From Bjork, to Tina Turner, to Sheryl Crowe, Gary Bromham has worked with a best-of list in pop music over the years. his experience on large format mixers at Olympic Studios in London gives him a unique insight on how to approach mixing in Reason 6's new large mixer. Gary shows how he mixes and the very musical decisions that one faces during such a technical endeavour.
Gary began his production/writing career in Iceland of all places! During his time spent working in Iceland he co-produced the Eurovision entry (nil points I hear you say!), made an album with jazz-funk band Mezzoforte and worked with the now high profile artist, Bjork.
Whilst working with Andrew Ridgeley on his solo album Gary was also fortunate enough to work with George Michael on some of the album, which was understandably very inspirational. Though not hugely successful in commercial terms, the recording of this album did teach him a great deal in respect of the calibre of session musicians he was working with and the type of studio he was able to record in.
As a result of Gary writing with Andrew Ridgeley he was offered his first publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music in 1990. This proved to be a great success. Gary wrote with many varied and successful artists and songwriters including Sheryl Crow, Bow Wow Wow, The Tubes’ Fee Waybill, Robbie Neville, Eddie Money and The Fixx to name but a few, spending a large period of his time in New York, Nashville and Los Angeles.
In 1995, after a great deal of hard work, and with the help of a manager Gary signed a major record deal with EMI with his band “The Big Blue”. They released two singles and achieved moderate success with the band.
Following the demise of the band Gary returned to songwriting and production, signing a new publishing deal with Reverb Music. He has had hits with Lonyo’s “Summer of Love” and with Dannii Minogue on the song “Who do you love now” He also returned to working with Sheryl Crowe, mixing the single “Soak up the Sun”.
More recently he has collaborated with top songwriter Pam Sheyne on different writing/ production projects including Sony sensation Delta Goodrem, Lemar, Tina Arena and Lisa Scott-Lee.
Most recently Gary has just has just finished producing the debut album for Icelandic pop sensation,, Nylon; written and produced songs on an album for new artist, Karen Louise and produced 3 songs for a successful EMI covers compilation album, Roadtrip. He currently has holds on songs for Kylie and Vanessa Amorosi, collaborating with another top songwriter, Steve Lee. Gary also continues to pursue his own band project, Atom. The debut album, Safe Orbit, being available on iTunes.