About

No other studio in town offers as wide a range of services as Polytonal Productions. For the first time, you can go to a single business with mere song fragments and leave with fully-packaged physical copies of your music shrink-wrapped and ready to sell.

Before, a solo artist would have to hire a backing band of multiple musicians and perhaps even a composer or producer to arrange music for them. Then, the album would be recorded and mixed by at least one engineer and intern if not more. Next, their music would be sent elsewhere to a separate mastering engineer. By the time the layout is designed and the album is physically manufactured, they have had to not only pay an entire team of individuals, but also successfully convey the various aesthetic concepts of their artistic project to multiple people.

At Polytonal Productions, your entire project is handled by a single fellow musician who is competent and experienced with the entire album-making process start to finish. This way, you only have to get your idea across to one person and end up saving a good deal of money in the process.

This also proves helpful for newly formed bands who have yet to fill out an entire line-up but want to go ahead and perform and/or record before the perfect long-term bandmate comes along. In fact, it often expedites their arrival.

Founder, Chaetan Newell is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, audio/mastering engineer, producer, and graphic designer who is ready to bring passion and hard work to your project you are unlikely to find anywhere else. Beginning his musical journey in 1987, he has found a unique voice on guitar (acoustic, classical, electric, lap steel), bass (acoustic, electric, upright), percussion (bongos, drum kit, shaker, tambourine, teponaztli, and much more), keyboard (analog synth, digital keyboard with hundreds of realistic patches), banjo, ukulele, cello, and viola, all of which are available at the studio and ready to play on your next album. He has also been recording since 1998.

In 2009, Newell obtained a degree in Professional Music from Berklee College of Music, the world's number one contemporary music school after receiving an audition-based scholarship. This combined with his education from many years of private lessons on various instruments, music camps, and a number of symphony orchestras is just the tip of the iceberg as he also has a wealth of experience working with artists from groups such as The North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, Herbie Hancock and the Rockit Band, Sun Ra Arkestra, My Bloody Valentine, The Flaming Lips, Arcade Fire, Bright Eyes, Tortoise, Don Caballero, Pere Ubu, Mercury Rev, Helium, Swervedriver, Pele, US Maple, Thalia Zedek, Victory at Sea, Dumptruck, Bang Camaro, Head of Femur, Pram, Bellafea, Margot and the Nuclear So and So's, and even legendary Motown group The Chairmen of the Board.

Every project is special to him, and yours will be no exception. Whether it's jazz or metal, folk or hip-hop, your music is sacred here. Click "BOOKING / CONTACT" to get in touch with him today!