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Freudian Sounds with Riley Bell
In conversation with Daniel Caesar’s Juno-winning recording engineer
By Michael Raine
CM: How did you get brought into Daniel Caesar’s camp
to work on Freudian?
Riley Bell: What ended up happening was [Caesar’s co-producer
and co-manager] Matt Burnett and I met in a song camp that was
at Revolution [Recording in Toronto] and then he brought a project
into Revolution that was an American artist who does more popular
music. Matt was just transitioning from urban music, like beat making,
and I was into pop. So when we started on this one session, we had a
chemistry because my instincts were in line with what he was trying
to get out of the recordings and our skills just complemented each
other really well. So