Gordon Raphael is an American record producer and musician from Seattle, Washington and New York, currently living in Hebden Bridge (UK), after a 15 years in Berlin.
He has also produced songs for The Cribs, Sarah Maguire, Skin, Mexico's top rock band Fobia, Satellites (from Mallorca), and Soviet Kitsch by Regina Spektor.
This small 1970's analog synthesizer creates an infinite pallet of evocative, intense outer space noises as well as a barrage of bass which he uses on many of his own and other artist's recordings.
Whilst in the Pacific Northwest, Raphael was introduced to The Tempers, a "wild-electronic band of brother and twin sisters" and was thrilled to record 6 interstellar electronic rock songs with them.
In April 2014, Raphael went to Mexico City and recorded a six-song EP with the up-and-coming band Sol Flamingo while simultaneously filming a small documentary on "the making" of it with Montreal based filmmaker Patrick Barbeau.
[3] A fortunate development occurred when rising Argentinian musician Rocco Posca asked Raphael to produce his new album, Fervor for Sony Music.
In June 2018, these recording sessions began, and on the first day guitarrist Maria Florencia Silva, offered to start a new band with Raphael, called The Wild Cards which toured briefly through South America.