Disc Features Acclaimed Rush Drummer Nine-Minute Drum Solo

FOR RELEASE ON: MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2006

NEW YORK — NewYorkDVD, a leading DVD development, design and authoring firm, today announced that it has received the ‘Excellence in Music DVD’ award by the DVD Association for development for Neil Peart’s “ Anatomy of a Drum Solo‚” which was released by Hudson Music in the fall of 2005. The announcement was made as part of the DVD Excellence Awards presentation at the Spring Digital Hollywood event, at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel on March 29th.

Bernie Mitchell, president of the DVD Association, presented the award to NewYorkDVD CEO, Brian Brodeur (pictured above with Bruce Apar).

Developed for Hudson Music, ‘Anatomy of a Drum Solo’ is a two-disc DVD which features Peart, the acclaimed drummer for rock group Rush, discussing the elements of his nine-minute tour de force solo, which is a highlight of each Rush performance. Brodeur completed the work for long-time client Hudson Music in the fall of 2005. The disc is a must-have for Rush fans as well as drummers, featuring more than three hours of instructional and performance material. “The DVD format is an ideal way for music fans to examine and enjoy multiple elements of the musicians they worship, and it was a treat to work with such a hard-working professional as Neil Peart,” said Brodeur. “I am extremely honored to have been chosen as the recipient of the Excellence in Music DVD award; as a long-time member of the DVD industry, this is a capstone to a career dedicated to the fusion of music and DVD.”

Using the “Der Trommler” drum solo recorded in Frankfurt, Germany in September, 2004, Peart describes the inspiration and conceptual thinking behind his solos. Included are three multi-angles of the Frankfurt solo, two “explorations” — 30-minute-plus improvised workouts on the drums — as well as a never-before-released solo recorded in Hamburg, Germany in September, 2004 (“Ich Bin Ein Hamburger”); the Grammy Award-nominated solo “O Baterista‚” (from the “ Rush in Rio”‚ DVD); two full Rush performances (“Tom Sawyer‚” and “Subdivisions‚”) from the Frankfurt, 2004 concert, shot from the point of view of the drum cameras; interviews with Lorne Wheaton, Peart’s drum technician; Paul Northfield, Rush co-producer and engineer; a previously unreleased solo from the 1994 Rush “Counterparts” tour, alternate edits, audio-only bonus tracks, and a photo gallery. “The superb design, treatment of subject matter, and overall technical brilliance of the ‘Anatomy’ disc made it a clearly superior choice for the DVD-A Excellence award,” said Mitchell. “NewYorkDVD’s work with Hudson Music is a tremendous example of the creative choices that music producers can make with DVD.”

“Anatomy of a Drum Solo” is the latest collaboration between NewYorkDVD and Hudson Music, which includes the award-winning “Creative Control‚” with drummer Thomas Lang, “Liquid Drum Theater Featuring Mike Portnoy,” and high-profile live music DVDs, including “Drummers Collective 25th Anniversary Concert‚” and the 2004 release, “Steve Gadd Tribute Concert.”

With NewYorkDVD, Brodeur has developed and produced numerous music DVD titles, including Rod Stewart’s “One Night Only” Live at Royal Albert Hall‚ for J Records as well as the “Dog” title from Mike Keneally’s Exowax Recordings label.

NewYorkDVD operates a turnkey studio for expert-level DVD authoring, menu design, and replication. The company offers record label clients – including Warner Music Group, Sony/BMG Music, EMI, and Universal Music Group, as well as leading independent labels “a true creative partner in the conception, production, design, and authoring of high-quality DVD titles.”

Brodeur has developed several innovative concepts for music DVDs, including the first integration of ACID loops into an instructional music DVD, as well as early work with Web-connected DVD functionality.

NewYorkDVD maintains several complete authoring suites, including several Sonic Solutions workstations, Surround-sound Pro Tools mixing and 1:1 Final Cut Pro motion graphics/editing stations.

