David Kahne is an American record producer, musician, composer, and former record company executive. Kahne started his musical career as a working musician and soon became Director of A&R for America's first punk & new wave record label, San Francisco's 415 Records; a position he operated out of a closet-sized office upstairs at The Automatt recording studio.[1] He did artist development and in-house production and engineering there for 415 and continued to produce records for artists on the 415 label when he left Automatt in 1982 to accept a position in Los Angeles as Vice President of A&R for Columbia Records. He later held the same position at Warner Bros. Records.[2]
He produced MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett, the 1995 Grammy Award winner for Album of the Year.[3] Other artists Kahne has produced records for include Paul McCartney, Lana Del Rey, Fishbone, Sublime, The Strokes, Sugar Ray, The Bangles, Romeo Void, Stevie Nicks, Teddy Thompson, The Outfield, Renee Fleming and Regina Spektor.[4] He also worked with Linkin Park on some of their earlier studio work after signing with Warner.
Kahne wrote and produced the soundtrack to Bloom, a 2003 film written and directed by Sean Walsh based on James Joyce's Ulysses.[5] and he composed and performed the score for the 2011 film Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place, about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters.[6] He has also scored an Alex Gibney film that is currently in post-production, The Road Back, about Lance Armstrong and the 2009 Tour de France.[7]
Kahne also designed Fishbone's widely-recognized logo, which he created with MacPaint on an early model Apple Macintosh 128K.[8] He currently works in music supervision at Noble Records with an A&R team that also includes Matt Pinfield, Rich Russo, and Tony Shimkin.[7]
Works
External links
- vincristin.com official site
- aaminc.com management
References
- ^ Selvin, Joel (September 4, 2009). "S.F. concert in honor of 415 Records". San Francisco Chronicle. p. 2. Retrieved 2012-03-04.
- ^ Levitin, Daniel. "A Brief History of 415 Records". Retrieved 2011-06-25.[dead link]
- ^ "MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett > Credits". Retrieved 2008-03-13.
- ^ "Credits page at allmusic.com". Retrieved 2007-10-03.
- ^ "Bloom on IMDB". Retrieved 2011-03-01.
- ^ "Omnivore Recordings - Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place - Original Film Score".
{{cite web}}: Text "accessdate 2012-03-04" ignored (help) - ^ a b "Noble Music - About Tony Shimkin".
- ^ "Band Logos - Band Upon The Brain: Logo #35: Fishbone". Retrieved 2011-03-01.