St. Augustine looses a great musical friend…

For the past 16 years, Marty Scott, has enriched the airwaves and our lives with his incredible knowledge of the Blues art form. He passed away this past Saturday and will leave a void impossible to fill.

In addition to being a fine player, his support of the local music scene and encouragement of up and coming players was an inspiration.

Marty, Thanks for the music…you are already missed! (pictured below) Marty Scott recording at Eclipse during a Willie Green Session (photo courtesy of Rick Ambrose).

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(below) The St. Johns County Library System honored Jim for contributing his time and expertise over the last ten years in support of their projects. They presented to him a six course fine dining experience for eight people, to be prepared by Chef Karen Ryan of “Capri Personal and Private Chefs of St. Augustine.” Check out their website:

www.privatechefsofstaugustine.com/

Become a friend of the St. Johns County Library on Facebook:

facebook.com/pages/St-Johns-County-Public-Library

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(below) DJ Natural and producer/DJ Hu Ward stopped by the studio today. Check out DJ Natural’s Dubstep Teaser for “Common Enemies” HERE! and view his event page for information on their “Dubstep Turntablism Event & CD Release Party” HERE!

Thursday, February 17 at 10:00pm – February 18 at 4:00am atThe Two Hundred Lounge.

(below) Michael Elias, Joyce Sabato and Chris Kastle are shown here scheming and vocalizing as part of Chris’s current CD projects.

(below) Long-time friends and great talents, Rusty Springfield and Rick Levy

(below) Zan and Trevor Wilson, collaborating on the “Sound Above Ground” website

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(below) Eclipse shot video of the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church at the St. Johns Cathedral in Jacksonville. Check out some photos below.

(below) The Rt. Rev. Samuel Johnson Howard,
VIII Bishop of Florida

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(below) Eclipse Recording Company attended First America Foundation’s press conference on Tuesday, January 26^th at the Llambias House in St. Augustine. The foundation introduced their board of directors, honorary board, and reviewed their strategic framework. The foundation also announced that they have hired Eclipse to develop their website. We are very proud and excited to be working with them.(below) Jamie Alvarez, Executive Director

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(below) Seattle, Inga Erickson, Hugo Mongelo and Jim Stafford ran away to the Circus for a weekend!

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Chris Kastle records three projects at Eclipse.

Prolific Songwriter, Chris Kastle, is making three CD’s simultaneously. They each have a different theme. The first has a “Maritime” theme, the second has a “Singer-Songwriter” flavor and the third is of “Children’s Songs”. She has gathered a remarkable collection of musicians (seen below) to bring these to life.

(above) Chris says, “I can drive too!”

(above) “The St. Petersburg Shanty Singers.” They came to sing on Chris Kastle’s “Sea Shanty” CD.

(above) Chris with “The St. Petersburg Shanty Singers”

(below) Michael Elias

(below) Chris and Michael

(below) Ron Spencer on Bass

(below) Irish Whistler Marty Groody

(below) Marty and Chris

(below) Violinist Extraordinaire, Janine Newfield

(below) Chris and Janine

(below) Joyce Sabato and Chris, Harmonizing

Trevor and Rachel Hirshman (shown below) designing her DVD package. Rachel is an ASL/English Interpreter and did a radio interview on “That Keith Wann Show.” Listen to it HERE (scroll down to the right until you see a player called, “How to Spread ASL.” ) She also has a booth at “Deaf Nation Expo”, promoting the DVD “ASL Aesthetics” (produced by Sign Life) in Miami FL. on Feb. 5th!

(below) Lynnette Wadsworth stopped by this week to work on her dressage musical freestyles. Eclipse is assisting her in designing a website to promote her skillful musical arrangements for performers of this sport. Dressage is an Olympic equestrian event. Lynnette is not only a musical designer but she is a competitor and choreographer as well.

(below) Jim meeting with John Freeman and Dominic Mercurio of the St. Augustine Lions Club, planning “The Seafood Festival.”

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This week at Eclipse Recording Company

Southeast Aero Video Shoot

Southeast Aero is a distributor of the high-performance aerobatic planes, which are manufactured in Germany and shipped to St. Augustine. The local company has assembled about 300 of these planes for pilots all over the country. The Northeast Florida Regional Airport hired the Eclipse video team to make a short film about what they do.

(above) Southeast Aero does a lot of repairs, like this plane which is being fixed.

(above) Jim Stafford, Angela Jones and Dan Bagan getting ready for the video shoot.

(above) Dan Bagan and Angela Jones

(above) Dan with his Jib Crane.

(above) This Waco biplane may look old, but it is brand new, with state-of-the art instrumentation and communication, an interesting blend of new and old technology.

(above) The lovely Angela Jones, getting ready for her close-up by the Cirrus.

(above) Producer Richard Wall and Angela Jones by an “Extra”

(above) Chief Conspirator Jim Stafford with just some of the gear.

(above) Dan filming an “Extra” speeding down the runway.

(above) Angela, Dan and Richard

(above) An “Extra”

(above) Of course, we had to do this on the coldest day of the year. Poor Angela is freezing!

(above) Angela about to climb the ladder to the roof.

(above) Jim Stafford makes sure the Kramer Upchurch, President of Southeast Aero, has his mic on.

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We would like to Congratulate, Eclipse Recording Artist and Friend, Rick Levy. (below with Dan Bagan at Eclipse) ”After 40 years, an amazing live recording of Philadelphia’s hottest band of the late ’60s, WAX was discovered and recently released on CD by Lightyear Entertainment (distributed by EMI) titled “Melted” (says Rockmymonkey.com).

This album “Wax Melted” (below) has made it to David Fricke’s top picks in “Rolling Stone”

David says of the album, “This one is personal. Wax were from my hometown, Philadelphia, and they were everywhere between 1969 and 1971 – in the clubs, opening shows for John Mayall, the Byrds and Chicago – while I was away at college. They never made an album, so I would only know them by reputation and the members’ later success: Singer-keyboardist Rob Hyman co-founded the Hooters; drummer Rick Chertoff produced them; and singer David Kagan was the full bright voice, with Hyman, in the fine Philly group Baby Grand, which I did see. Melted is a set of songs Wax taped live in the studio, near the end of their tether, and it is vintage early Seventies ambition: progressive songwriting with snappy instrumental digressions, just enough pop gloss and that inevitable Philly-R&B tang. Now I know what I missed – and I wish I’d been there.”

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Sessions in the studio…

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(below) Gary Lee Windgard was in recording a 3 song demo CD and video

(below) Cris Kastle working on her exciting 3-CD project

(below) Jim Stafford, Bob Patterson, Kim Yertel, Paul Linser and Chuck Nusbaum met this week about upcoming Gamble Roger Folk Festival events. Don’t miss the Benefit Concert on February 5th at 7 PM at Flagler College Auditorium.

(below) Our friend Stephen Lynch was in town for a quick visit. Pictured here with Inga.

(below) We are proud to be working with the Florida Veterans Programs & Projects, Inc. on a film about fomer Vietnam P.O.W.’s now residing in our state. He’s a picture from our pre-production meeting.

(below) Ron Davidson, Jamie Alvarez, Inga Erickson & Jim Stafford

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