Great Wide Open

Right after I started working at Yaletown Sound, I was fortunate enough to get invited to work on the GWO project. Chris Aiken and I had just finished mixing the Power Onions at Yaletown, Mike Norman had lent me a bunch of gear that I was using at Hybrid Studios to produce a few demos for bands and Lee Worden was inducted into the GWO hall of fame as a bassist, vocalist and play-any-damn-instrument-that-he-can-get-his-hands-on type of guy.

It started with just engineering but eventually led to co-producing , mixing and mastering the CD. I still have fond memories of working on these songs with Mike, Chris, Lee and the rest of the boys at Yaletown Sound and Hybrid Studios. I remember we worked damn hard on a bunch of more songs, but only these 4 made the cut for the debut Ep.

What You See Is What You Get
Here I Am (Falling In Love)
Three Words Away
Cycle of Life

“Yanni was a pleasure to work with during our time together at EA. He was reliable, consistent and above all, enthusiastic about his craft. He often needed to straddle more than one project at a time, which required him to not only deliver top quality sfx, speech and music for our games, but to also stay on top of his schedule and proactively escalate if anything threatened a deadline. He was able to do this with diplomacy and maintain great relationships with his customers. Yanni earned a well deserved promotion during the time we worked together and I would happily recommend him as a Sound Artist to any game development team.” Liesl Glover, Development Director
Electronic Arts