Welcome to Workbench Recordings: a New York City netlabel specializing in unusual and experimental music. Releases consist of single tracks with text and graphic art, with streaming and download functionality supplied by the Free Music Archive, Bandcamp and Soundcloud.

The site was designed on the Movable Type 5 platform. The header font is Corpa Gothic by Brass Fonts. Workbench Recordings is dedicated to the memory of Alex Dulberg.

ABOUT JAMES BEAUDREAU

I'm a New York City musician and recordist. My primary instrument is the guitar, but I also play bass. And the drums (though I play them quite unconventionally). The first album in my discography is The Billy Nayer Show's 1998 CD The Villian That Love Built, to which I contributed guitar on two tracks. After that, I joined BNS and recorded two more albums with them: Return To Brigadoon (1999) and Goodbye Straplight Sarentino, I Will Miss You (2003) -- as well as the soundtrack to the movie The American Astronaut (2001). We toured the U.S. periodically during those years; I played guitar when we were a quartet and bass when we were a trio.

I released my first album, Java St. Bagatelles, on Workbench in 2006, and my second, Fresh Twigs, in 2008. The third one, Astral Law, was released serially on this website over the course of 2009 and 2010. It was remastered in 2011 for a limited physical release.