Musical creativity and community thrive at Blue Door Recordings

Yeah, we're going to go again. Eight clicks and then in. The Blue Door sound is, yes, the gear, the room, but also back to the people, too. It's how the artist feels in the space and how they feel they can open up and express. I'm just here to capture. I still remember. It's like the most vivid memory. I was like sitting right here. And I was just like tuning my guitar playing and this was I haven't recorded any guitar at all in years. At that point I had just done the hip-hop stuff and then Walt was like setting up my guitar mics and I just kind of like looked up and I was like Walt I feel like I might be kind of good at music. This was the first professional studio like I recorded in especially like with Samurai Champs like the hip-hop band. For both me and my best friend Savan like the rapper in the band this was our first time. Really recording in a commercial studio, but also it kind of signified something different. It's kind of signified like, oh this is almost like a pivot in faith. This is when we're going to maybe try to start taking it more seriously, that we need people that are experts within their field, especially like engineering-wise, sonic-wise. We have the most accessibility to audio that we've ever had, and the most amount of audio being uploaded to Spotify, for example, 100,000 songs a day. So it's like, okay, there's a lot of noise happening. There's a lot of people trying to break through. Where the studio comes into that, again, is just capturing the essence of what's happening in the best way possible. And it's like having the microphone selection and the ears to know which microphone to place on an artist to capture that. It's very much like a camera. You know, it's like, how are you representing what's happening? How are you capturing that personality and that character of what's coming out of that artist? And then again, Translating it through the speakers, so the studio allows you to capture something. It's very pure. Yeah, I think that's just really important, you know, because like especially as time goes on there's just more and more artists, more and more genres that appear, especially in Saskatchewan and Regina. Everyone knows like as time moves on, just like diversity of ideas, of culture, everything kind of increases. It's really important for a space like Blue Door to exist in Regina, I think. I just look at it as that. I'm just here to capture an essence or a vibe of what's happening, and I try not to get in the way of that. I just recognize it for what it is, and I want to translate it to the rest of the world. Gold, silver, diamonds for sure. Awesome. All right, let's do a take through, Zoj. Okay. What I love about this community is it's you're seeing people from different genres and bands coming together and starting to play together too. I feel like the talent that we have here is so immense and they're starting to really recognize each other and saying hey let's let's do this together let's play together let's maybe even go on tour together whatever it is there's so many little connections happening across all age ranges. This is home studio right here. Like, I have not been to any other studios that just draws me like Blue Door. I think it's also because my friends pretty much work here and they're not just friends anymore. Like, Walter is literally my engineer now. It's convenient. A lot of my songs were We're written with Saskatchewan stories. Every... Life path that I've been on every romantic story with a happy or sad ending is from here. The craft definitely evolves quite a bit. The craft, I feel like, evolves every year. The sound of the culture is constantly changing. So I've had to learn to adapt with the tools and the sound of what's going on and change with it as well. So how I've grown, really, it's like... A big part of how I do this is practice I think is a very important component and I feel it pulled that from my classical background. I do have my own sound. I think I do because I'm very experimental. I think I'm not like a traditional writer and I really don't think about verse one, verse two, verse three when I'm writing music. I think it comes after. I figure okay where is the verse? Okay this sounds like a verse one but yes I do have my own sound. There's no genre bounds, like there's hip-hop, R&B, folk, country, everything and doing that always keeps things very interesting and learning about the different genres and finding ways to take some things from some genre and bleed them into others and creating kind of a mash-up. It's always, yeah, I just love it. So for me... I just I would always prefer Blue Door and I'm so like my friends are like literally my life at this point with regards to like the music like Walter is always behind every record like we've grown so much together you know um I've been recording at the the Blue Door since 2018. My first ever studio was studio session was in the little studio at the back yes It's become more of a community and this place is a place where artists can feel safe to come and express and whatever song they've written, they can come into the room and feel at ease here. It's always chill. We're just capturing a performance. We're capturing a vibe. You know, there's always a friendship and a relationship that develops out of this and a bond when you create with people.