Words by Alex Watts Photography by Anne Moffat Tucked down the back of a non-descript parking lot in an industrial area of Moorabbin lies a recording engineer/musician’s dream. A single sign reading ‘Black Pearl’ is the only indication that behind one of these doors — the others presumably leading to factory warehouses of various varieties — stands a world class recording studio. Having worked for thirty years in various studios and his own, much smaller space, Yury Kogan had the studio constructed from scratch as a way to provide a space that is most conducive to making music. “There are certain things that I don’t like about the process, and musicians, a lot of them don’t have decent gear or an idea of what sort of sounds they can get. The other thing is, in any large studio when they come in, it’s scary. It’s very corporate, it’s an unnatural environment, so what I was looking for was a creative home-like environment for musicians, because if you can get them to relax and get them creative then the rest of the stuff is easy and the results are so much better,” Kogan explains. The studio consists of two main recording … Continue reading A HIDDEN PEARL