DENIS BLACKHAM
Denis Blackham (born 1952, Walthamstow, Essex, England) is an English music mastering engineer. He began his audio mastering work in 1969 at IBC Studios in London, and later worked for Polygram, RCA, The Master Room, Nimbus Records, Tape One, and Porky’s. In 1996 he set up his own studio at his home in Surrey England; and when he moved to the Isle of Skye in 2002, he changed the name of his studio to Skye Mastering. (More from Wikipedia)
Chimera recorded something like 20 songs (variously reported as being in 1968, 1969 and/or 1970) in a acid-folk style for a planned album that remained unreleased for decades, while picking up legendary status among psychedelic record collectors. Amazingly, only cassettes remain from the recording sessions, though the sound quality is not at all impaired; they were remastered beautifully by Denis Blackham, an industry legend who had previously mastered the music for the Evita and Cats musicals and also albums by Led Zeppelin, Madness, Eurythmics, and Brian Eno.
(November 2013)
