Simon Henderson
Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time…Mastering Cassini’s Division
Posted on July 17, 2010
Ahhh! The finish line is in sight, my favourite feeling at the end of a great project.
I am in Islington, London with my good friend Savas, playing “Ringside View” at a serious volume on big boy monitors and mastering the Cassini’s Division masterpiece!
From Monday (when I deliver the album to the label) Cassini’s proper recordings (meaning produced) will be “Out there”!! This is a “Warts and all” recording, as you know me by now, I love REAL sounds, so when you can hear the buzzy amp noise and the snoring sound of Ludo catching his 40 winks at the back of the studio floor, I keep it all in 
This is NOT music from a box!
Ladies and Gentlemen…I PROUDLY present “Ringside View” by the one and only CASSIN’IS DIVISION
Love it people, enjoy it…listen to it! Hey boys…JAI DADA
btw, here is us drunk in my guest house in Kolkata near the end of the recording (Raul should really do this in the middle of the Cassini’s set…don’t u think?)
On the home straight!
Posted on June 02, 2010
Lunch Habit
The recording in Calcutta with Cassini’s Division is almost at an end, and as usual there is a new sense of urgency to get everything finished, more importantly because we are a 12 hour flight away from each other and not just up the road!
The recording has been very fruitful and I believe the Cassini’s existing fans will be pleasantly surprised.
I kept the recording as live as possible, and implemented the techniques I have come to be known for such as creative use of mics and spaces combined with amps (though not a full selection) as opposed to music from a box of chips and resistors. Snobby! I know! But surely real is better, in anything you care to mention.
Ideally, it would have been great to have a Vox Ac30, a Marshall 4×12 etc at hand, but you work with what you have got! What we did have is a great studio space and a nice selection of all the usual mics, and, most importantly, creative ideas and the will to use them!
I will be mixing in London before unleashing this monster on the world! So for now, here are some nice pictures.
Si xx
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Rumble guitar
The studio floor
Recording Today
Posted on May 26, 2010For those of you who don’t know what I am doing in Kolkata (Calcutta) India, here is a brief update.
A couple of years ago I was music production manager for a TV show called SUTASI, and on my journey at that time I came across Cassinis’ Division. My boss, Colleen Zulian had seen them while checking out some hot tips in India with the legendary Simon Napier Bell. Colleen sent me to Kolkata immediately to do a 4 day recording with the band to record some rough studio versions of their new material.
Fast forward to the present day when I received a phone call from the band telling me they had signed a deal with HMV (Saregama) the biggest label in India and wished for me to return and continue what we started.
Below is the bands performance on Sutasi, and this is the track we will be recording today. We are at the halfway point now and the album is sounding really good. The band are playing a massive MTV show on my last day here and have asked me to join them, so more news later.
Si xx
Please visit the boys website for more info, this band are gonna be HUGE!!
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
Singer Simone
Posted on May 06, 2010
Another amazing show at Fish Fish in Temple Fortune!
This time we had the fantastic Kim Chandler International singer and vocal coach as our guest celebrity judge.
As usual the singers we pretty awesome and we had a really hard time deciding on the winner, and although there was only 1 spot left for the wild-card runner up, we put through another 2 for next weeks show!
One of my favorites didn’t make it through as I was outvoted on this occasion (which tends to happen quite often) was the lovely Simone Alexander.
Simones’ sound reminded me of Joan Armatrading and after hearing her CD of self composed originals, I was quite smitten.
I am not too worried that Simone did not survice the cut this time as the “Sing for your supper” team have decided to get busy will ALL the talented people who we have come across this past 6 weeks.
So watch this space for more news about this!
Until then…checkout my fabulous find
(the video is just a taste! Better to checkout her myspace)
Abuse The Youth
Posted on March 06, 20092009-03-06 13:17:00 
Mick (Abuse the Youth) wrote: Hey Simon. We had our album release launch party last night in the ‘Rock Pub’ Bangkok. We really wished you were there! Looking forward to our next album together. Mick.
Simon: Very cool! Yes, I wish I could have been there with you too. Best of British luck with the album, hopefully you guys can get over here to play some shows, but I’d wait till the summer if I were you!
Everybody! listen to the CD sampler here www.myspace.com/abusetheyouth