Selected Credits from Client Albums:
Dino Club - Bright Screen Wide: "A very special thanks to George Dussault, who could have just engineered the record, but instead opened his heart and ears and became much more; producer, friend and fellow Dino. Thank You."
Bohemian Quartet - Beyond Tradition: "Special thanks to George Dussault, a truly amazing recording engineer who managed to capture us at our best moments and the put it all together for this CD."
Rhythm Room - Circle of Souls: "Special thanks to George Dussault for his amazing talents as musician, songwriter and producer; Instruments played by George: Piano, Guitar Bass, Acoustic Guitar and Synthesizer."
Baylock - One Good To Be Told: "George Dussault, you are just as much a part of this album as us. Beyond just tolerating and recording us, you've made us better musicians in the process."
Joe Parillo Trio with Jay Hoggard - Segments: "Thank you to George Dussault for his extraordinary ears and always the extra in engineering."
Antoinette Ferrara - Meditations of the Heart: "Thanks to George Dussault for working tirelessly to ensure the completion and quality of this project - You're the best!"
George and MD would like to thank our clients for supporting Galilee over the years, and for their kind words.
BY RICK FOSTER SUN CHRONICLE STAFF
Dec 14, 2011 - 17:00:12 EST
Founded by North Attleboro drummer, percussionist and educator Rick Morin, The Rhythm Room is known for eye-popping stage shows and original music that covers the musical waterfront from pop to rock, blues to jazz and African rhythms to country.
Now the versatile troupe has taken on an even bigger challenge: topping their well-received first two albums. Judging by their newly-released CD "Groove Infusion," it appears they have succeeded.
Those who know The Rhythm Room from their crowd-pleasing stage shows at Showcase Live or their well-conceived original songs will be well-pleased with the group's latest offering from its high octane title tune to its sensitive love songs that make up a genre-bending trip around the musical universe.
Anyone who isn't familiar with the North Attleboro based group will be astounded by the musical capabilities of the band, blending Broadway-style glitz with the spontaneity of a rock concert.
Members of the Rhythm Room cast will be performing original music along with holiday tunes and classic covers Friday evening at the Lighthouse Bar at Twin River Casino in Lincoln, R.I.
Groove Infusion was produced by Cumberland audio wizard and prolific guitarist George Dussault, who polishes the slick production to a high sheen. The record also features equally sharp songwriting that swings from the driving rock of "Groove Infusion" to a Louisiana drawl on the bayou-friendly "Cajun Lullabye" and a Nashville-esque "Hiccups and Heartaches" whose lyrics give a musical kiss-off to a fickle boyfriend.
There are also brassy blues instrumentals ("Jibberjam"), Blood Sweat and Tears-reminiscent rock hybrids ("She Devil") and ample demonstrations of the group's virtuosic percussion roots ("The Core," "Birchbark and Glowsticks").
The surprise is that all this genre-hopping in one package works. It does because for several reasons: tight, purposeful songwriting, adherence to carefully-crafted themes, high production values and the multi-instrumental and vocal capabilities of a talented cast.
Julie Marinucci and Tom Frederick highlight a cadre of talented vocalists while Morin, Dussault, Alan and Kait Clavette, Micah Weaver, Seth Antonitis and Tyler Matte as a group more than hold their own on everything from keyboards to African drumming and brass instruments to the digeridoo.
If you're in the market for a last-minute stocking-stuffer, "Groove Infusion" will have your favorite music fans rocking in front of the Christmas tree. Copies can be ordered on the group's web site, www.rhythmroomlive.com.
Malyssa Ready to Open Up
JOHN FUZEK - MOTIF MAGAZINE - Oct .20, 2011
The first one is from Malyssa Bellarosa. I first met Malyssa back in the days when she fronted her band, S&M. She is an alumnus of my old Hear in Rhode Island Festivals.
