Chillington studio

The Chillington studio is Jason Kay's personal recording studio in Buckinghamshire, England. Over the 8-9 years of its existence, it has been used in the recording of 4 Jamiroquai albums, all from the post-Zender era, Synkronized, A Funk Odyssey, Dynamite, Rock Dust Light Star and the songs Runaway and "Radio" from High Times: Singles 1992-2006. Various interviews have also taken place in the studio. The video to "Runaway" also features a few seconds of footage recorded at the studio, more precisely in front of the mixing deck.

The studio is sometimes referred to by fans as the "green room", "cable room" or "the mess", referencing the insides of the room, such as the dark green walls, and many cables running across its floor.

History

After the success of Travelling Without Moving, Jason decided to construct his own home studio, and record his band's new album, Synkronized there. Despite the success of Travelling and its tour, Kay still lacked the finances necessary to conduct the conversion of an unused poolside structure into a fully equipped and fully working studio, so he decided to ask his record label to grant him a large amount of money (often estimated to 9,000,000 dollars by fans, though this is unverified) that he would have to pay back with the money earned from the upcoming album, getting himself into a risky situation that solely depended on the sales and the critical reception of the forthcoming album, Symphonized, which was a project dropped and scrapped after a disgruntled Stuart Zender left the band, accusing Kay of hardly ever crediting the actual songwriters of Jamiroquai songs, and unfairly splitting the band's royalties, among other reasons. Symphonized was the predecessor of the Synkronized project, which had a good reception among both fans and critics, and had also reached a high number of sales that however, did not exceed the success of Travelling, but were enough to level Jason's debts towards his label.

Equipment

The studio houses a large amount of vintage music equipment such as keyboard synthesizers, mixers, reel-to-reel tape recorders, vocoders and so on. Jason claimed in an interview that he has come into possession of an electronic keyboard synthesizer that is circa 40 years old.

Today

After releasing High Times: Singles 1992-2006, Jason started renovating the studio, as it hardly was kept in order during the 1998-2006 period. The renovation has probably come to an end in 2007 when Matt Johnson announced that blueprints for the seventh Jamiroquai studio album were laid.^[1]

Albums recorded at Chillington

• Synkronized
• A Funk Odyssey
• Dynamite
• the bonus tracks for High Times: Singles 1992-2006
• Rock Dust Light Star

Notes

1. ^ Jamiroquai | News | Matt Johnson blog update - 15 July 2007, 21:49 (BST) at funkin.com

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