About NewYorkDVD
NewYorkDVD’s principal, Brian Brodeur, has been producing music and multimedia for more than 15 years. He has created award-winning DVDs for the corporate, entertainment and instructional markets, including discs for Pfizer, Columbia/Tristar, KINO International, and Fender Guitars. Mr. Brodeur is an expert in all stages of DVD production; from audio/video compression to creative interactive design and stable DVD functionality programming that enhances the user experience. He is a sought-after DVD consultant for leading vendors, including Video Technologies Group and Sonic Solutions.
NewYorkDVD’s extensive capabilities include expert-level encoding and authoring with Sonic Solutions systems, Final Cut Pro, comprehensive graphic design and motion menu development, surround sound mixing, multi-language translation/subtitling, DVD packaging, Adobe Flash development, and full-scale production and post-production services. NewYorkDVD provides competitively priced disc replication services, in small or large quantities, and offers comprehensive warehousing/fulfillment and e-commerce distribution solutions. For more information, visit the Web site at www.NewYorkDVD.com.
# # #
EDITOR’s NOTE: For a color photograph of screenshots the ‘Anatomy of a Drum Solo’ DVD or NewYorkDVD’s Brian Brodeur, or shots of NewYorkDVD production suites, please contact Chris Pfaff at 201-218-0262 or chris@chrispfafftechmedia.com

DVD developed in NTSC and PAL Versions • Production Completed From Digital Betacam Master Tapes From HD Concert Shoot

FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2004

NEW YORK – NewYorkDVD, a leading DVD development, design and authoring firm, today announced that it provided expert-level authoring, encoding, and menu design on the recently-released JRecords DVD ‘One Night Only: Rod Stewart Live at the Royal Albert Hall.’

The NewYorkDVD team worked in conjunction with Victor Campanile, associate director of DVD production for BMG, and Tom Corson, executive producer at J Records, on the 90-minute DVD, including development of DVD architecture, DVD-ROM Web links, as well as seamless motion menu design. “The team worked flawlessly, and simultaneously, on several different aspects of the DVD,” said Brian Brodeur, NewYorkDVD founder and lead producer on ‘One Night Only.’ “Prior to completing the video encoding and 5.1/2.0 mastering and encoding, we were creating all the motion menus, and seamless motion transitions. Everyone on the team knocked it out. Our motion graphic design team produced amazing menus – from scratch – in rapid succession.”

Working from Digital Betacam master tapes created from the HD concert shoot, Brodeur’s team completed an all-region DVD product – in both NTSC and PAL – in rapid fashion. The PAL version was turned around in three days, with NewYorkDVD supporting Keith Morris, coordinator of the European release of ‘One Night Only.’ The ‘One Night Only’ disc also involved collaboration between Brodeur’s team and audio mastering engineer Dave Kutch, who handled the 5.1 and stereo mastering for both NTSC and PAL versions of the title, prior to authoring.

- more -

NewYorkDVD operates a turn-key studio for expert-level DVD encoding, authoring and menu design. Having won awards in recent years for such titles as Thomas Lang’s ‘Creative Control’ and ‘Liquid Drum Theater Featuring Mike Portnoy,’ NewYorkDVD offers record label clients – including Warner Music Group, BMG, Sony Music, EMI, and Universal Music Group, as well as leading independent labels – a true creative partner in the conception, production, design, and authoring of high-quality DVD titles.

In addition to its acknowledged excellence in instructional and studio music titles, the company has worked on high-profile live music DVDs, including’ ‘Drummers Collective 25th Anniversary Concert’ and the recently released ‘Steve Gadd Tribute Concert.’ Brodeur has developed several innovative concepts for music DVDs, including the first integration of ACID loops into an instructional music DVD, as well as early work with Interactual’s DVD Sync-like features. NewYorkDVD maintains several complete authoring suites, including several Sonic Solutions Creator workstations, Avid Pro Tools 6.2.3 and 1:1 Final Cut Pro motion graphics stations.

