Production & Creative Collaborations
The examples below include professional and creative work recorded at various studios in New York. Most of these projects allowed me to wear many hats: recording engineer, composer/arranger, instrumentalist, producer, and mixing engineer. Click the icon to expand each example for more info and audio or scroll down to the embedded media below.
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Dead Letters EP by Marisa Brown. Featuring Greg L. Millar:
Lead guitar (Pedestal, Flicker), Organ (Pedestal), Producer, Mixing engineer (Pedestal, Puzzle, Starry Eyed)
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Newly-released alternate mixes of “Puzzle” by Marisa Brown, which I created as demos while we worked on her debut EP to help find the right instrumentation and tone to accompany Marisa’s original piano & vocal recordings.
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Featuring Greg L. Millar: Drums/percussion, Synths, Bass, Guitars, Arranger, Mixing engineer, Vocal production & mix
Vocals by Stephen Smith.
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Produced, co-arranged, mixed, and mastered by Greg L. Millar. Original composition, lyrics & vocals by Zoe Berg. Recording Engineer: Jesse French.
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I created a “live” mix of Zoe’s track with alternate instrumentation and a new mix using vocal outtakes from our original session. These less-polished vocals were cut from the original mix but evoked images of an emotional, authentic open mic night-style performance, so that is what I sought to represent.
Does it sound live to you?
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This was a remote collaboration during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Greg L. Millar: Music & production (Just Like Alice, Hiding Undercover); Synths, Strings, Percussion, Bass, Guitars, Arrangement (Puzzle - The Details Remix).
Marisa Brown: Lyrics & vocal recordings (Just Like Alice, Hiding Undercover, Puzzle - The Details Remix); Piano, (Puzzle - The Details Remix)
Dead Letters EP
Featuring Greg L. Millar:
Lead Guitar (Pedestal, Flicker), Organ (Pedestal), Acoustic Guitar (Puzzle) Producer, Mixing Engineer (Pedestal, Puzzle, Starry Eyed)
“Puzzle” [Genre Variations]
I created these rough demos to help the artist determine how to fill out the arrangement for this song, which started with whole-note chords on a piano & a few string flourishes. We had higher ambitions for the track but were not sure which direction to pursue so, as a producer on the project, I worked up examples that I believed suited the composition and Marisa’s musical style.
Each piece is built from the same audio recordings and MIDI data but each has a different tone, varied instrumentation, and a distinct aesthetic. We ultimately produced two official versions of Puzzle: Marisa’ Dead Letter EP includes a fully-realized version of the “coffeehouse demo” (without the percussion) and our 2020 release (Hiding Undercover) includes a remix based on the “ambient demo.”