

REVIEWS:
The Independent - May 2010
Dashboard Confessional - 1
Alejandro Escovedo - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Lucy Woodward - 1 2
Danielle Spencer - 1 2
Paste Magazine
Austin Chronicle - 1 2 3
NY Times
Rolling Stone
Spin
Billboard
Morrissey:
NME
Manic Street Preachers:
Oct 04 - Independent UK
INTERVIEWS:
Feb 10 - Spinner
Aug 09 - Danielle Spencer EPK
Mar 06 - Telegraph
Mar 05 - Rock Ahead
Critics hail Tony Visconti as one of the most important producers in the history of rock. And for once, the critics are right. Consider just a few of the classic musical moments Visconti's helped to create. T. Rex's "Get It On (Bang A Gong)" is a true cornerstone of rock and roll. David Bowie's "Young Americans," "Heroes" and "The Man Who Sold The World" are masterpieces. The Moody Blues' "I Know You're Out There Somewhere" and "Your Wildest Dreams" are indelibly etched into our memory. And there are so many more.
Currently, Tony is London commencing production on Debbie Clarke's debut release for Warner Bros. Germany.
Tony produced Alejandro Escovedo's 2010 critically-acclaimed
release entitled Street Songs of Love (Concord Music Group), produced and
mixed Lucy Woodward's debut release on Verve, Hooked! and is in the midst
of completing Kristeen Young's 2010 release.
In 2009, Tony arranged
several tracks for the #1 Fall Out Boy release, Folie A Deux (Island)
and "Belle of the Boulevard" from Dashboard Confessional's After
The Ending CD. This year also saw the release of Australian singer/songwriter
Danielle Spencer's Calling All Magicians.
Earlier in the year, Tony produced Kristeen Young's upcoming fifth CD release, Music for Strippers, Hookers and the Odd On-Looker.
Previously, Tony
produced and mixed Anti-Flag's The Bright Lights of America
(RCA) and Alejandro Escovedo's critically-acclaimed Real Animal
(Backporch/Bluenote). Tony also produced and mixed, "Mercury Jim," off
the Razorlight lp, Slipway Fires (Vertigo/Mercury).
Tony produced and mixed Angelique Kidjo's Djin Djin,
with guest artists Alicia Keys, Josh Groban, Peter Gabriel, Carlos Santana,
Joss Stone and Ziggy Marley. Djin Djin (Razor
and Tie) won Tony his first Grammy for Best Contemporary World Music Album.
It is her best selling album ever!
Tony released his autobiography, Bowie,
Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy (Harper Collins UK), written with Richard
Havers.
Tony enjoyed a #1 release with the Morrissey
release, Ringleader of The Tormentors, which he produced
and mixed in Rome at Ennio Morricone's famed Forum Studios.
One of Tony's
most lauded productions is David Bowie's critically acclaimed
Reality (Iso/Columbia) CD. During its first week of
release, Reality debuted at #1 on the Billboard Euro
Charts. This comes on the heels of David Bowie's platinum-plus
Heathen release.
Tony, who did the original
mixes for the T. Rex concert film, Born To Boogie,
was called upon to remix the soundtrack to the seminal T. Rex
film in both stereo and 5.1 for its DVD release. In 2006, this DVD release won
Best Overall DVD/Creative at the HEW (Home Entertainment Week magazine)
Awards in London. In the 5.1 realm, Tony's completed eleven (11) 5.1 mixes including
six titles for David Bowie (Young Americans, David
Live In Dublin, Stage, Heathen, Reality and Live At
The Tower) and T. Rex' landmark rock masterpiece,
Electric Warrior.
In 2005, Tony spent some time
in Denmark producing Danish rock artists Kashmir release, No
Balance Palace, for Sony/Denmark. At home, Tony did the 5.1 remix
of Coheed and Cambria's In Keeping Secrets Of Silent
Earth: 3 (Sony),TRAPT's Someone in Control
(Warner Bros.) and FeFe Dobson's Sunday Love (Island).
Previously, Tony produced tracks for The Manic Street Preachers'
Lifeblood (Sony/UK), The Dandy Warhols' Welcome
To The Monkey House (Capitol), L'Avventura (JetSet)
for Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham of Luna, arranged and produced
tracks for The Finn Brothers' Everyone Is Here (Nettwerk)
and arranged "Never Deny You" on Ziggy Marley's Dragonfly
(Private Music).
Most successful rock producers can be easily pigeonholed.
They offer distinctive sonic styles that, while exciting, can also make everything
they work on sound similar. Not Tony. From Thin Lizzy to Luscious
Jackson, The Strawbs to U2, Gentle
Giant to Mercury Rev, this underground legend consistently
produces music that sounds as unique as the artists themselves. Complimentarity
is Visconti's highest goal; he never allows his own personality to overwhelm the
task at hand. For proof, listen to Sparks. Or Badfinger.
Or The Alarm. Or Ziggy Marley. Or D-Generation.
Or Kristeen Young.
Producer, arranger, musician, mixer,
exemplary collaborator-Tony is all of these. He is also among the greatest and
most genuine musical souls of our industry.















