Here is a Test Pressing radio documentary on Compass Point – the studio in Nassau, Bahamas. I interviewed a number of the key players, took the interviews and cut them up and here you go. Interviewed are Wally Badarou (and his lovely wife), Chris Frantz (Talking Heads / Tom Tom Club), Lynn Goldsmith (Will Powers) and Kendall Stubbs (one of the engineers at Compass Point).
It is by no way a definitive story of the studio, nor the music made there, but hopefully it will give you an impression of how amazing that studio was and an impression of Chris Blackwell – head of Island Records and the man that built and pulled the whole studio together whilst also producing and signing the artists. He had the vision and foresight to pull together the perfect framework of musicians and engineers and producers and I hope you are able to hear this.
