Green Hat Music & Sound is a location recording facility. We record all kinds of acoustic music but have expertise in the fields of classical music and jazz.
The company was founded by Olle Grane in 2005 as a sidekick to his work as a woodwind teacher at the local community music school and has since then grown to take on recordings from New York, Paris, Brittany and London, to name a few locations. We are located in the south of Sweden.
Editing, mixing and mastering are done in our inhouse mixroom, where we also can record overdubs.
About Olle Grane
I improvise, compose and perform music, mostly for theatre and film.
I do workshops on group improvisation, specializing in communication, expression and dramatization.
As a sidekick I tune pianos… because I find it relaxing to work with my hands, every now and then. Great to keep the ear chops on the edge!
Teaching
I find that teaching and producing are very much related. You need to know when to give a helping hand and when to let the students / artists try their own ideas. Not getting in the way of creativity but always have an opinion when asked for. To know when to hold on, push forward or let go.
How to communicate and get others to communicate with each other. To be a good listener. And have patience, lot´s of it!
I´ve been teaching and producing since I was fifteen, starting at a friends home studio, programming drums and syntheziser backgrounds for singer / songwriters on a Commodore 64 computer Running Steinberg´s Track 16 (a neat forerunner to Cubase). It was synced to an 8-track tapemachine and a drum machine by MIDI.
Since then I´ve been a part-time teacher professionally at a local community music school, taking care of clarinet, saxophone, electric bass and ensemble.
I teach audio at Fridhems Folkhögskola to the very talented music students. We produce an annual CD.
Short CV:
1993 - 1997 Bachelor of Arts program, Jazz, Teaching at Malmö College of Music
1999 - 2001 Music Producer program at Malmö College of Music
2006 Audio Associate at The Banff Centre of the Arts
Well then, about your next project...
Reading this, I assume you have dreams or plans for a musical project. Why not give me a call or drop by for a chat? All projects, small or big, start with a non-committing talk about what you need and what I can do to help you – recording a concert or performance, producing a CD, composing and arranging music for a play or a jingle or perhaps something else altogether.
So, what do you have in mind?
Contact:
Adress:
Green Hat Music & Sound
Olle Grane
Kvarndammsvägen 17
242 71 LUDVIGSBORG
Företaget har F-skattsedel / The company is registered for F-tax.
VAT / ORG no.: SE7212223999
Olle är något så ovanligt som noggrann, exakt, genommusikalisk, ödmjuk och flexibel samtidigt. Dessutom uppmuntrande och sprider god stämning runt inspelningen. Inte illa!”
Johan Bernander (vocalist, CD: Stegvis)
Jag har spelat in musik större delen av mitt musikerliv, akustisk sådan, gitarr, cello, tvärflöjt, dragspel och piano. Och alltid med extern, professionell tekniker. Gissa om jag är totalt "rudis" när det kommer till rattar, reglage, knappar, filter, eq, ...you name it.
Slutsatsen är given: jag är helt i händerna på en följsam, synpunktsrik och MUSIKALISK tekniker. Därutöver måste hen utöva alla andra konventionella tricks, pitcha, flytta taktstreck, ge volym, m.m.,m.m.
Finns denna tulipanaros, denna bakelse? Nej, inte så ofta. Men jag har mött ett fynd, Olle – Olle Grane. Aktiv musiker och lägg därtill en ådra till musikproducent och bilden av denna hybrid börjar klarna.
För mej har det alltså varit extra värdefullt med dessa kompletterande egenskaper Olle har (eftersom jag både musicerat själv och producerat skivan) :
~ helproffsig inspelnings- & mixningstekniker
~ allmänt musikaliskt omdömesgill = musikproducent
~ professionell musiker på alla träblås och väl bevandrad inom såväl klassisk som jazz-pop-rock genrer
Utöver dessa färdigheter har Olle en personlighet jag uppskattar: ett lugn, lyhördhet, envishet, tjänstvillighet, inget problem är olösligt.
Väl förberedd och med vänlighet får han arbetssituationerna att bli nöjsamma men ändå effektiva.