- more -

About NewYorkDVD

NewYorkDVD’s principal, Brian Brodeur, has been producing music and multimedia for more than 15 years. He has created award-winning DVDs for the corporate, entertainment and instructional markets, including discs for Pfizer, Hal Leonard Publishing, KINO International, and Fender Guitars. Mr. Brodeur is an expert in all stages of DVD production, from audio/video compression to creative interactive design and stable DVD functionality programming that enhances the user experience. He is a sought-after DVD consultant for leading vendors, including VCA Fusion and Sonic Solutions.

NewYorkDVD’s extensive capabilities include expert-level encoding and authoring with Sonic Solutions Creator systems, Final Cut Pro, comprehensive graphic design and motion menu development, surround sound mixing, multi-language translations and recording/subtitling. NewYorkDVD provides competitively-priced disc replication services, in small or large quantities, and offers comprehensive warehousing/fulfillment and e-commerce distribution solutions. For more information, visit the Web site at www.NewYorkDVD.com.

# # #
EDITOR’S NOTE: For a color photograph of NewYorkDVD’s Brian Brodeur, shots of NewYorkDVD prodution suites, please contact Chris Pfaff at 201-218-0262 or chris@chrispfafftechmedia.com

New York Metro

By David Weiss

Jul 1, 2004 12:00 PM

…A few blocks away at NYDVD (www.newyorkdvd.com), the focus is squarely on the wonders of the digital versatile disc. “I’ve always gravitated toward the role of producer,” explains Brian Brodeur, NYDVD founder, on establishing his company back in 2001. “DVD has always been thought of as the truer multimedia format, and my skill set as a musician lends itself to developing creative products. The advent of DVD and its obvious embrace by the consumer is an important point, not only for the large institutional companies, but also producers like me.”

Brodeur’s company, which is located within the large Manhattan Center Productions facility, focuses its services — DVD project management, encoding/authoring, static and motion menu design, and audio/video production — around two full-blown Sonic Solutions DVD Creator systems. “Those are desktop systems, but because of my background, I have them set up much like recording studios,” he says. “Manhattan Center is a perfect fit for us, with three complete Avid editing systems and two Neve VR recording rooms with surround capabilities. We are in a great position to provide DVD services to Manhattan Center.”

NYDVD can see how music in particular is relating to DVD. “There’s basically two products out there that are serving the music industry: the concert product and the bonus/behind-the-scenes product,” Brodeur says. “Independent artists are going to start embracing DVD because of its enormous power as a promotional tool and ability to deliver a wide variety of content, including multichannel audio and multilanguage capabilities. We’ve developed some wonderful surround mixes for the Dave Weckl Band and Steve Gadd, where we actually mix the band around the listener as if you were the drummer. There’s been no increase yet in DVD-A. That’s a function of the format wars and the installed base of players.”

DVD facilities have their own challenges with production increasingly available to in-house and home users. “People can spend very little money and have functional DVD systems — it’s only natural,” he continues. “We’ve begun shifting our business toward a service side, providing superior design and extensive quality control: making sure that discs are functionally compliant and error-free. NYDVD is not competing with the entry-level DVD producer who just hangs a shingle — we’re collaborating with clients to create content specifically for DVD.”

FOR RELEASE: MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2003

DRUMMERS COLLECTIVE 25TH ANNIVERSARY DVD DUE IN STORES JUNE 9TH; LEADING DRUMMERS AND BASSISTS CELEBRATE NOTED DRUM SCHOOL ON TWO-DISC SET

Hudson Music and New York DVD Team on Production of Classic Performance Title; Steve Gadd, John Patitucci, Dave Weckl, and Victor Wooten Featured in Classic Sets

NEW YORK, NY — Hudson Music, a leading music instruction video producer, and New York DVD, one of New York’s leading providers of DVD development services, today announced the upcoming launch of Drummer’s Collective 25th Anniversary Celebration, an electric two-disc DVD that captures some of the finest drum performances ever captured in a single event. Videotaped at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on November, 24, 2002, the DVD is a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Drummer’s Collective, the famed New York City drum school that has taught and inspired an entire generation of drummers and percussionists.

