

The bands that recorded there include Sonic Youth, Swans, Dresden Dolls, Afrika Bambaata, and Fab Five Freddy. Mixed At BC Studio Mastered At Griffin Mastering Credits Bass Joe Goldring Design Gira Double Bass Larry Seven Drums, Vibraphone, Percussion Larry Mullins Engineer Berry Kamer (tracks: 6), Billy Anderson, Larry Seven, Martin Bisi Engineer Live-engineer Andy Ray (tracks: 4, 7) Guitar Joe Goldring, M. Martin Bisi, a New York indie rock performer and record producer has been at a crossroads of indie/punk, avant garde, noire/cabaret rock, and electronic music since the early 80s in New York City At a studio he started with the help of Brian Eno in Brooklyn 1981, and initially partnering with Bill Laswell, Martin Bisi has realized albums by Son. It can't be followed to the Canal." But on to the music.īC Studios-which is still up and running today-is like the Sound City of the East Coast, established in 1979 by Bisi with Bill Laswell and Brian Eno. Did you know that situated above the contaminated Gowanus Canal is a legendary recording studio, complete with a staircase that leads down to "the pond," some murky waters detached from the Superfund site? Owner and producer Martin Bisi told us this afternoon, "'the Pond', which is at the bottom of the stairwell of the building, is a portion of an actual original pond, and runs under the entire area, including under the landmark building which is adjacent to Whole Foods across the street. Having founded his legendary BC Studio with friends Brian Eno and Bill Laswell in Brooklyn in the early 80s, Bisi went on to record landmark albums by a number of household names Sonic Youth, Swans, Unsane, Cop Shoot Cop, The Dresden Dolls and Brian Eno among them.
