![]() ![]() Instead I just try and present music in the most vital, true way, and Michael liked that about my approach. Things date well when you try not to follow that stuff. ![]() Following the fickle trends of fashion, whether in clothing, music, or whatever, has never really interested me. I’ve never gone for gimmicky sounds that are going to be dated in two years from now. “According to Michael, the things I do as a record producer pay homage to the classics, but they also are fresh and contemporary, without being gimmicky. He acknowledged it’s potentially a dangerous concoction, because it’s easy to be goofy and ridiculous when you have modern choreography and pop songs in a movie set in 1850. It had to look like a period piece, yet they also wanted it to be fresh. I believe I got on his radar because he was a fan of my work, and he felt that what I did musically corresponded with the visual aesthetic he was pursuing with the movie, which was to make a modern contemporary movie about events that happened in the mid-1800s. “In the middle of 2016,” says Wells, talking from his Rocket Carousel Studio in Los Angeles, “I had a meeting with film director Michael Gracey, here in my control room. ![]() The experience would force him to completely change a production approach developed over decades, and left his cherished collection of vintage outboard gathering dust. However, until he began work on the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for The Greatest Showman, Greg Wells had never worked on a movie before. ![]() He works in a wide range of genres, and plays drums, keyboards, guitar, and several other instruments, with A-list credits including Elton John, Katy Perry, Adele, Timbaland, Pharrell Williams, Celine Dion, Pink, Dua Lipa and many more. Greg Wells has nearly 30 years of top-level experience as a musician, songwriter, engineer, mixer and producer. Greg Wells has worked with everyone who’s anyone in the world of music - but nothing could prepare him for mixing a film soundtrack! Also heavily involved in the musical side of the production was Alex Lacamoire (left), with Greg Wells in this photo from Rocket Carousel. ![]()
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