Mason Neely

Mason Neely
Mason Neely
Origin	United States
Occupation(s)	Record Producer, Drummer, Arranger, Composer, Sound Engineer
Instruments	Drums, Guitar, Keyboards, Bass, Pedal Steel, Lap Steel, Banjo, Vibraphone
Years active	1997—present

Last updated April 23, 2019

Mason Neely (born April 20, 1979) is an American-born, UK-based record producer, drummer, orchestral arranger and multi-instrumentalist who has produced and arranged for and toured with artists including; Lambchop, Cerys Matthews, Sufjan Stevens, Saint Etienne (band), Diane Birch, Julian Ovenden, Lee Mead, The Revival Hour, Leigh Nash, DM Stith, Gulp, Laura Wright, Martyn Joseph, Louise Dearman, Luke Jackson, Natalie Duncan, Colorama, Paper Aeroplanes, The Gregory Brothers.

Lambchop, originally Posterchild, is an American band from Nashville, Tennessee. Lambchop is loosely associated with the alternative country genre. AllMusic referred to them as "arguably the most consistently brilliant and unique American group to emerge during the 1990s".

Cerys Elizabeth Matthews is a Welsh singer, songwriter, author, and broadcaster. She was a founding member of Welsh rock band Catatonia and a leading figure in the "Cool Cymru" movement of the late 1990s.

Sufjan Stevens is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His debut album A Sun Came was released in 1999 on the Asthmatic Kitty label, which he cofounded with his stepfather. He received wide recognition for his 2005 album Illinois, which hit number one on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart, and for the single "Chicago" from that album. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song and a Grammy Award nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media for "Mystery of Love" from the movie Call Me by Your Name.

He has served as a composer, arranger and musical director for the BBC, RTÉ and S4C networks and scored advertisements for Best Buy, Cisco Systems, Domino's Pizza and Crispin, Porter and Bogusky. As an orchestral arranger, he has done pieces for the BBC and RTÉ Orchestras, the BBC Proms, the London Sinfonietta and the National Orchestra of Wales and the Welsh National Ballet.

In early 2013, he became a regular contributor on Cerys Matthews' Sunday morning BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast.

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He composed the music for S4C series Lan A Lawr and features Beca and Y Streic a fi in early 2015. He has also received two awards from the National Eisteddfod of Wales: the first in recognition of Cerys Matthews' 2007 release Awyren=Aeroplane (which he produced and co-wrote) and the second for his production, mixin and orchestration of Bendith's 2016 self-titled release, which won the Best Welsh Language Album of the year in 2017.

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