Sometimes the recording venue becomes a part of the album's mythology.
The musicians chose a portentous site for their meeting: Martin Niemöller preached at the Jesus Christus Kirche during the Nazi era, and the Philharmonic has long used the church as a recording venue.
Certainly, wandering into the labyrinthine, crumbling depths of London's Somerset House, it is the last place you would expect one of the UK's most acclaimed and enigmatic artists to pick as her recording venue of choice.
Paul Strang writes: In the 1970s, a redundant church in Trinity Church Square, Southwark, south London, was converted into Henry Wood Hall, a rehearsal and recording venue for London's professional orchestras, ensembles and other musicians.
But then we were in the cavernous, shiny-floored studio that, for several weeks before, had been the recording venue for the BBC2 programme The Apprentice – You're Fired.
While the band was setting up their equipment at Foel Studio in mid-Wales - a recording venue for bands as diverse as the Stranglers, Scritti Politti and Klaxons - Parsons was monitoring proceedings from Santa Barbara via tablet computer video link, advising on microphone positions, instrument choices and so on.
First of all OMW is a not-for-profit music and recording venue.
In the fifties and sixties, because of its killer acoustics, the hall became a recording venue where Elvis Presley, Harry Belafonte, and Frank Sinatra all laid down tracks.
Paisley Park, in the Minneapolis suburb of Chanhassen, already has a large soundstage, two recording studios and the inner sanctum where he lived — the basics for operating as a museum, performance space and recording venue.
In the diagram for each of the rooms, the functions normally carried out for CHW related activities were recorded (recruitment venue, training venue, refresher training venue, supervisor's office and store rooms for training materials and health commodities).
