For a complete discography, press links, and video production reel, visit Info.MasonJarMusic.com
News & Ongoing Projects:
The Storm is Passing Over - A Hurricane Sandy Benefit Album by Mason Jar Music & Friends
- Featuring: Abigail Washburn & Béla Fleck, Rosanne Cash, Aoife O'Donovan (w. Noam Pikelny & Paul Kowert), Lucius, Tift Merritt, Michael Daves, and more
- Donate & Download at TheStormisPassingOver.com
- Music documentary with Josh Garrels filmed on location in Mayne Island, BC.
- Visit TheSeaInBetween.com for limited-edition DVD orders and digital downloads.
Radio City Music Hall - May 5th, 2012
- Photos and Videos on the MJM Blog
Crypt Concert for "Metals" Release - October 3rd, 2011
- Footage premiered on CNN
- Photos and Reviews at: Brooklyn Vegan, Pitchfork, Billboard, Billboard.biz, and Spin
Press for MJM:
NPR All Songs Considered Blog: First Watch - Abigail Washburn - "Nobody's Fault But Mine"
Fast Company: MJM Named 6th Most Innovative Music Company of 2012
NPR Weekend Edition: Turning Abandoned Buildings Into Recording Studios (Radio & Web)
TIME.com: Can Music Collectives Fill the Gap Between Labels and DIY?
NBC New York: Mason Jar Music - Bootstrapped Together
Fast Company/Co.Create: A Creative Movement Grows In Brooklyn: Mason Jar Brings the Art Back to Music
The Huffington Post: Brooklyn's Scrappiest Music Producers Leave The City: From Brooklyn Warehouses To The Great Outdoors
The Village Voice: Q&A with MJM Co-Founders Dan Knobler & Jon Seale
Sonic Scoop: Mason Jar Music, The Brooklyn Creative Collective & Residential Studio
The Washington Post: For These Music Video Sites, All the World’s a Concert Stage
Mason Jar Music is an audio/visual production company and creative collective based in Brooklyn, NY. We aim to combine the 21st century's affordable digital tools with tried-and-true analog philosophies and skilled craftsmanship to create high-quality audio and video products for a wide range of clients.
At MJM, we work hard to create organic productions through collaboration. Each of the members of the our team - many of whom live and work together in our Brooklyn-based home, studio, and headquarters - are multi-talented creative professionals skilled in a diversity of crafts and styles. We can take on almost any type of audio & video project: record production, engineering & mixing, film scoring, original music for picture, music videos, and live concert recording/filming. We believe foremost in assembling a roomful of talented individuals and working together to create and capture a singular musical moment.
Though sales of recorded music are down, people are consuming more content than ever before. Large commercial studios are a dying breed, and a new paradigm must replace them. Technology has made it easier and more affordable for the average consumer to produce and distribute his or her own music, and to some that means the death of the producer, the engineer, and the art of recording. We disagree. To us it means that the power structure has changed; the control is in the hands of the content creators. Now, more than ever people need trained professionals, with distinct style and a passion for creating all types of music in any format, to bring their projects to fruition.
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Ben Sollee
A Few Honest Words -
Abigail Washburn
Nobody's Fault But Mine -
Alicia Keys
Speechless -
Laura Gibson
Milk-Heavy, Pollen-Eyed -
John Medeski
Luz Marina -
Town Hall
Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby -
Josh Garrels
Slip Away -
Flearoy
Say My Name -
Relatives
New Orleans -
Wood Brothers
Luckiest Man -
Flearoy
You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch -
Relatives
Widower -
Char Prescott
Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata, 3rd movement
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More Perfect Union
Score -
Cook Like An Iron Chef
Original Music -
New York Is For Lovers
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Taste
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Animal Drill
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Sunday
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Aarti Party
Original Music
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John Medeski
A Different Time EPK -
Town Hall
Good Boy -
Flearoy
Wake The Town EPK -
Lucius
Wayfaring Stranger -
Rachel Ann Weiss
Dear Love EPK
Mason Jar Music Presents is a video concert series inspired by the peacefulness and tranquility of the old buildings that continue to dot New York City's 21st-century landscape. These productions put performances in unique settings & spaces with original arrangements that inspire great performances and breathe new life into each song.
