie Davis & Rick Prince
Aaron Levinson
Aaron Levinson is a veteran record label owner and Grammy-winning producer with a background as a musician/composer. He has produced and/or released 16 albums and co-composed and produced the score for the Cinemax documentary “How Do You Spell Murder?” directed by Oscar-winning directors Alan and Susan Raymond. Levinson is an ASCAP-affiliated songwriter and publisher and has an international co-publishing agreement with Evergreen Music for his musical compositions in 43 countries around the world. He is a former governor of the Philadelphia chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
Awards/Honors:
2005 Grammy Winner: Salsa Album of the Year
2004 Grammy Nominee: Salsa Album of the Year
2003 Grammy Nominee: Salsa Album of the Year
2003 Billboard Award Winner: New Salsa Artist of the Year
2001 Latin Grammy Award Nominee: Traditional Tropical Album
Professional Affiliations:
National Academy Of Recording Arts & Sciences
Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences
American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers
Association of Recorded Sound Collections
Phil Nicolo
Phil received a Bachelor of Science from Temple University in 1977. He and his brother Joe began their music careers as teenagers, fixing speakers at a nearby drive-in theater. In 1980, they founded Studio 4, a recording studio in Philadelphia. Individually and together as the Butcher Bros. (a reference to their fathers trade), they quickly established themselves as a force in all genres of music production, from rock to R&B, mainstream to cutting edge. Mr. Nicolo has attained the most coveted form of success in the music business: he has succeeded in every music genre he has tackled. His early rock credits include the Hooters, Nighthawks and Willie Nile. At the same time, he was creating music with Kriss Kross, Teddy Pendergrass and Taj Mahal. Mixes of Billy Joel's River of Dreams, the Rolling Stone's Love Is Strong, Aerosmith's Falling In Love and James Taylor's A Little More Time are all Mr. Nicolo's work. He co-produced and mixed Sting's When We Danced and re-mixed Message In A Bottle for the Police. Other credits include John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Amy Grant, Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), Luscious Jackson, Urge Overkill, the Pretenders, Jon Bon Jovi, and Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam.
In 1989, Ruffhouse Records was launched out of Studio 4 operations, and over the next ten years it moved more than 100 million units through Sony distribution. Responsible for the careers of Lauryn Hill, the Fugees, Cypress Hill, Kriss Kross and Wyclef Jean, Ruffhouse alone accounted for 12 of Columbia Records 39 Grammy nominations in 1997. In 1993 , Mr. Nicolo founded Master Voice, a mastering lab based in Conshohocken, PA. In 1994 He joined producer Rick Chertoff and Polygram Records. Rick's label Blue Gorilla had great success with Joan Osborne.
While maintaining a busy stable of multi-platinum artists, Mr. Nicolo has continued to work with cutting edge talent. He produced the critically acclaimed Train EP for Aware/Columbia. Phil has produced the Mighty, Mighty Bosstones, Dishwalla, Fig Dish and Cibo Matto, a veritable who's who of cutting edge rock. His hard rock credits include Life of Agony, Dog Eat Dog, Urge Overkill and Anthrax. He mixed the Butthole Surfers Pepper, the Cults Gone/Coming Down and produced the Fugees Live Bootleg EP. Projects include mixes for John Lennon & Yoko Ono, remixes and live recordings with Depeche Mode, mixes for the band New Order, an EP for Columbia artist Pete Yorn, and a live recording of The Moby Area One tour featuring: Moby, Incubis, Nelly Furtado, Outkast and The Roots. A recient thrill was working with Bob Dylan on a track for the "North Country" film soundtrack, produced at his Studio 4 facility in Conshohocken.
Phil is the chair of the P&E wing of the Philadelphia chapter of NARAS (the Grammy people) and is active in the community with various NARAS events. He has been nominated for 4 Grammy awards, and won last Feb for mixing and mastering The Spanish Harlem Orchestra. He is the proud recipient of the 2003 Lew Klein Alumni in the Media Award, placing him in the Temple University Communication Hall of Fame.
