Ken Nelson (British record producer)

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Ken Nelson

Background information
Birth name Ken Nelson
Born February 6, 1959 (1959-02-06) (age 49)
Origin Liverpool, England
Occupation(s) Record producer
This article is about the English record producer. For American record producer, see Ken Nelson (United States record producer).

Ken Nelson (born February 6, 1959 in Liverpool) is an English record producer. After several years working on demos and independent artists such as the Hellfire Sermons and Ruthless Rap Assassins, he achieved success with Gomez, and world-wide success with the first Coldplay recording. He has also worked with Badly Drawn Boy, Howling Bells, The Charlatans, Echo & The Bunnymen, Kings Of Convenience, Orange Lights, Ray LaMontagne, Feeder, Skin, Snow Patrol, Polly Paulusma and Paolo Nutini.

He has won three US Grammy awards, two Mercury Music Prizes, and was "Music Week" magazine's 'Producer Of The Year' in 2003.

Sessions have been completed in Kelwood, Manitoba for Canadian Alana Levandoski's long-awaited second album.

The Canadian singer/songwriter began recording the album with producer Ken Nelson in Kelwood at a local church in Feb. 2008. Final sessions for her album took place at Parr Street Studios in Liverpool, England in April and May 2008.

Leading up to her second album, Alana co-wrote with such leading country and roots-styled American songwriters as Quinn Loggins, Sam Ashworth, James LeBlanc, Rebecca Lynn Howard, Rachel Thibodeau, and Gary Nichols. She also co-wrote with Sylvia Tyson, Colin Cripps, and Simon Wilcox in Canada,

Alana’s reputation as a significant international singer/songwriter was initially bolstered by her debut album "Unsettled Down" released by Rounder Records in Canada in 2005 and in Europe in 2006.

Reviews of "Unsettled Down" were plentiful. Alana was profiled in numerous European publications, including Maverick and in such Canadian magazines Canadian as Maclean's and Penguin Eggs as well as the street papers, the Georgia Strait in Vancouver, and Now magazine in Toronto.

Alana first performed in the UK and Europe in early 2006 with Dar Williams, Lynn Miles and Caroline Herring as well with Jess Klein. She returned to the UK in 2006 opening for the Elana James Trio, and fellow Canadians Blue Rodeo. She did a tour of Ireland and England in 2007 with fellow Canadian Lynn Miles

In Canada, Alana toured nationally with the Corb Lund Band as well as did dates with Stephen Fearing, Randy Bachman, the Arrogant Worms, and Tanya Tucker.

[edit] Selected discography

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