This disc, Open Up, is a stellar work of recording. Producer/Engineer/Arranger George Dussault of Galilee Studios in Cumberland is a musical genius. “George is extremely professional and efficient, but those qualities are second to the creativeness and musical intuition he possesses.” Malyssa says. I have previously heard some of his work with Kris Hansen’s Viking Jesus project and was quite impressed. Dussault transformed Bellarosa’s compositions into pop-indie rock perfection.
While Dussualt played most of the instruments on Open Up, Malyssa provided powerful and passionate lead vocals, sometimes layered, on each of the disc’s nine songs. She has a distinctive phrasing style that is consistent in all the tracks. Bellarosa wrote three of the songs for the project as “assignments” for a RISA Songwriters In The Round Show at AS220 and a Four Corners Show at the Mediator. All of the songs are gems, but she definitely saved the best for last.
Track # 9, “Shine” is an anthemic closer to the CD. She sings, “Open Up, Don’t Hide, Share your heart, share your mind, Forget the voices, Forget the voices.” It is such a powerful song it could be a closing number for a rock musical or Broadway play. I had it playing in a loop most of the day that I got the disc. You need to get out, see Malyssa play and get this CD. You can do this by attending her CD release party on Thursday, October 27th at 9pm at the Spot Undergound. The music is also available as a digital download for $10 at www.vibedeck.com/malyssabellarosa using PayPal. Malyssa BellaRosa and George Dussault (special guests to be announced) will perform the songs on the CD at the onset of the release party.
By Bill Copeland on November 11, 2011
Malyssa Bellarosa just recently released her first solo CD, Open Up. The CD is certainly an opening up for this Rhode Island singer-songwriter. Here, she steps away from her acoustic solo mode that she is known for in Providence and shows more of her aggressive side. Bellarosa is hard rocking this time around, with producer George Dussault playing most of the instruments to help flesh out her creative vision. Bellarosa and Dussault recorded Open up in his Galilee Studios in Cumberland, Rhode Island.
Bellarosa’s voice and songwriting make you picture her as some kind of exotic sorceress, a magical woman who can conjure many musical nuances. Like a magician, she suddenly brings the unexpected into full view from out of nowhere, with her musical sleight of hand.
Open Up begins with “Lover Undercover,” Bellarosa’s silky smooth voice easing its way forward over the pop melodies that inform this song. This vocalist takes her natural sliding voice and asserts it over her clever, textured musical terrain. It is a treat for the ears when this young lady takes her timbre out for a joy ride.
“Moving On” finds Bellarosa in more hard rocking territory, aggressively belting out her vocal lines like a big cat roar. She just belts those words without ever losing her sensual exotic timbre.
With its hypnotic keyboards from producer Dussault, “Wounds” showcases Bellarosa’s softer vocal approach. On this quiet, tender number, she emotes all sorts of haunting, lovely coos and mesmerizing charm. Bellarosa has a larger than life presence in her music, projecting many emotions with power and technique.
“Music Is My Soul” is the theme song for Bellarosa’s life. She is, has been, and always will be a woman whose music defines her life and projects her persona onto a larger canvas. This song is also a beautiful artistic expression of one person’s love of her art. It is in Bellarosa’s clever use of dynamics to announce the energy abounding inside her.
“All My Love” leaps into a Heart-Pat Benatar mode with an acoustic-electric guitar mesh. Bellarosa gets 1970s style belty in her chorus. She kicks scratches, and claws her way through this tough mama vocal approach. Listeners will like the way she sings this song while at the same time becoming afraid to run into her in a dark alley. This one could be a bad ass hit single.
A contemplation of economic injustice, “One Headlight Out” describes how the distribution of money divides us and binds us into different lifestyles. Bellarosa puts heart and soul into this one with her mighty, emotive vocal, leaving no doubt where her sympathies lie.
“Me Without You” plays out its succession of gusty choruses with a mighty guitar in the background blowing heavy winds into its sail. Bellarosa creates a tempest of emotion and soul, like she’s directing it all with a magic wand, layers and textures all under her command. Again, she comes across like a sorceress, walking to the edge of a cliff, raising her staff, and causing the sea below her to erupt into huge waves of sound.
