Girls Twiddling Knobs

EP#81: Making Production Part Of Your Songwriting Process w/ Orla Gartland

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Send us Fan Mail Orla Gartland’s career started out as a DIY artist on Youtube and has since seen her music rise in success and synced on both the hit TV shows Normal People and Heart Stopper. Inside this episode, she shares why recording and production has become integral to her creative process, especially in the creation of her debut album, Woman On The Internet. Over the last 5-10 years, recording and production gear has become affordable and intuitive enough that many musicians and song...

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