Range Records is an independent record label based in Philadelphia, PA. We are committed to making unique, concept-driven records that draw on the special history and community of musicians that call our city home. Based on our distribution relationship with UFO, Rykodisc and ultimately the Warner Music Group we are capable of releasing and marketing music on a global basis and offer all our artists and projects the world class visibility they need to compete in today's environment. Whether it be through the traditional avenues of press and radio or viral marketing strategies and music websites, Range is continually refining our recipe for making great music and identifying the people that will love it.
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STAFF:
Aaron Levinson – A&R Director
Marc Eimer - General Manager
Brian Ritrovato - Chief Engineer
Joe Mass - Musical Director
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Rich Myers – CEO
Dan Leider – COO
Marc Shames – CFO
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS:
Phil Nicolo
Brian Bricklin
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STAFF:
Aaron Levinson – A&R Director
Aaron Levinson is a veteran record industry figure and a Grammy-winning producer with a background as a musician/composer. He has produced and/or released 20 albums and co-composed and produced the score for the Cinemax documentary "How Do You Spell Murder?" directed by Oscar-winning directors Alan and Susan Raymond. Aaron was the co-founder of the RykoLatino imprint in 1997 which has been universally recognized for igniting the "Salsa Dura" renaissance in America. He has also produced a number of albums for the trend-setting Ropeadope label. This includes the Philadelphia Experiment that went to number 3 on the Billboard Jazz Charts. In 2000, Aaron founded and produced the Spanish Harlem Orchestra which along with special guest Ruben Blades, went on to capture the Grammy for Best Salsa Album in 2004 for the album Across 110th Street on the Universal-distributed Libertad label.
Levinson is an ASCAP-affiliated songwriter and publisher and has an international agreement with Evergreen Music for his musical compositions in 43 countries around the world. He is a former governor of the Philadelphia chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Levinson is currently the A&R Director for Range Records and is the owner of O(h)M Studios, a state-of-the-art digital/analog recording facility based in the Philadelphia metropolitan region.
Marc Eimer - General Manager
Marc Eimer holds a B.S. degree in Marketing from the University of Maryland. Marc has
been marketing music and developing artists for the past eight years, dealing
with promotions, sales, distribution, concert booking, graphic design and music
production. In addition, he has managed, composed songs, performed with, recorded
with, and promoted his own bands throughout Pennsylvania and Maryland. Marc
has had 17 years of musical training with the guitar, piano, saxophone, and bass.
Brian Ritrovato - Chief Engineer
Brian Ritrovato is a graduate of the Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences under the instruction of Tony Nunez and Kevin Becka, who is the Technical Director for Mix Magazine. Brian is a certified Digidesign Pro Tools recording engineer and has been playing music for over ten years focusing on drums, guitar, vocals, and digital programming. He has engineered or worked on several dozen records for local, regional, national, and international artists spanning all genres. In addition, he has worked with and assisted several reputable engineers and producers, some of which have won Grammy awards and other prestigious honors. This includes Jon Altschiller (Lenny Kravitz, John Mayer, Phish), Phil Nicolo (The Police, Aerosmith, James Taylor), Aaron Levinson (Spanish Harlem Orchestra, The Philadelphia Experiment), Dave Sinko (Yo Yo Ma, Bela Fleck) and Brian Bricklin (Martin’s Dam, Bricklin).
Joe Mass - Musical Director
Joe Mass' colorful musical history of recent past includes serving as musical director for Mike Sembello, Essra Mowhawk and Robert Hazard. As a producer, Joe won the John Lennon songwriting competition with David Fox. In 2005, Joe recorded with producer and Grammy Award-winner Dan Sembello on the "Revolution of the Spirit" album. Other musicians involved with the Revolution of the Spirit album include Ringo Starr, Vinnie Colaiuta, Greg Phillinganes, Jimmy Haslip and Nathan Watts. Beyond this, Joe has appeared on television with Rod Morganstern, Eric Bazillian and the Dixie Dregs. Joe is also a performer at the NAMM show for D'Andrea products.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Rich Myers – CEO
Rich Myers has a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is a lawyer by trade. He spent his first 8-1/2 years of practice as an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia, as he calls it, being a "professional good guy." Since leaving the DA's office, he has concentrated on civil practice. Rich is also a musician, who recently played in the rock band "Living Proof." He thinks that artists, record labels and investors ought to make money the same way, upon success.
Dan Leider – COO
Dan Leider holds a B.S degree in Business Administration from Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, where he majored in Marketing. He co-founded Communicate-Direct, which was a full service music management and direct mail promotions company. In addition to the many nightclubs and bands that Dan represented, one band named Jellyroll developed into one of the most popular local "party bands" of the 1980s. Bands that he has managed have opened for Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, Savoy Brown, Roomful of Blues, The Night Hawks and many others. Dan has performed with members of the original Blues Brothers Band from Saturday Night Live, as well as many other well-known artists. He also played in the rock band "Living Proof."
Marc Shames – CFO
A 1974 graduate of Drexel's School of Business Administration with a degree in Accounting, Marc Shames has 30 years experience in public accounting, including eight years as a principal at Goldberg, Weinstein and Co Inc. in Newtown Square, PA. It was only three years ago that Marc began applying his expertise in finance and accounting within the music industry.
