Hair

Aquarius

When working on a direction for the music of Hair, I spent a lot of time comparing and contrasting the Original Broadway Cast Recording with the New Broadway Cast Recording. I was not listening to arrangement or lyrics, but what the song feels and sounds like. I looked at production techniques and whether it sounds like it came from a certain era. While it is all the same music, it sounds different due to the time it was recorded. The original sounds very warm and “vintage,” emulating the way a lot of the tracks sounded in the 1960s, as they were recorded on analog gear. I decided to blend two production techniques together and having a balance of both warm and clear. The band emulated the sound from the 60s while the vocals kept their clarity from newer recording technology.