BUDDY PROJECT

Producer

Jeanne Montalvo is a Grammy-nominated audio engineer and radio producer. She was selected amongst thousands of applicants as the 2018 EQL resident at Spotify Studios and Electric Lady Studios in New York City, assisting in the recording process for artists like Michael Bublé, John Legend, Babasónicos, Alessia Cara, Anitta and many more. She also recorded sessions with Ivy Queen, Making Movies and Ruben Blades, Flor de Toloache, and Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra. In 2017, she was nominated for a Grammy Award as Mastering Engineer for Vladimir Horowitz: The Unreleased Live Recordings, and her recording of Multiverse by Bobby Sanabria's Latin Jazz Big Band was nominated for Best Latin Jazz Album at the 2012 Grammy Awards. She’s worked at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Tanglewood Music Festival, and has also worked on live recordings with Spike Lee and Al Kooper.  She broke into radio after receiving her Masters in Music Technology from New York University, working as an audio engineer and producer for National Public Radio and Bloomberg Radio and is now the sound designer and engineer for the Duolingo podcast. She is also creator of "Live from Latino USA"  a live and (mostly) unplugged video series that features Latinx talent from Jessie Reyez to Jose Feliciano. 

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Producer/Engineer/Mixer

As a 17-year veteran of music production and content creation, Lowell delivers projects that respect an artist’s intentions without sacrificing wide-scale appeal. “Music is a time capsule, a portal between the past and the future. It is important to create something lasting. A persistent memory; snapshots of who we are and how we think or dream. Songs are generational imprints deserving of our most beautiful flourishes.”
Vocal production and editing are among his most sought-after skills, with a knack for helping singers translate their emotions and intentions in ways that allow an audience to hear without borders. Alongside “dog ear” attention to detail, he helps elevate songs to their highest possible level of impact through careful selection, arrangement, capture, production, editing, mixing, and mastering, providing a “one-stop-shop” for completed visions rather than finished jobs.
Motion picture, film, TV, podcast, vlog, and social media clients work with Lowell to edit and enhance their audio, capture dialogue, create original scores, or curate professional, unique, and highly engaging content. “Great sound is not an ancillary; it is a necessity.”
Since 2005, Kieran and Lowell forged a friendship as their working relationship grew. By partnering in mid-2021 to remotely link his hybrid (analog/digital) production space in North Carolina with The Buddy Project in Astoria (NY), the two have quickly modernized and expanded TBP’s capacity and capabilities across a variety of “new world” scenarios.
Lowell’s resume includes working in some of the world’s great studios (Sonic Ranch, ClearTrack Recording, Germano Studios/NuMedia NY) and with entities and artists such as Herbie Hancock, “Bassy” Bob Brockman, Cedric “Ced Solo” Solomon, Angus and Julia Stone, Julian Velard, Pete Pidgeon, For the Foxes, Universal Music Group, Sony Records, ABC, CBS, NBC, MTV, and more. His work is featured across all broadcast and streaming platforms.

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Studio Owner/ Producer/ Engineer/ Mixer

Kieran was born in the French Quarter in New Orleans, and raised in Flint, Michigan. He was deeply influenced by his music-loving parents throughout his childhood. Kieran’s mother owned an independent record store specializing in Punk and New Wave music, his musician father had six-year old Kieran filling in the drummer position in his impromptu jam sessions on a regular basis. Through this he was exposed to an eclectic range of music from Cole Porter, Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, to the Rolling Stones, which would leave a lasting impression. Kieran in addition to owning The Buddy Project is a staff producer at Rabadash Studios in New Orleans. Some of the albums created at The Buddy Project include Sufjan Steven’s “Illinoise”, Julia Stone’s “The Memory Machine”, Farryl Purkiss’s “Home” and Angus & Julia Stone’s “Down The Way” Kieran has earned Multi Platinum records in Australia , France (Angus & Julia Stone’s “Down The Way”) and New Zealand (Midnight Youth’s “The Brave Don’t Run”) and a Gold Record in the U.S. (Better Than Ezra’s “Friction Baby”). He produced, mixed and engineered original recordings that have appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, FX, MTV, Showtime, The Sundance Channel and NPR. In 2007 Kieran was invited to speak in front of Congress representing independent labels in the congressional hearing for web radio royalties. He has designed sound for The Museum of Art and Design in Manhattan. Kieran’s production and mixing for Angus and Julia Stone’s “Down The Way” in 2010 won 8 Australian ARIA awards. In 2014 he produced Farryl Purkiss’ album “Home” which was nominated for a South African SAMA award. 2015 had Kieran working on both sides of the globe producing Dutch duo Vonder And Bloom’s ” Follow You Back Home” as well as Melbourne Australia’s Hollow Drums forthcoming debut. 2016 Saw “Cosmos” For Peruvian Rocker Pipe Villran named Rock Album of the Year by Peru’s La Republica. Kieran Proudly Endorses Eisen Audio Pre Amps Tul Microphones As a Producer Kieran is exclusively represented by Steven Scharf for Steven Scharf Entertainment Contact Here.

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