Andrew Reed

A recording and creative artist dubbed a “rock mystic” by the Indie press. He isolated himself from the music world and social media in his remote cabin for a year and created a unique sonic record by saturating analog tape running 3 times normal speed, capturing the performances at the moment of inspiration. As an evolution of his isolation, he transformed into Andrew Reed & The Liberation.

Reed sees “the Liberation” as a personal event of complete self-actualization and self-acceptance. Live, Reed “goes wild” with reckless physical disregard, often trashing guitars against cymbals and mic stands. “To me, rock wasn’t meant to be pretty but desperate, risky, and bombastic where it could go off the rails at any moment, not over-rehearsed or efficient and safe. Where one could throw their life away in the moment.” His last record “Twisted World”, climbed to  #20 on the Billboard AC Indicator Chart. The latest single is Don’t Say Goodbye, a song about a near-death experience Reed had when swept overboard in the Gulf of Alaska.

Reed’s career and drive to ever-expand his consciousness have put him in the company of some of the world’s leading scientists and researchers, whereby proprietary synapse-altering technologies were developed to send artists “beyond themselves” – perhaps to make Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Zappa, and Beatles-type recordings. Reed is a deviant flirting with enlightenment, and our world needs these sensitive and delicate souls.

Reed’s work is almost always introspective. However on one of his latest releases, “As a Bird of the Air”, he sings about relationships and the common worries of people with lyrics that express the extreme angst and inner turmoil of growing up and trying to understand the world. Reed plays all the instruments except for drums, which were performed by Wayne Redden. Through “As a Bird of the Air”, this wild deviant shows what can be produced sonically, a unique record of songs that radio will love and that will lift people.

“Can I live as a bird of the air or lily of the field? Can I rise above these Earthly cares?” After more than a year of isolation in his cabin, away from the music business and social media, observing nature an album emerged. Reed is an ultra-creative guitarist and recording artist, who is so far out, that he is known as the Outlier.

Alex Hamlin

Alex graduated Cum Laude at Montreat College with a BA in Music Business with a focus in audio production. He grew up in the upstate of South Carolina before moving to Western North Carolina for school and to pursue a career near the growing music scene of Asheville. He has spent much time at Echo Mountain Recording Studio during college, and has assisted on numerous recording sessions and projects.

Joe Parker

From an early age, music has been a quintessential part of Joe’s core memories and growth. His father was a radio broadcast DJ in the late 70s-80s, and instilled in him a passion for intensive listening and musical camaraderie. From his father’s love for R&B and Prog, Psychedelic and Hard Rock combined with heavy IDM genre influences from his decade older brother, Joe grew up with a taste for anything in-between. The weirder and the more visceral the better.

Starting with church hymns on his mother’s piano at 10 years old, he quickly began looking for the right instrument to call his own in adolescence. His uncle and cousins, who were touring musicians at the time, helped him to discover a love for the drive and release of percussion. He began playing in bands around his hometown of Columbus, GA from the age of 14. He picked up the guitar at 18 and learned how to write his own progressions.

He began writing his first solo album at 23. With no true recording studios for a “working-class” budgeted musician in his hometown area, he realized the dream of opening his own from his historic home in downtown. He completed a Bachelor’s of Science in Music Production and Business degree at Full Sail University and began recording several local artist’s work, including his own.

Soon after, Joe and his wife decided to follow the call to Asheville to seek bigger opportunities, which landed him here at Sedgwick Studios.