Ben Brodin

Ben Brodin is a musician, engineer and producer from Omaha, Nebraska. He is a member of several bands, including Mal Madrigal, McCarthy Trenching, Our Fox and The Mynabirds, and has performed both live and in the studio with artists such as Conor Oberst and First Aid Kit. Brodin is a multi-instrumentalist. He currently fronts the band Before the Toast and Tea and is a recording engineer at ARC Studios, formerly Presto! Recording Studios. Before the Toast and Tea's debut album, Methods Of The Mad, is carried by Saddle Creek Records webstore.[1][2][3][4][5]

Discography

Jason Mraz - Yes! (2014, Atlantic Records)

assistant engineer, drums, percussion, piano, organ

Orenda Fink - Blue Dream (2014, Saddle Creek)

production, recording and mix engineer, guitars, bass, keyboards

First Aid Kit - Stay Gold (2014, Columbia)

assistant engineer, piano, organ, vibraphone

Conor Oberst - Upside Down Mountain (2014, Nonesuch Records)

vibraphone

•Katie Burns - Throw The Flowers Down (2014, Self)

production, recording and mix engineer, guitar, piano, vibraphone

Seahaven (band) - Reverie Lagoon: Music For Escapism Only (2014, Run For Cover Records)

recording and mix engineer, guitar, trumpet, organ, vibraphone, bells

•Brad Hoshaw - Funeral Guns (2014, Self)

mix engineer

•John Davis - Spare Parts (2013, Shrimper Records/Riot Act)

recording engineer

•PRO-MAGNUM - 7" (2013, TBA)

recording and mix engineer

Savages - TBA (2013, Matador)

recording engineer

•News For Lulu - Circles (2014, Urtovox)

recording and mix engineer, guitars, vibraphone

Jake Bellows - New Ocean (2013, Saddle Creek)

recording and mix engineer, drums, guitars, mellotron, Hammond B-3,

piano, vocals

Jake Bellows - Help [EP] (2013, Majestic Litter)

recording and mix engineer, drums, guitars, keyboards, vocals

•Our Fox - Sea Glass (2013, Majestic Litter)

recording and mix engineer, drums, keyboards, guitar, vibraphone, vocals

•Noah’s Ark Was A Spaceship - You Need You (2013, Self)

recording engineer

•Mal Madrigal - All The Ghosts (2013, TBA)

drums, bass, vibraphone, Hammond B-3, vocals

Ted Stevens Unknown Project - ‘Singles’ (2013, TBA)

mix engineer, guitars, keyboards

•Ladyfinger (ne) - Errant Forms (2013, Saddle Creek)

Hammond B-3, Wurlitzer

•Big Harp - Chain Letters (2013, Saddle Creek)

recording engineer

•UUVVWWZ - The Trusted Language (2013, Saddle Creek)

recording engineer

•Chromafrost - The End of Instinct (2013, Death Ray)

recording and mix engineer

•The Fucking Party - The Fucking Party (2013, Self)

recording and mix engineer

•Elizabeth Davis - Latitudes (2013, Self)

recording and mix engineer, production, drums, bass, guitars, vibraphone, keys

•Maria The Mexican - Moon Colored Jade (2013, Self)

mix engineer

•Katie Burns - You’ll Find Your Way (2013, Self)

recording and mix engineer, production, guitars, vibraphone, piano,

percussion

•CatsMelvin - Houston (2013, Self)

mix engineer

Tilly and the Wall - Heavy Mood (2012, Team Love)

recording engineer

Azure Ray - As Above So Below (2012, Saddle Creek)

guitar samples

Simon Joyner - Ghosts (2012, Sing, Eunuchs!, Ba Da Bing)

mix engineer

McCarthy Trenching - Plays The Piano (2012, Slumber Party)

recording and mix engineer

•Con Dios - There’s a Beat in Your Cold Black Heart (2012, Self)

recording and mix engineer

•The So-So Sailors - Young Hearts (2012, No Dancing)

recording and mix engineer, Hammond B-3

•Conduits - Conduits (2012, Team Love)

recording engineer

First Aid Kit - The Lion’s Roar (2012, Wichita)

piano

•One Eye White - For Better For Worse (2012, Self)

recording and mix engineer

•Dirty Fluorescents - Cut The Line (2012, Self)

recording and mix engineer, mastering

•Custom Catacombs - Self-Titled (2012, TBA)

recording engineer

McCarthy Trenching - Fresh Blood (2011, Slumber Party)

recording and mix engineer

Man Man - Life Fantastic (2011, Anti)

assistant engineer

Orenda Fink - 7” Mighty Mist (2011, Bocca Lupo)

recording and mix engineer, drums, bass, piano, guitars, vibraphone, samples,

vocals, arrangement

The Bruces - (TBA)

marimba

Bright Eyes - The People’s Key (2011, Saddle Creek)

assistant engineer

•Kevin Pike/John Kotchian - Pulse/Flow (2011, Bocca Lupo)

mastering

Film Streams - Silents in Concert Series (various)

composition and arrangement, piano, guitars, tape loops, sound reinforcement

•Before the Toast and Tea - Methods of the Mad (2010, Bocca Lupo)

composition and arrangement, recording/mixing, mastering, drums, guitars,

keyboards, bass, vocals, vibraphone, percussion

Orenda Fink - Ask The Night (2009, Saddle Creek)

upright bass, pump organ

•Mal Madrigal - From The Fingers of Trees (2009, Bocca Lupo)

drums, organ, vibraphone, feedback

Pete Yorn - Back and Forth (2009, Columbia)

organs, piano, vibraphone

Son Ambulance - Someone Else’s Déja Vu (2008, Saddle Creek)

vibraphone

•Mal Madrigal - The Road is Glue (2007, Bocca Lupo)

vibraphone, drums

•Mal Madrigal - Life Among The Animals (2007, Bocca Lupo)

vibraphone, drums, Rhodes

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