Eric Lilavois
Eric Lilavois is an American Record Producer, Engineer, Musician, Singer, and Songwriter born April 7, 1979.
Lilavois produces a wide variety of MusicAL acts and styles of music and has earned substantial engineering, mixing and mastering credits. Additional music credits on various records have included Vocals, Backing Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Classical Guitar, Piano, Ebow, Banjo, Accordion, Percussion, Drums, Organ, Harmonica, Keyboards, Typewriter, and more.
Some of the artists Lilavois has produced include Risers, Empire Theatre, Saint Motel, Erin Rametta, The Ventriloquists, Phil Yates, and more.
Lilavois also owns Crown City Studios, a 3700 sq. ft recording Studio in Pasadena, CA.
Lilavois’ self produced debut solo record “The Only Way” will be released digitally worldwide on January 11, 2011 and features a long list of seasoned musicians, including Matt North on Drums (Maria McKee, Jesse DeNatale, Viktor Krauss), Amy Farris on Violin/Viola/Cello (Dave Alvin and The Guilty Women, Exene Cervenka) Joel Martin on Pedal Steel (Zack Hexum, Big Believers) Danny T. Levin on Trumpet, Trombone, Flugelhorn, Euphonium, Cornet, and Alto Horn, (Lenka, Rilo Kiley, Built To Spill, The Ventriloquists) David Moyer on Baritone Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, and flute (Mayer Hawthorne, Sara Bareilles, Bright Eyes, The Ventriloquists), Matt Herman on Bass (Empire Theatre, Acute, Days In Between), Ryen Slegr on Rhodes and Guitar (Ozma), Benjamin Holman Richards III Guitar (Porcelain), Jeff Glassberg and Ian Souter on backing vocals (The Ventriloquists). The limited edition of the album is accompanied by an EP of raw demos recorded in Lilavois' Seattle apartment and is titled “A Night Harvest.”
In the wake of the January 2010 Haiti earthquake disaster, Lilavois penned the song “Ayiti Cherie Memories” and recorded and released it as a digital only single on itunes worldwide to benefit Unicef, through his creative company “Revolution Road.” Though Lilavois was born in the United States, both of his parents are Haitian.
Lilavois is also the front man of the Los Angeles based Rock Band “The Days In Between” which toured the Northwest and Southwest United States extensively between 2004–2006, sold thousands of independently released records, and in January 2010 began working on a small amount of new material after nearly a three year hiatus. Plans are in the works to release a large amount of the bands back catalog and previously unreleased recordings in 2011. Lilavois also produced nearly all of the “Days In Between” recordings from 2005 on.