Bellarosa always draws a careful balance between technique and feeling “Never Be” gets its melancholy, mournful feel from the dual cellos of Allison Reid and Samantha Wendland and a lightly picked acoustic guitar. With her wide timbre and rangy voice, Bellarosa perfectly captures the sadness of expression, much like the string duo supporting her.
Bellarosa closes out with “Shine,” a song that encourages you to ignore the critical voices around you in life and go for the thing you’re most focused on. Her energetic voice powers this one into anthem-like choruses. She lets you know that she means business and she will live life on her own terms.
Bellarosa and Dussault have much to be proud of here. Her voice, songwriting, and his instrumentation and production combined to craft a very likable, catchy disc. Bellarosa is one of the most impressive vocalists on the Rhode Island music scene. She should be talking to booking agents about a northeast tour of original rock venues.
www.reverbnation.com/malyssamusic
The Sun Chronicle, Attleboro - No. Attleboro, Mass. s Thursday, October 2, 2008
Rhythm Room aims high and succeeds with "Circle of Souls"
BY RICK FOSTER
SUN CHRONICLE STAFF
Few musicians or composers would try to compress the story of rhythm and its influence on life and music into a single, live show or a CD.
But that's precisely what The Rhythm Room, percussion-based ensemble conceived by drummer and music educator Rick Morin, does in its new live show and indie CD titled "Circle of Souls." The result, which the band rolled out on stage Friday and Saturday at Rhode Island College, turns out to he far more than a collection of songs.
Circle of Souls, which tracks the beat of human experience through the blues, urban rhythms, African, native American and World Music, is a complete thematic experience that invokes soul, street beats, jazz, rock and even hip hop through 16 original - and memorable - tunes. Produced by multi-instrumentalist and all-around sound wizard George Dussault, the disc must qualify as one of the most significant works of art ever released by a local ensemble or soloist.
Morin, who hosts a North Attleboro cable TV music show also called The Rhythm Room, is the visionary who built the band over the course of several years from a cadre of former students and highly virtuosic friends. Morin himself either wrote or collaborated on more than half the songs.
Unlike other contemporary percussion groups, The Rhythm Room does more than drum on trash cans, plumbing and floorboards. They integrate guitars, synthesizers, horns and lush vocal harmonies to create a full- flavored melodic experience.
Vocalist Julie Marinucci, who co-wrote several of the songs, lights up the disc with her at-times soulful, at-times soaring voice. On "In The Beginning," which she wrote, Marinucci sets the scene with a sensitive preamble that leads into "One Voice," a powerful, optimistic anthem written by Dussault and Morin. Songs like "Beat Street," a collaboration with rapper D-Rhyme, capture the percussive energy of the streets. "Maka Sica," which Marinucci sings partly in Spanish, brings listeners ringside to what one imagines to be a Barcelona cabaret.
The influences and the genres roll on and on. But variety somehow reinforces rather than dilutes "Circle of Souls," a unified whole made from disparate but complementary pieces.
While The Rhythm Room is essentially a collaboration between nine musicians including Morin, guitarist-producer Dussault's influence is felt more than most on the tour de force disc. Dussault's piano and synth parts underpin a good part of the album, and his versatile guitar playing is prominently on display as well.
Dussault, a top-class studio producer who has worked with both local and national talents, also gives the new CD a 'live' feel by minimizing spacing between individual cuts and underlaying the recordings with a subtle background that simulates an expectant concert crowd.
Both the disc and the live show rely on a cast of highly- versatile musicians who must fill multiple roles. Morin, Harry Hagan, Micah Weaver and Dave Davignon provide the core of the Rhythm Room's percussion. Seth Antonis doubles on percussion and digeridoo. Alan Clavette plays trombone as well as performs keyboard and vocal parts, while Kait Clavette plays trumpet and euphonium as well as singing backing vocals and performing on keyboards, guitar and trumpet.
Tom Frederick sings as well as narrates and plays world percussion.
The Rhythm Room videotaped its performances last weekend for a future DVD that they can show to potential bookers. Morin is candid about his desire to promote a national tour for The Rhythm Room, and his confidence is not misplaced.
