Daniel Abraham

Role:

Mix (4 tracks)

Format:

LP and Single

1985

Label:

Big Beat/Virgin

Role:

Rec

Format:

LP

1984

Label:

Memories

Role:

Mix

Format:

45

1984

Label:

Marlowe/Madrigal

Role:

Rec

Format:

LP

1982

Label:

Isabel/WEA (France)

Chicago Blues album, recorded live to 2 tracks during the same six-hour session as the Little Milton LP.
Grand Prix Du Jazz Award, Paris, 1982.

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

LP

1985

Label:

Celluloid

French Metal band, with an opera-trained lead singer

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

Single

1983

Label:

Warner/Sire US

Role:

Mix

Format:

LP

1982

Label:

Blue Silver/Melodie

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

Single

1983

Label:

Mankin/Virgin

Produced by Mirways (Taxi Girl). A true original. R.I.P.

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

Single

1985

Label:

Madrigal

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

LP

1986

Label:

Melodie

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

LP

1984

Label:

Barclay

Rock/Funk Band

Role:

Mix (b-side only)

Format:

Single

1985

Label:

A&M

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

LP

1986

Label:

Melodie

Role:

Rec

Format:

LP

1985

Label:

CY/Musidisc

Role:

Rec, mix

Format:

Single

1986

Label:

Phonogram

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

5 song EP/Mini Lp

1985

Label:

Power Records/Melodie

French Metal

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

Single

1986

Label:

Off The Tracks

Role:

Mix

Format:

LP

1984/1985?

Label:

Celluloid

Zouk

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

LP

1982

Label:

Saravah

Hard Rock band from the South of France, notable for having two female lead singers

Role:

Mix

Format:

LP

1982

Label:

RCA

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

LP

1982

Label:

Blue Silver

Piano/drums jazz/blues, straight to stereo lp

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

OST

1986

Label:

EMI

Role:

Rec

Format:

LP

1982

Label:

Isabel/WEA (France)

Chicago Blues album, recorded live to 2 tracks during the same six hour session as the Big Voice Odom LP.
"Grand Prix de l'Academie du Disque Francais" Award, 1982.

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

1 track on the "Les Enfants Du Velvet" LP

1985

Label:

Virgin (France)

With Cathy Claret on bass

Role:

Rec, Mix, Guitar (one track)

Format:

LP

1984

Label:

Non Standard/Teichiku Records (Japan/France)

Mikado were a cool, quirky duo who were big in Japan.

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

Single

1984

Label:

Non Standard/Teichiku Records (Japan/France)

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

Single

1985

Label:

Non Standard/Teichiku Records (Japan/France)

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

Mini LP

1985

Label:

Polygram

Role:

Mix

Format:

Single

1981?1982?1983?

Punk/Pop/Jazz anyone? Produced by jazzman Barney Willen. Now a collector's item, the record comes with a cool 12 page comic insert.

Role:

Mix

Format:

Single

1986

Label:

CBS

Role:

Rec

Format:

LP

1984

Label:

Isabel/Musidisc (France)

Chicago Blues album, recorded live to 2 tracks during a single afternoon session, along with the Melvin Taylor LP

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

LP

1982

Label:

CY - Warner France

Award-Winning Jazz Album. Recipient of the 1982 "Grand Prix de l'Academie Charles Cros" Award

Role:

Rec

Format:

One track on LP

1983

Label:

Carrere

Recorded one song. The session was billed as a demo session, so everything went very fast, just a rhythm session date, then a guide vocal by Sheila. What was supposed to be a demo apparently turned into an actual recording and made it on the album.

Role:

Rec

Format:

LP

1982

Label:

Carrere (France)

Possibly the most intense experience I ever had in a studio. An atmosphere of madness surrounded the sessions. One day, she threw a vintage Neuman 47 flying into the control room window because I was smoking a cigarette ("I don't like my engineers to smoke" she explained, lighting a marlboro). Another day she fired her gun at someone that annoyed her - turned out to be blanks, thankfully. A very talented but unfortunately torn artist. R.I.P. This album was recently released in the US.

Role:

Mix

Format:

Single

1986

Label:

CBS

Produced by Nono (Trust)

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

LP

1982

Label:

Blue Silver (France)

Sugar Blue was known for having been discovered in Paris' subway, playing blues harp, and went on to play on the Stones' Miss You. My very first album, I had no idea what I was doing.

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

Single

1984

Label:

Virgin (France)

I'd worked as an assistant on their first single a few years before, when there were a quintet. I was a huge fan of theirs and thought they were the best band in France at the time. Then they became a quartet, then a trio, and by the time I worked with them on this record, they'd become a duo. Years later Mirways resurfaced to produce the album "Music" for Madonna.

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

Single, 12"

1984

Label:

Virgin (France)

Another collaboration with Taxi Girl, who were then reduced to Mirways and Daniel Darc. Originally influenced by The Doors, Kraftwerk and the Velvets, they were by then listening to the urban sounds coming from New York.

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

1 track on the "Les Enfants Du Velvet" LP

1985

Label:

Virgin (France)

This song had always been a favourite of mine - back when it was on a cassette-only bootleg compilation of 22 unreleased Velvet songs. Taxi Girl were a band I'd always loved and we had a great time doing the sessions.

Role:

Rec

Format:

LP

1984

Label:

Isabel/Musidisc (France)

Chicago Blues album, recorded live to 2 tracks during a single afternoon session along with the Lucky Peterson LP

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

1 track on the "Les Enfants Du Velvet" LP

1985

Label:

Virgin (France)

Role:

Add Rec, Mix (2 songs: Varsovie, Armes Aux Yeux)

Format:

LP

1982

Label:

CBS (France)

Album produced by Andy Johns - of Led Zeppelin and Stones fame. I started the project as the assistant's assistant, and ended up recording most of the guitar and vocal overdubs. I also mixed two songs, including "Varsovie" which was one of my favorite tracks on the album. The project took an unheard-of (for a French act) six months to complete, 7 days a week, during which time many (including me) went slightly over the edge.

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

LP

1984

Label:

CBS (France)

English lyrics version of the Trust album originally produced by Andy Johns, new vocals and mixes.

Role:

Co-Prod, Rec, Mix

Format:

LP

1984

Label:

CBS (France)

The A&R guy at CBS had instructed me to "get as much as you can on tape, as fast as you can", so convinced was the label that the band wouldn't stay together long enough to complete the album. I did manage to get enough on tape to make an lp, but the strains were much too real, and this wasn't much of a fun project. It also didn't help that the gear in the studio kept breaking down and the room sounded as dry as a cardboard box. Not and ideal situation overall. Not hearing a single, the label asked the band to record one more track, so we went to Miraval in the South of France and cut a song written by pop singer Jean Jacques Goldman, which ultimately didn't help the band retain its fan base.

Role:

Mix

Format:

Single

198?

Role:

Rec, (Mix?)

Format:

LP

1983

Label:

EMI Pathe Marconi

At the end of the project, Henri Salvador thanked me and said: "You know, for a leftwinger, you actually work like a conservative". He meant this as a compliment, that although I looked like a "pinko" (long-haired guy in leather jacket, tattered jeans, converse sneakers and I usually carried the left-wing daily Liberation), I actually worked my ass off.

Role:

Rec, Mix

Format:

45

1984

Label:

Marlowe/Madrigal