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| Record production | Engineering / Mixing | ARRANGING / MUSICIAN CONTRACTING |
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| Production, arranging, recording, and mixing for LP's, EP's or singles of virtually any genre including rock, pop, classical, jazz, folk, soul, hip hop, and electronica. | Tracking, overdubbing, mixing, and mastering at MJM Studios or on site at any remote location in the New York City area or beyond. View Gear List. | Original orchestrations for strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, and voices. Includes recording at MJM studios or a remote location and access to our database of session musicians. |
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| MUSIC For Picture | MUSIC Videos | Live event Recording / Filming |
| Composition and recording of original music for film and television including orchestral scores, theme songs, and background music spanning a wide range of genres. | Full production of conceptual narrative-based music videos and staged performances. | Audio and video recordings of concerts and other live performances, interviews and B-roll for EPKs and promotional documentaries. |
| MIXING/PROCESSING
Neve 8816 1176 LA-2A (2) Vintage DBX 160VU (2) Summit Audio TLA-50 (2) FMR RNC1773 Behringer Composer SPX 90 Akai 4000DB 2-Track Tape Machine PREAMPS Manley Vox Box Hamptone HJFP2 Joe Meek VC1 TrueSystems Precision 8 Apogee Ensemble Focusrite 428 MONITORING Mackie HR 824 Polk Audio 3-Way Hi-Fi KRK V6 HearBack 8-channel headphone system Mackie BigKnob Bang & Olufsen Turntable Yamaha & Mackie PA Systems Assorted AKG & Sony headphones PRO TOOLS HD 10 Digidesign 192 (2) Digidesign 96 Digidesign Sync I/O Apogee Ensemble Apple MacPro MOBILE RIG BLA-Modded Digi 003 PreSonus DigiMax LT Roland Edirol R-44 FILM EDITING Custom-Built Mac Pro (2) Apple Cinema Display |
MICROPHONES (2) Vintage Gefell MV692 (w. UM70, M93, & M94 capsules) Peluso P-12 Peluso 22-47 Peluso P-28 (2) Peluso CEMC-6 Coles 4038 Neumann TLM 103 Neumann KMR81 Shotgun Mic (2) AKG 414 (4) AKG 451 (3) Shure SM57 (4) Sennheiser 421 (3) Sennheiser e604 (3) Sennheiser EW122 Wireless Systems Vintage Akai M8 Rode NT-1000 (3) Rode NT-5 Electro-Voice RE-20 AudioTechnica AE 2500 Blue Baby Bottle (3) Audix f10 AMPLIFIERS 1967 Blackface Fender Pro Reverb 1960s Marshall JTM 45 Head Late 1940s Tweed Fender Champion Mesa Boogie Lone Star Mesa Boogie Trem-o-Verb Head Fender Blues Jr. Leslie 147 Aguilar AG500sc Roland KC-350 Vintage RCA Classroom Speaker Danelectro Honeytone DRUMS / PERCUSSION Yamaha Stage Custom Adv. Drum Set Assorted Cymbals, Snare Drums, Hand Drums, Shakers, Tambourines, and Auxiliary Percussion |
GUITARS/BASSES 1964 Gretch Country Gentleman Fender American Telecaster & Stratocaster Gibson Les Paul & SG Vintage Ibanez AS-200 National Delphi Resonator Vintage 1960s Harmony Archtop Vintage 1970s Guild Acoustic Martin 00-15 Bart Reiter 5-String Banjo Fender Jazz Bass & Fender P-Bass Upright Bass Godin Electric Fretless Bass KEYBOARDS 1948 Hammond Model M Wurlitzer 200a Upright Piano Deagan Vibraharp 512 Hammond XK3c Casiotone 401 Nord Electro 2 Nord Modular G2 Yamaha DX-7 Harmonium, Accordion, and Glockenspiel PEDALS AnalogMan King of Tone Vintage 1980s Tube Screamer ZVex Box of Rock JHS Superbolt & Prestige Strymon Mobius & BlueSky Reverberator Keeley Compressor RC Booster Vox Wah & CryBaby Wah Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man, Mini Q, Micro Synth, POG, HOG Pigronix EP-1 Line 6 Echo Park Visual Sound H20 Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere Korg Kaoss Pad |
We are available for collaboration. Please get in touch with us for any project consultations, general inquiries, or just to say hello. We look forward to working with you.
Dan Knobler
Co-Founder, Producer, Engineer / Mixer, Guitarist, Multi-Instrumentalist
Jon Seale
Co-Founder, Producer, Engineer / Mixer, Vocalist, Multi-Instrumentalist
Andrew Ellis
Director, Cinematographer, Director of Photography
Matt Porter
Director, Editor, Pianist / Organist
Sasha Arutyunova
Photographer and Camera Operator
Jason Burger
Producer, Drummer, Percussionist
Gabriel Gall
Arranger, Composer, Multi-Instrumentalist
Russell Durham
Violinist, Mandolinist, Arranger, Composer
Jacob Blumberg
Producer, Engineer, Live Sound, Multi-Instrumentalist
Ian Davis
Arranger, Composer, Multi-Instrumenalist
Kris Nolte
Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Pianist
Zack Rosen
Acoustic and Electric Bassist
Zubin Hensler
Electronic Music Producer, Trumpeter
Alan Gordon
Post-Production Supervisor, Colorist, Engineer
Joe Greco
Director, Editor
Phoebe Ryan
Singer, Songwriter, Engineer
Stefan Weiner
Singer, Songwriter, Arranger, Multi-Instrumentalist
Char Prescott
Cellist, Vocalist
Caley Goins
Administrative Assistant
