Our Label Core Principles
About Us
Analog Tone Factory is a new label that records exclusively to analog tape. We seek to record great musicians and make awesome sounding records using the best of the technologies of yesterday and today alike. Our LPs and R2R tapes are 100% analog.
Our records are available on AAA 180g vinyl, R2R tape (quarter inch 15 ips IEC/CCIR) and in digital formats.
The first record on Analog Tone Factory is Heart by the Jerome Sabbagh Trio, with Joe Martin and legendary drummer Al Foster. The album will be released on August 30, 2024.
Our Story
Analog Tone Factory was founded by saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh, and pianist and recording engineer Pete Rende. It grew out of their shared desire to record music in a way that would draw listeners in, and to go back to the way records used to be made, with fewer manipulations and more directness.
We aim for our records to feel and sound closer to live music. We record the band all in the same room. We use very high end equipment, including a custom restored half inch tube Ampex 351 tape recorder, and vintage Neve and Altec consoles.
The advent of streaming has made it very difficult to record great sounding albums in a sustainable way, especially for music that isn’t mass market. We hope that, at a time when recorded music can feel disposable, we can still record great music the best way we know how, and foster a community of artists and listeners that will value it. We hope that audiophiles and regular listeners alike will band together to support the creation of new music, all analog, available on vinyl and tape, as well as digital formats.
Jerome Sabbagh
Saxophonist and composer Jerome Sabbagh was born in Paris in 1973 and has been living in Brooklyn since 1995. A prolific forward-thinking composer, as well as a musician with a deep connection to the well of the jazz tradition, he has recorded ten albums as a leader.
Jerome Sabbagh’s latest recording is Vintage, an album of original compositions and standards which features legendary pianist and NEA jazz master Kenny Barron in intimate duets, as well as in a quartet setting with Joe Martin and Johnathan Blake. Jeff Wilson, writing for The Absolute Sound, found that it was "one of the best jazz albums of 2023” and Keith Hoffman called it "an important album by four masters of this American art form”.
Jerome Sabbagh also co-leads the Jerome Sabbagh/Greg Tuohey Group, which recorded No Filter with Joe Martin on bass and Kush Abadey on drums.
Jerome Sabbagh has become sought after as a producer, having overseen the vinyl versions of Matt Slocum’s With Love and Sadness and Michael Weiss’ Soul Journey, as well as worked on several other releases, including the Dan Tepfer/Lee Konitz duet album Decade, and Dan Tepfer’s Eleven Cages.
Jerome Sabbagh is a D’Addario Woodwinds artist and is also endorsed by Audeze.
Pete Rende
Acclaimed pianist and engineer Pete Rende has lived and worked out of New York since 1998. Rende sharpened his teeth after graduating from Berklee College of Music as a sideman for the likes of Chris Cheek and Bill McHenry, as well as singer/songwriters Rebecca Martin, Chiara Civello and Jen Chapin.
He has toured, recorded and played with groups led by Kurt Rosenwinkel, Chris Cheek, Bill McHenry, Dave Douglas, Aaron Parks, Mark Turner, Guillermo Klein, Thomas Morgan, Ted Poor, Jeff Ballard, Marlon Browden, Ben Monder, Alan Hampton, and Lage Lund. Notable recordings include Ben Monder’s Amorphae for ECM Records, with drum legends Paul Motian and Andrew Cyrille.
Praise for his music includes the New York Times, who stated Rende has "a gift for establishing mood and atmosphere”.
As a producer, mix and recording engineer, Pete Rende has worked with some of the top artists on today’s jazz scene, including Joshua Redman, Ethan Iverson, Jeff Ballard, Rebecca Martin, Bill McHenry, Reid Anderson, John Ellis, Alan Hampton and Josh Mease. Notable albums engineered by Pete Rende include five records for The Bad Plus, Live at Smalls by Ethan Iverson, Ben Street and the legendary Albert “Tootie” Heath, Time’s Tales by Jeff Ballard and Continuum by David Virelles.
Jerome Sabbagh and Pete Rende have previously collaborated on Sabbagh’s albums I Will Follow You, Plugged In, Vintage and Heart, as well as the custom backing tracks recorded for darTZeel and Stenheim for the 2022 High End Munich show.
