Lawson Rollins

LAW S O N ROLLINS

INFINI TA RECORDS 1. Rumba del Sol (4:34) 2. Moonlight Samba (5:40) 3. Havana Heat (4:18) 4. Café La Martinique (6:11) 5. Return to Rio (4:50) 6. Blue Mountain Bolero (4:38) 7. Santa Lucia Waltz (4:32) 8. Espirito (5:47) 9. Cape Town Sky (6:07) 10. Footprints (2:28)

!e Caravan Trilogy:

11. Migration (6:47) 12. Shadowland (6:37) 13. Into the Light (4:18)

Total time: 66:40

On ESPIRITO, guitarist Lawson Rollins reunites with co-producers Shahin Shahida and Dominic Camardella to craft an epic World Music odyssey that reaches across cultures and musical traditions. !e 13 original compositions from Rollins feature performances by the core percussionist Dave Bryant and bassist Randy Tico combined with contributions from a global cast of musical legends. Guest artists include the iconic Brazilian singer Flora Purim, renowned percussionist Airto Moreira, Iranian ‘kamancheh’ master Kayhan Kalhor, and Grammy award winners Charlie Bisharat on violin and Cuban-born drummer Horacio”El Negro” Hernandez.

www.lawsonrollins.com [email protected] All compositions written by Lawson Rollins

Produced by Shahin Shahida, Dominic Camardella and Lawson Rollins

Published by Inﬁnita Songworks [ASCAP]

Recorded, mixed and edited by Dominic Camardella at Santa Barbara Sound Design - www.sound-design.com Additional recording at Skywalker Sound (Marin County, CA), Hyde Street Studios (San Francisco, CA), and S.O.S. Studios (Flint Hill, VA).

Guitars were recorded without compression into ProTools 192-HD at 88.2kHz sample rate / 24 bit resolution by Dominic Camardella using a Klaus Heyne modiﬁed Neumann U87 microphone and an older AKG 414EB run through vintage Neve 1064 preamps. A hybrid digital / analog mixing process was achieved using a Rupert Neve Designs 5088 high resolution analog mixing console. !e output of the Neve console was recorded to a vintage ATR-102 half inch stereo tape machine running at 30ips with Dolby SR Noise Reduction. Michael Spitz’s ATR Master Tape was used for maximum ﬁdelity with minimum noise and distortion. Bernie Grundman personally mastered the album from the analog tape.

Lawson Rollins is endorsed by La Bella Strings and uses custom guitars made by Pedro Maldonado.

Also available from Lawson Rollins - “INFINITA” (catalog: INF-200)

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All music written by Lawson Rollins

Published by Inﬁnita Songworks [ASCAP] Produced by Shahin Shahida, Dominic Camardella and Lawson Rollins

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