Peter Walsh (producer)
Peter Walsh (born 1950) is a British music producer and engineer.
Walsh cut his teeth as an engineer at London's Utopia Studios in the late 1970s, working with Stevie Wonder, The Tubes, Spandau Ballet and The Boomtown Rats amongst others.[1]
His breakthrough was as assistant producer on the 1981 debut album by Heaven 17, Penthouse and Pavement. Following this success he went on to produce several artists among them Peter Gabriel, China Crisis, Rick Springfield and Simple Minds.
In 1984 Walsh produced Scott Walker's album Climate of Hunter, which cemented Walker's status as an avant-garde artist. Walsh has continued to work with Walker, producing and performing on his 1995 album Tilt and the 2006 album The Drift. In addition he has worked with Walker on records by Ute Lemper and Pulp.
Selected discography
- Penthouse and Pavement - Heaven 17 (1981) (Production assistant, Engineer)
- Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms, Some People Think It's Fun to Entertain - China Crisis (1982) (Producer, Engineer)
- New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) - Simple Minds (1982) (Producer, Engineer)
- Plays Live - Peter Gabriel (1983) (Producer, Engineer, Mixing)
- Climate of Hunter - Scott Walker (1984)(Producer, Engineer)
- Afternoons in Utopia - Alphaville (1986) (Producer, Engineer, Mixing)
- Love - Heidi Berry (1991) (Programming, Engineer, Mixing)
- Tilt - Scott Walker (1995) (Producer, Engineer, Mixing)
- I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One - Yo La Tengo (1997) (Engineer, Mixing)
- Punishing Kiss - Ute Lemper (2000) (Producer, Mixing)
- We Love Life - Pulp (2001) (Producer, Engineer, Mixing)
- The Drift - Scott Walker (2006) (Producer, Engineer, Mixing)
External links
References
- ^ "Peter Walsh Biography". peterwalsh.de. http://www.peterwalsh.de/. Retrieved 13 Oct 2011.
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Music producer |
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