Brian Bricklin
Brian Bricklin is one of Philadelphia's most highly accomplished recording artists and record producers. Brian has been the director of Music Training Center's Rock 101, Rock Band Camp, and Recording Studio programs since 2002.
Brian is a native of the Main Line. In the 1980's he co-founded the band Bricklin along with his brother Scott. In 1986, Brian and Scott were signed to A&M records, and more recently to Hybrid/Sire Records with their group, Martin's Dam. Their song "Fear of Flying" from the Hybrid/Sire debut "Sky Above", received airplay on radio stations across the country, and is featured in the motion picture, "The Shrink is In," featuring Courtney Cox and David Arquette. Another song from that album, “Only God Knows” is featured in the Alexander Payne/MTV/Paramount movie, "Election" starring Reese Witherspoon and Mathew Broderick.
Brian has performed in venues including New York's Madison Square Garden, Philadelphia's Spectrum and Tower Theatre as well as the 4th of July Celebration on JFK Parkway. He has songs featured in many popular, feature films, featuring "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" (Keanu Reeves), and "Coming Soon" (Mia Farrow and Ryan O'Neal).
His production and engineering credits include major label releases on A&M, Columbia, RCA, PolyGram, Hybrid/Sire, Bingo Records, and Ruffhouse. You may also have heard Brian's music on the tube, as his many television credits include: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, ESPN, and others. Brian has worked side by side with two-time Grammy winner Neil Dorfsman (Sting, Paul McCartney, Dire Straits), Phil Nicolo (Moby, Sean Lennon, Urge Overkill), and Kevin Killen (U2, Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel).
Since 2002, Brian has recorded, mixed and mastered songs and albums for over 150 high school and college rock bands, children's music albums and label recording artists including the Bingo Hits for Kids series, Ben Arnold, Jim Boggia, Easter, Scott Bricklin, Modern Bliss, Hymns of the Wicked, 4-Sided Circle, Phyllis Heitjan, Dumbstruck, The Trumans, Original Sinz, Crux, Firetruck, and others.
He has served as the director of the Philadelphia Music Conference as well as been elected to the Board of Governors in 2004-2005 for the Philadelphia Chapter of The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, a Grammy organization.
EastCoast Productions: Eddie Davis & Rick Prince
For more than twenty years, Eddie and Rick have worked together in the studio producing great music for top artists and bands, as well as performing live in musically acclaimed bands playing concerts, clubs and special events.
Eddie Davis is a recording artist, published songwriter, record producer and vocalist known for his soulful, dynamic style. Eddie has been playing the most upscale events & private parties with his band, Eddie Davis Orchestra, for over 25 years. He is also the lead singer of Blues Anatomy, a classic blues and R&B band performing and recording music at the highest caliber. He is founder and President of EastCoast Entertainment since 1986, one of the premier booking agencies in the Delaware Valley, booking national and local music acts, as well as other unique acts and talented artists.
Rick Prince is one of Philadelphia’s most in-demand Blues and R&B bass players who has been recording and performing music for more than 20 years. He studied with Chuck Andersen and has worked in a number of recording studios as a producer, session player, songwriter and engineer. Rick is musical director for EastCoast Entertainment, as well as bassist for Blues Anatomy, Eddie Davis Orchestra and other top musical ensembles. Rick’s musical background and experience is extensive and most impressive.
Eddie and Rick have now joined forces with Range Recording Studios, a state of the art Pro Tools HD and analog studio and have formed EastCoast Productions; a full service recording/production company, offering both Eddie & Rick’s knowledge, experience and resources in helping artists with talent, desire and potential produce a great CD/DVD. EastCoast Productions can also assist and coordinate the graphic design, packaging, marketing, record label shopping (or independent distribution) and booking services, upon completion of the project. As members of ASCAP, The Harry Fox Agency and NARAS, as well as having the best connections to top studio musicians, performance venues and record labels, EastCoast Productions offers the ultimate recording experience, plus the resources to fast track music careers.
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