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The beginning...

Construction on our studio began in 1994, when Vincent Katz saw an opportunity to create a place for independent muscians and poets to record their work with high-end equipement and instruments. Dan Annatt oversaw early construction efforts and put up the walls of what is now our Studio A. Prior to this, our location in Chelsea was an indoor shooting-range. 

Twenty years later...

Vincent’s son Oliver Katz set out to restore the space: it was clear by that point that significant renovations were necessary if the studio was to become fully-operational. Engineers  Finn Gardner-Puschak, Justin Gibble, and Miles Edwards joined the team and, over the course of two years, worked on modernizing the studio’s infrastructure and updating its gear.  

We intended to use the studio to rehearse, jam, and record our own projects, but as time went on we realized this was a place we could share. We became Laurel Road Studios. Carolyn Farhner came on to do our publicity and---as we got busier---became our booking manager. She is also an engineer. 


Anne Waldman recording her album Astral Omens with Fast-Speaking Music

Our name....

Our namesake is a horseshoe-shaped detour through a wooded area in Pennsylvania, just south of Stillwater Lake. It is quiet enough there that its proximity to Manhattan feels impossible or at least incredibly unlikely. 





We love the city, but remote places do a lot for us: we get our best work done when we feel we have the time and space to focus. We thought: wouldn’t it be great if we had a place like this in Manhattan? Wouldn’t we get so much work done?


People

Oliver Katz, Director

Carolyn Fahrner,  Booking Manager | Engineer

Justin Gibble, Studio Manager | Engineer 

Finn Gardner-Puschak, Lead Engineer  

Miles Edwards, Engineer