Gestalt Sound Production

07/09/2014

SMURF RIOT LIVE ALBUM RELEASE!!!
Finally, after nearly 15 years, the final show by Elgin, Texas punk band Smurf Riot has been digitally remastered and released for FREE DOWNLOAD!!!
Go to the official bandcamp site (linked below) to get your own mp3 copy of this rare chunk of Texas Punk Rock history!
And for those who don't, GO SMURF YOURSELF!
http://smurfriot.bandcamp.com/releases

9 track album

07/04/2014

New tracks I recorded, mixed, and mastered for Southernman, a new, unsigned band from Killeen, Texas. CHECK THIS S**T OUT!!! THEY ARE AWESOME!!!
https://soundcloud.com/george-boswell/sets/southernman

Listen to Southernman by Gestalt Sound Production

10/04/2013

Hey you guys check out the new Wyrmwud Bandcamp site! You can listen to and purchase the new album and tracks form it here!!
Support independent, Texas music!!

https://wyrmwud.bandcamp.com/

9 track album

10/03/2013

ANNOUNCING: Wyrmwud debut album is now available for digital download!!! You can purchase the full album and/or individual tracks. Follow the link to the preferred point-of-sale, or search for it on iTunes or Rhapsody, though the artist gets more royalty from the cdBaby site.
Thanks to all of Wyrmwud's fans for their amazing patience and support over the summer!!
Check it out people, and support Texas music!!!

http://gestaltsoundproducti.wix.com/gestaltsound

Official Business Website for Gestalt Sound Production, providing Audio Production, recording, editing, mixing, mastering in Austin and Central Texas.

09/12/2013

COMING SOON! NEW WEBSITE!
Very soon Gestalt Sound Production will be launching its new official website! It will be more streamlined and customized than I could ever achieve via this fb page. I will, of course, still repost everything from the New site here on fb (and on or twitter as well), but all business will be taking place through the new site, as soon as it launches. Stay tuned for more!
-George

09/11/2013

Currently seeking Punk Rock musicians to jam and brainstorm with. Although my own musical tastes are rather broad, I would like to find a handful of people who are interested in crafting a new, fresh reinvention of classic punk that incorporates most of the "subgenres" of the style.

Specifically, working on a sound and image derived from the early chaos punk, street/oi, and apocalypse rock, but with nods to pogo and (brit style) hardcore.

Bands of influence for interested musicians should include:

The S*x Pistols, The Plasmatics, The Adicts, The BIG BOYS, The Misfits (early Danzig era mostly), The Exploited, GBH, The Skeptix, The Bristles (both the 80's Swedish band AND the 90's pogo band from Jersey), Lower Class Brats, Richard Hell, (early) Buzzcocks, the Oisters, Youth Brigade, Brother Inferior, Blanks 77, Quincy Punx, Fifteen, and a touch of GWAR.

Drop me a line here on fb, or at [email protected], or at (512) 466-6185 to talk about this project. People in the Austin, Tx area are preferred.

-George
Gestalt Sound Production

09/10/2013

WYRMWUD's newest project brings Custom Beats to the artists who need them!!!

09/06/2013

ANNOUNCING! AUSTIN MUSIC PODCAST SERIES COMING SOON!

I will soon be starting to record and publish a series of podcasts on the topic of the music scene in Austin, Texas, specifically focusing on independent, and otherwise "Underground" music scenes and artists.
It will be, if all goes according to plan, released in weekly, or possibly bi-weekly episodes, and will include editorial segments, historical and educational segments, interviews with local musicians and music industry professionals, as well as a regular "Spotlight" segment, which will feature the music and biographies of specific local artists who have been strongly influential in Austin, and/or are currently performing and/or recording in the Austin area.

Anyone who is willing to contribute to this ongoing effort to chronicle and memorialize the our beloved Live Music Capital please contact me here on FB, or at [email protected]. I am looking, at this point, to connect with musicians, engineers, producers, label executives, club owners/booking managers, promoters, and just about anyone else who has a hand in the scene.

I am still in the stage of brainstorming possible episode topics/features, and welcome any helpful ideas related to this. Also, anyone who knows a reasonable amount about the legal side of publishing such a "show" could be Very helpful to me.

