Simon Henderson
Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time…Cassini’s Division Preview
Posted on August 17, 2010
Cassini's @ MTV show Kolkata
Hi everybody!
Just a quick blog to let you know that Cassini’s Division (see http://simonhenderson.com/tag/cassinis-division/) my very cool band in India will be releasing their debut album “Ringside View” at the end of September!
There are plans for a SE Asian tour towards the end of the year followed my some shows in the UK and then the USA.
The interest in the band is growing more and more and I am sure the fanbase will increase internationally with this album. (see Rolling Stone article)
I have just completed edits of 1 minute versions so you can go check out the album at http://www.cassinisdivision.com/
Mon
btw…
I just made this video below, it is just some random footage of my journey making this album and something to look at while listening to the album sampler!
enjoy
It’s a long way home!
Posted on May 25, 2010India day 7 and finally getting into the swing of things!
All the illness has all but gone and I am back in the captains seat, steering this enormous ship known as Cassinis’ Division.
We put 2 songs down today and as we approach each new song, I am filled with excitement as to the huge potential of this band. Each song tells a very unique story, yet this is not a bunch of hippies making a concept album, these are a group of well educated, very well read, cool guys. They are polite and a pleasure to work with!
I can’t wait to play a part in unleashing this to the rest of the world.
Checkout my journey home each night (see video) and I will start putting some of this excellent music up, very soon!
Si xx
India day 4
Posted on May 20, 2010
It’s your globetrotting super rock producer here checking in once again! With a serious case of the trotts (no joke!!). I did the stupedist thing, I should know better having lived in a hot country for more than 10 years, that it is a bad idea to lay in bed with the AC on and a huge ceiling fan blowing on your body! So I got ill, VERY ill (berk) but today I am feeling better so I am updating you reader!
The recording with Cassinis’ Division is going really well we are averaging a song a day recording it really old school style, with the band set up live, focusing on the drums and bass takes mainley, and doing guide vocals and guitars.
The studio is in the HMV complex when the old pressing plant is still located. This place was opened in 1921 and was the second record pressing plant for EMI in the world, and all the equipment is still here. There is a huge soundcraft desk in the control room that is no longer working so is utilised as a table these days. We are using an O2R and Nuendo 4 on Mac, so the job is sounding fine.
More news later, off to sit on the loo…AGAIN 
Welcome to Kolkata Sir!
Posted on May 18, 2010So I have arrived back in Kolkata (Calcutta) but the last time I was here it must have been winter. Right now it is almost 40 degrees in the shade and 98 percent humidity. I got off the plane and thought I was standing too close to the jet engines, but it only got hotter as I moved further away!
The flight was ok with Air India, although I had to wait in Delhi for about three hours, and strangely enough, I was not allowed to carry any Indian money with me, so it became complicated trying to buy a Tuna sub, but I managed it in the end, much to the contentment of a grumbling tummy!
The band met me at the airport and we headed off to the apartment the record company, Saregama (HMV) are renting for my stay. As always the journey was interesting with cars honking each other and honking for the sake of it, and the kamikaze pedestrians I remember so well.
So here I am at 6 am Indian time and its around 2 am back in London, my brain is somewhere in between, but the bottle of whiskey I kaned with the band is easing in the jet lag nicely! I am at war with my old friends the mosquitos! It’s been a year and a half since we last did battle so I am now going out to buy some essentials, shorts, coffie and all the mossy pariphinalia I can find! Simon, hot, no…. fucking hot!