The second Winter School, with Chris Kimsey
20 February 2019
The second Visconti Studio Winter School ran from 11 to 15 February 2019, led by Chris Kimsey, who began his career at Olympic Studios and has worked with the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Mott the Hoople, Marillion, and BB King.
An album of original material was cut to two inch tape over the week. At the centre of it were James Larter, Stuart Zender, and Ollie Clark, with session players Ben Finlay, Alba AR, Christine Buras, Lotte Betts-Dean, Freddy Wordsworth, Joe Griffin, and Justine Yu-Shi Bui on guitars, basses, drums, tuned percussion, and strings.
Winter School students and Kingston music interns worked the sessions alongside them, with Rob Plummer and Ebby Acquah on technical duties. The week was filmed as a video blog, which is on YouTube.
Photographs by Ezzidin Alwan.