Our Label Core Principles
About Us
Analog Tone Factory is a new label that records exclusively to analog tape. We seek to record great musicians and make awesome sounding records using the best of the technologies of yesterday and today alike. Our LPs and R2R tapes are 100% analog.
Our records are available on AAA 180g vinyl, R2R tape (quarter inch 15 ips IEC/CCIR) and in digital formats.
The first record on Analog Tone Factory is Heart by the Jerome Sabbagh Trio, with Joe Martin and legendary drummer Al Foster. The album will be released on August 30, 2024.
Our Story
Analog Tone Factory was founded by saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh, and pianist and recording engineer Pete Rende. It grew out of their shared desire to record music in a way that would draw listeners in, and to go back to the way records used to be made, with fewer manipulations and more directness.
We aim for our records to feel and sound closer to live music. We record the band all in the same room. We use very high end equipment, including a custom restored half inch tube Ampex 351 tape recorder, and vintage Neve and Altec consoles.
The advent of streaming has made it very difficult to record great sounding albums in a sustainable way, especially for music that isn’t mass market. We hope that, at a time when recorded music can feel disposable, we can still record great music the best way we know how, and foster a community of artists and listeners that will value it. We hope that audiophiles and regular listeners alike will band together to support the creation of new music, all analog, available on vinyl and tape, as well as digital formats.
Jerome Sabbagh
Saxophonist and composer Jerome Sabbagh was born in Paris in 1973 and has been living in Brooklyn since 1995. A prolific forward-thinking composer, as well as a musician with a deep connection to the well of the jazz tradition, he has recorded ten albums as a leader.
Jerome Sabbagh’s latest recording is Vintage, an album of original compositions and standards which features legendary pianist and NEA jazz master Kenny Barron in intimate duets, as well as in a quartet setting with Joe Martin and Johnathan Blake. Jeff Wilson, writing for The Absolute Sound, found that it was "one of the best jazz albums of 2023” and Keith Hoffman called it "an important album by four masters of this American art form”.
Jerome Sabbagh also co-leads the Jerome Sabbagh/Greg Tuohey Group, which recorded No Filter with Joe Martin on bass and Kush Abadey on drums.
Jerome Sabbagh has become sought after as a producer, having overseen the vinyl versions of Matt Slocum’s With Love and Sadness and Michael Weiss’ Soul Journey, as well as worked on several other releases, including the Dan Tepfer/Lee Konitz duet album Decade, and Dan Tepfer’s Eleven Cages.
Jerome Sabbagh is a D’Addario Woodwinds artist and is also endorsed by Audeze.
Pete Rende
Acclaimed pianist and engineer Pete Rende has lived and worked out of New York since 1998. Rende sharpened his teeth after graduating from Berklee College of Music as a sideman for the likes of Chris Cheek and Bill McHenry, as well as singer/songwriters Rebecca Martin, Chiara Civello and Jen Chapin.
He has toured, recorded and played with groups led by Kurt Rosenwinkel, Chris Cheek, Bill McHenry, Dave Douglas, Aaron Parks, Mark Turner, Guillermo Klein, Thomas Morgan, Ted Poor, Jeff Ballard, Marlon Browden, Ben Monder, Alan Hampton, and Lage Lund. Notable recordings include Ben Monder’s Amorphae for ECM Records, with drum legends Paul Motian and Andrew Cyrille.
Praise for his music includes the New York Times, who stated Rende has "a gift for establishing mood and atmosphere”.
As a producer, mix and recording engineer, Pete Rende has worked with some of the top artists on today’s jazz scene, including Joshua Redman, Ethan Iverson, Jeff Ballard, Rebecca Martin, Bill McHenry, Reid Anderson, John Ellis, Alan Hampton and Josh Mease. Notable albums engineered by Pete Rende include five records for The Bad Plus, Live at Smalls by Ethan Iverson, Ben Street and the legendary Albert “Tootie” Heath, Time’s Tales by Jeff Ballard and Continuum by David Virelles.
Jerome Sabbagh and Pete Rende have previously collaborated on Sabbagh’s albums I Will Follow You, Plugged In, Vintage and Heart, as well as the custom backing tracks recorded for darTZeel and Stenheim for the 2022 High End Munich show.