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Adrian Olsen '04, performer and record producer

Olsen, who has toured nationally with his band Avers, now focuses on producing records for other artists. 
We recently caught up with Adrian Olsen ’04 who runs Montrose Recording Studio in Richmond. After graduating from St. Christopher’s, Adrian attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts where he studied music production and engineering as well as music business. Since leaving Berklee, Adrian’s life has been about music.
 
You may have heard of his band Avers, that has toured throughout the country in support of their two studio albums (Empty Light, 2014 and Omega/Whatever, 2016).  Currently, however, Adrian’s main focus is on recording and producing other people’s music, splitting time between two Richmond studios.
 
Over the past couple of years, he’s worked on records with Natalie Prass (label: ATO Records), Cocoon (Universal), Foxygen, (Jagjaguar), Dream Syndicate (ANTI-), The Ar-Kaics (Daptone), Matthew E. White (Glassnote/Domino), among many other local bands and labels.
 
Most recently, Adrian has been hired as chief engineer at Spacebomb Records, a recording studio founded by singer/songwriter Matthew E. White in 2010. “We’re working together to build a new facility that I’ll work out of when I’m not at Montrose,” says Adrian.
 
For a taste of music Adrian has produced recently, check out the album “Rare Feeling" by the artist Twain
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