Marc Whitmore: “If someone wants to record in a big creepy church, we should really probably go record in a big creepy church…”

The name Marc Whitmore may not be one that is too familiar to some of our readers. However, a couple of weeks after this conversation took place, the engineer/producer/mixer was due to fly out to Los Angeles where he was nominated for his second Grammy award. Already 2022 winner of the prestigious Album of the Year award for his contribution to Jon Batiste’s 2021 album We Are, Whitmore is back in LA again for his engineering efforts on Batiste’s latest album, 2023’s World Music Radio. As if working on Grammy-nominated albums wasn’t enough to keep him busy, Marc also recently released his solo album, Mirages (read all about that here). In our latest cover story, we spoke to Marc about the importance of being recognised for his work, his love of recording in creepy old churches, ...

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