Thanks for listening, and stay tuned for more!!!

-George

09/05/2013

MUSICIANS!! Are you trying and trying to get that record made, but being defeated by the high cost of professional recording and mixing services? Don't fret! Don't smash that amp just yet!

At Gestalt Sound Production, we specialize in unsigned and new artists. We concentrate on getting to Know you and your music, on becoming an organic contribution to it, and providing clean, cutting edge, professional quality at an affordable price.

We don't set our rates by some arbitrary and obsolete "industry standard", but, instead work with our clients to achieve the best results possible within your budget, whatever that may be. Got a few thousand bucks to produce your record? Great! We have access to full scale, major-label quality facilities, where the sky is the limit! Only have a wage-labor worker's budget? No problem! We have Many variations of setup that can be scaled to exactly what you can afford.

Struggling and starving artists don't want, or need to hear that they will never make it unless they can shell out the big bucks to record their music. We live in an age of rapidly advancing technologies and mass dissemination of knowledge and education. Today's artists want and need an engineer and producer that will take the time to work With them, without watching a pay-clock.

We are here to help you make it in the evolving music industry. We understand, being musicians ourselves, that the old models of label distribution are quickly going by the wayside, as are the days of A&R agents working for the labels.

Our chief Engineer and Producer, George Boswell, is a lifelong musician and songwriter, having been in several independent acts over the last 20 years. He trained, via apprenticeship, in the trade of Audio Engineering, under Andy Sharp, at Austin's Music Lane Studio. He is also now expanding our services into Music Publishing, Artist Management, and A&R services (to Artists, not Record Labels).

So, if you are up against a financial brickwall in the process of recording your music, or have just had bad experiences with engineers in the past, drop us a line here at Gestalt Sound Production. We work for the ART.

--George

09/02/2013

SEEKING MUSICIANS AND SONGWRITERS!

I am currently writing music for an upcoming band project, and am looking for musicians, preferably with some songwriting ability as well, to form this group.
The general "genre" of the music is Psychedelic Southern Rock/Punkabilly, with heavy Noir Jazz and Texas Swing influence.

Major Influences to the sound of this band/genre include (but are not limited to):
The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis,
Demented Are Go, Flametrick Subs, Johnny Cash, Little Richard, Jimi Hendrix, The Byrds, The Allman Bros. Band, C,S&N, Wanda Jackson, Billy Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Al Hirt, Ray Charles, Wilson Picket, Stevie Wonder (mostly the early stuff), Janis Joplin, Aerosmith, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, Buck Owens, Pink Floyd, CREAM, Steve Miller, Bob Seger, The Ramones, The Grateful Dead, The Moody Blues, Lassie On Acid, The BIG BOYS, Poison 13, MISFITS, Danzig, Samhain, Roy Orbison, Marty Robbins, Mance Lipscomb, Jim Croce, CCR, George Straight, Dwight Yoakum, Bill Monroe, Jim and Jesse, Scruggs & Flatt, Old and in the Way, PRIMUS, The Old 97's, Lo**ta # 18, etc etc etc.....
--This is a broad-based, Americana-type sound that incorporates many very different styles and attempts to produce something crisply unique, but nostalgically familiar to all who love Rock&Roll and authentic "music of the soul".

I am planning on providing lead vocals and other instrumentation where needed, but would strongly prefer Not to have to play an instrument on every song. Thus, I am looking for GUITARISTS, BASS GUITARISTS, DRUMMERS, PIANISTS/ORGAN/SYNTH KEYS, VARIOUS HORNS (i play trumpet and some trombone, as well as a bit of reed flute), AND FOLK STRINGS (BANJO, MANDOLIN, STEEL GUITAR, DOUBLE BASS, ACCORDION, etc).

Please send a message on fb, or email to

[email protected]

to contact me about meeting and jamming. I am currently constructing some basic "scratch tracks" of some of the songs I have written. Though I am writing a good bit of the music, I MUCH PREFER if the long-term songwriting be a collaborative effort, as this tends to create a more cohesive sound and internal love for the music as a collective effort.

thanks for listening and stay tuned!

--George Boswell--
Engineer/Producer
Gestalt Sound Production

08/17/2013

Part of a recent interview with Wyrmwud.