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ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS:
Phil Nicolo
Phil Nicolo received a Bachelor of Science from Temple University in 1977. He and his brother Joe began their music careers as teenagers, fixing speakers at a nearby drive-in theater. In 1980, they founded Studio 4, a recording studio in Philadelphia. Individually and together as the Butcher Bros. (a reference to their fathers trade), they quickly established themselves as a force in all genres of music production, from rock to R&B, mainstream to cutting edge. Mr. Nicolo has attained the most coveted form of success in the music business: he has succeeded in every music genre he has tackled. His early rock credits include the Hooters, Nighthawks and Willie Nile. At the same time, he was creating music with Kriss Kross, Teddy Pendergrass and Taj Mahal. Mixes of Billy Joel's River of Dreams, the Rolling Stone's Love Is Strong, Aerosmith's Falling In Love and James Taylor's A Little More Time are all Mr. Nicolo's work. He co-produced and mixed Sting's When We Danced and re-mixed Message In A Bottle for the Police. Other credits include John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Amy Grant, Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), Luscious Jackson, Urge Overkill, the Pretenders, Jon Bon Jovi, and Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam.
In 1989, Ruffhouse Records was launched out of Studio 4 operations, and over the next ten years it moved more than 100 million units through Sony distribution. Responsible for the careers of Lauryn Hill, the Fugees, Cypress Hill, Kriss Kross and Wyclef Jean, Ruffhouse alone accounted for 12 of Columbia Records 39 Grammy nominations in 1997. In 1993 , Mr. Nicolo founded Master Voice, a mastering lab based in Conshohocken, PA. In 1994 He joined producer Rick Chertoff and Polygram Records. Rick's label Blue Gorilla had great success with Joan Osborn.
While maintaining a busy stable of multi-platinum artists, Mr. Nicolo has continued to work with cutting edge talent. He produced the critically acclaimed Train EP for Aware/Columbia. Phil has produced the Mighty, Mighty Bosstones, Dishwalla, Fig Dish and Cibo Matto, a veritable who's who of cutting edge rock. His hard rock credits include Life of Agony, Dog Eat Dog, Urge Overkill and Anthrax. He mixed the Butthole Surfers Pepper, the Cults Gone/Coming Down and produced the Fugees Live Bootleg EP. Projects include mixes for John Lennon & Yoko Ono, remixes and live recordings with Depeche Mode, mixes for the band New Order, an EP for Columbia artist Pete Yorn, and a live recording of The Moby Area One tour featuring: Moby, Incubis, Nelly Furtado, Outkast and The Roots. A recient thrill was working with Bob Dylan on a track for the "North Country" film soundtrack, produced at his Studio 4 facility in Conshohocken.
Phil is the chair of the P&E wing of the Philadelphia chapter of NARAS (the Grammy people) and is active in the community with various NARAS events. He has been nominated for 4 Grammy awards, and won last Feb for mixing and mastering The Spanish Harlem Orchestra. He is the proud recipient of the 2003 Lew Klein Alumni in the Media Award, placing him in the Temple University Communication Hall of Fame.
Brian Bricklin
Brian Bricklin is one of Philadelphia's most highly accomplished recording artists and record producers. Brian has been the director of Music Training Center's Rock 101, Rock Band Camp, and Recording Studio programs since 2002.
Brian is a native of the Main Line. In the 1980's he co-founded the band Bricklin along with his brother Scott. In 1986, Brian and Scott were signed to A&M records, and more recently to Hybrid/Sire Records with their group, Martin's Dam. Their song “Fear of Flying” from the Hybrid/Sire debut “Sky Above", received airplay on radio stations across the country, and is featured in the motion picture, “The Shrink is In,” featuring Courtney Cox and David Arquette. Another song from that album, Only God Knows is featured in the Alexander Payne/MTV/Paramount movie, starring Reese Witherspoon and Mathew Broderick.
Brian has performed in venues including New York's Madison Square Garden, Philadelphia's Spectrum and Tower Theatre as well as the 4th of July Celebration on JFK Parkway. He has songs featured in many popular, feature films, featuring "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" (Keanu Reeves), and “Coming Soon” (Mia Farrow and Ryan O’Neal).
Brian's production and engineering credits include major label releases on A&M, Columbia, RCA, PolyGram, Hybrid/Sire, Bingo Records, and Ruffhouse. You may also have heard Brian's music on the tube, as his many television credits include: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, ESPN, and others. Brian has worked side by side with two-time Grammy winner Neil Dorfsman (Sting, Paul McCartney, Dire Straits), Phil Nicolo (Moby, Sean Lennon, Urge Overkill), and Kevin Killen (U2, Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel).
Since 2002, Brian has recorded, mixed and mastered songs and albums for over 150 high school and college rock bands, children’s music albums and label recording artists including the Bingo Hits for Kids series, Ben Arnold, Jim Boggia, Easter, Scott Bricklin, Modern Bliss, Hymns of the Wicked, 4-Sided Circle, Phyllis Heitjan, Dumbstruck, The Trumans, Original Sinz, Crux, Firetruck, and others.
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