In a world of Celtic Woman, Celtic Thunder and River-dance, the world is ready for a live ensemble founded on something other than step-dancing, stage prop castles and hackneyed pub ballads.
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"Amazing job George. We couldn't thank ya enough." - The Flawed
"He puts his pants on like everyone else but when George puts his pants on he make super rad records." - Mustache Ride
"Hey George, I just wanted to email you and tell you the final copy of our cd from this weekend is f***ing AMAZING. It came out so good, everyone loves it already and multiple people have been asking about where we did it and where they can get more info, so its looking pretty good. I just wanted to thank you for helping us out so much, and doing an amazing job on the cd!" - Done By 9
"Our brand new demo is done and we couldn't be more proud of it!!! It is seriously way more than we were expecting. George Dussault at Galilee Productions was absolutely amazing and we would recommend him to anyone that is looking to record a demo, full length, whatever. This guy knows his sh*t". - Done By 9
"We are super pumped about the new stuff and, cant wait to rock soon. We would like to thank George Dussault at Galilee Studios for helping us out so much with the new tracks." - Aston
"...A Celebration of Sound...Pick up a copy. It's a plain ol' blast..." - Bob Gulla, the Providence Phoenix
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"Hang on to your hat, is all I can say..." "Recorded by all-around idea guy/ major talent George Dussault, the record presents a number of surprises..." - Bob Gulla, the Providence Phoenix
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...One of the outstanding aspects of the album is the sound and overall production. All indie records should sound this full and rich. Its a real treat in headphones, too! - Krakov Reviewers
George Dussault hooks Clokworx emcee AmsUno up with a beat that just rolls along. Dussault drops a cut similar to the production of Celph-Titled, so if you're into that steez, than cop this. The RI emcee drops sarcastic rhymes that not only make you think, but also bump to move heads. "Brimstone & Fire" is nice, so roll your pennies and buy this.
undergroundhiphop.com
Rhode Island based duo Clokworx still remains as one of the most interesting up and coming acts of the indie hip-hop movement. And after blessing us with goodies (and near-classics) like the 1999 "Mental Flux" wax debut, Clokworx also delivered last year's dope "Preservatives" single on Cybertek which also held the favorite "Robots". Now it's time for one half of the duo, emcee Ams Uno, to attack on his own. We're getting "Your Brain On Ams" b/w "Brimstone & Fire" on a nice piece of 7" plastic, out on Commonwealth. And these gems are two pure bangers, really. Ams' own beat delivered in the title cut hear, is nothing put pure heat. Beat is standing out on its own (spiced with cuts from DJ Orator) but Ams Uno is also remarkable as a unique lyricist by all means. He's showing that on this wax (again). B-side selection "Brimstone & Fire" is a more of a straight laced banger by George Dussault. And while we're again getting the top notch beats we want, this track is another example of how dope Ams Uno really is when he's rollin with full throttle on the mic. Really dope, and we are just LOVING this record. For its upright honesty, and for its strict, basic hip-hop sound. Ams Uno will drop a full length somewhere this summer, but make sure you bang this record through-out the entire spring season. It IS that good.
Boom-bap.com
"Special thanks to George Dussault, the producer/engineer, of Galilee Productions who made it possible for us to make this cd. Thanks." - Narcotic Bob
"George was not just an engineer or producer on our project. Rather, he was the fifth member of the band, someone who brought new ideas to the table. These ideas were fresh, new, and great suggestions that made our album more dynamic. We wouldn't choose another person to work with."
"George's ear for music is unparalleled. He knows what sounds right, and how to improve musical choices. He strives to make everything sound the best as possible and succeeds." - Acronym
"This is Ryan from the band Taunt The Jester. We recorded the "Out of the Box" e.p. with George all in one day, and it was incredible experience. The atmosphere was just simply something that made us as a band believe this is what its all about. We now have a substantial following thanks to the demo and we just wanna thank George and inform every band to go to George for the best quality and to learn about music industry in general."