Drummer’s Collective 25th Anniversary Celebration will be released on June 9th with a retail price of $49.95. The two-disc title, which contains an astonishing five hours’ worth of video, is the finest example of Hudson Music’s “education plus inspiration” line of music videos and DVDs, combining the live performance, on disc one, with an array of special features on disc two, including artist interviews, 5.1 surround sound mixes of performances, alternate edits of performances with the Footcam, as well as more information on the Drummer’s Collective.

Highlights of the DVD include:
- Kenwood Dennard, playing drums and keyboards simultaneously
- Dave Weckl, and The Dave Weckl Band, featuring Tom Kennedy on bass, Steve Weingart on keyboards, and Gary Meek on saxophone, performing a burning set, capped by an explosive Weckl solo
- Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez and John Patitucci, along with Cuban keyboard player Oriente Lopez, playing a set that showcased the amazing rhythmic artistry of El Negro and the beautifully expressive playing of Patitucci
- Victor Wooten’s mesmerizing bass solo, followed by a touching solo performed by Felix Pastorius, in tribute to his father, the late, legendary bass player Jaco Pastorius
- Steve Smith’s brilliant solo performance, including tour de force playing on his jungle kit, followed by a duet with Victor Wooten
- Steve Gadd and the Gadd Gang, in their first performance in ten years, closing out the performance with a set of soulful R&B, featuring Cornell Dupree on guitar, Eddie Gomez on bass, Ronnie Cuber on baritone sax, and Larry Goldings on Hammond B3.

“We set out to capture an entire era of bass and drum performances in a single evening, and the final DVD presents the essence of that celebration as well as the story of the Drummers Collective,” said Paul Siegel, principal of Hudson Music. “We worked hard to ensure that the drum and bass performances were captured in such a way that the artistry of each performer is fully rendered.” Hudson Music’s Phil Fallo edited the title.

Hudson Music’s history is closely linked with the Drummer’s Collective, as Siegel and partner Robb Wallis, who met in 1979 while studying at The Collective, purchased the school in 1980, and later added the Bass Collective. They maintain ownership of the The Collective, with partner John Castellano conducting daily operations. Siegel and Wallis created DCI Music Video in 1982, which has produced some of the finest drum and bass instructional video and DVD titles in the industry, with a global following.

“The production and editing on this title were superb, with particular attention to the performers, and the final product reflects this work,” said Brian Brodeur, president of New York DVD, which will encode and develop the two-disc set.

Special DVD features include: 5.1 Surround Sound mixes (one per The Dave Weckl Band, Horacio Hernandez and John Patitucci, Victor Wooten and Steve Smith, and The Gadd Gang), Steve and Victor’s rehearsal, Artist Interviews, Alternate Edits with FootCam, More about the Collective, The Gadd Gang Soundcheck, a Photo Gallery and more.Limited Edition sets will be offered that will include a Bonus CD, comprising one song per The Dave Weckl Band, Horacio Hernandez and John Patitucci, Steve Smith and Victor Wooten, and The Gadd GangDrummer’s Collective 25th Anniversary Celebration will be distributed through Hudson Music’s distribution channels, including www.hudsonmusic.com.

Hudson Music products are available from your local music retailer or Hudson Music at 1-888-796-2992, fax 914-246-5282 or e-mail hudsoninfo@aol.com. Visit Hudson online at www.hudsonmusic.com. For dealer information please contact Hal Leonard Publications, 7777 W. Bluemound Rd., Milwaukee, WI 53213, tel: 414-774-3630, fax: 414-774-3259, www.halleonard.com.

# # #

EDITOR’S NOTE: For a color photograph of Hudson Music or New York DVD executives, as well as production shots and artist performance shots, please contact Chris Pfaff at 201-218-0262 or c.pfaff@att.net

CONTACT:
BRIAN BRODEUR
212-34-NYDVD (212-346-9383)
brian@newyorkdvd.com
www.newyorkdvd.com