The first Greek hire by a historic US music studio

Alexandros Kalteziotis, 25, graduated from the respected Berklee College of Music and has been moving for Henson Recording Studios for astir a year.

Listening to “Every Breath You Take” arsenic a teen successful his country successful the Attica suburb of Pikermi, Alexandros Kalteziotis ne'er imagined that successful conscionable 10 years he’d beryllium successful the aforesaid workplace wherever The Police recorded overmuch of their work.

Yet the 25-year-old postgraduate of the Berklee College of Music has already spent astir a twelvemonth moving successful the hallowed halls of Henson Recording Studios, a large section successful US philharmonic history, stretching backmost to Charlie Chaplin, who built the Hollywood analyzable successful 1917 arsenic a movie studio. Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss took implicit the abstraction successful 1966 and utilized it to location A&M Records, until the full happening was bought by Jim Henson successful 2000, wherever helium carried connected the bequest of the renowned signaling studios. Today, the institution of the creator of “The Muppet Show” is simply a sprawling installation that seldom lets radical who are not related to amusement concern in, immoderate Kermit’s smiling look whitethorn suggest astatine the entrance. The workplace utilized by the likes of John Lennon and Pink Floyd is an unbreachable fortress – each the much breathtaking for the young Greek euphony producer.

‘Every 1 of the 5 signaling studios has a comfy lounge attached, wherever the artists tin instrumentality a break, portion they tin besides locomotion astir outside’

“It’s eden connected Earth for artists,” Kalteziotis tells Kathimerini.

From contiguous stars similar Coldplay, Taylor Swift, Harry Styles and Justin Bieber, to legends similar The Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney, A-list musicians take Henson for its high-precision instrumentality and the privacy.

“The musicians thrust done the gates without being spotted by fans oregon the press,” says Kalteziotis, who, arsenic 1 of the studio’s 15 unit members, has entree to each room, but has besides signed a strict confidentiality agreement.

“Every 1 of the 5 signaling studios has a comfy lounge attached, wherever the artists tin instrumentality a break, portion they tin besides locomotion astir outside,” helium says, adding that the artists tin besides marque the abstraction consciousness much similar home. “They often bring objects similar a tiny portion of furnishings oregon thing other they judge brings them luck.”

Henson is besides wherever “We are the World” was recorded successful 1985, and it besides features successful the Netflix documentary “The Greatest Night successful Pop.” “The spacious workplace and the cardinal determination helped,” says the young producer.

Every workplace has a story. “Back successful the 1980s, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers needed a workplace to hole an medium and the lone 1 that was disposable was Studio B, which was being renovated,” says the young Greek, explaining that the set took it anyhow and was truthful enthused with the dependable produced by having stripped bricks and plaster that they insisted connected moving determination and convinced the proprietor not to implicit the renovation. “It is inactive successful the aforesaid ‘unfinished’ authorities and you can’t ideate however galore young artists privation it based connected the dependable connected that aged album,” Kalteziotis adds, laughing. Kalteziotis is the archetypal Greek hired by Henson, which astir exclusively employs Berklee graduates, shaping them into the dependable engineers and euphony producers who volition spell connected to travel large bands crossed their trajectories and often besides lend to their sound, arsenic the alleged “fifth Beatle,” George Martin, did.

So far, Kalteziotis has discovered an affinity with Norwegian artists; his enactment with Jon Ranes and Ingrid Saga has been a success, propelling the medium “Loverboy” and the azygous “Ιn the Space Between Our Souls” among the apical spots of Norway’s Spotify, with a cardinal streams.