Newsletter No.1

New release, recording at Van Gelder Studio

27 September 2025

Welcome to the first of our occasional and (hopefully!) enjoyable updates on this musical journey.

We’ve launched our chrisnemethmusic.com website and created our BandCamp page this month. And yesterday marked the launch of our first single, Nemology, from the album Comity, to streaming services worldwide.

Nemology was actually inspired by Wayne Shorter’s Speak No Evil. I’ve recently expanded the head chart into a big band arrangement.

Recorded at the historic Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Comity was a year in the making from composition to the recording session.

Rudy Van Gelder was unique in his sense of how to record and master live music. He designed and created the studio you can see in my photos on our web site.

The greats recorded there over the decades, with a deep appreciation of the room’s warm and lush acoustics. That studio, along with Maureen Sickler’s brilliant recording engineering and seven first rate musicians created the sound you hear on all of the album’s tracks. As I sat in the control booth, I couldn’t resist taking a photo of Rudy’s portrait hanging on the wall behind me. Thanks to Rudy, the Comity musicians, and to you, for making this possible.

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer and founder of Van Gelder Studio

Chris