The Magic Show, Original Cast Recording assistant engineer.Phoebe Snow, Phoebe Snow assistant engineer. Mood Jga Jga, Mood Jga Jga assistant engineer.Terry and Maggie Roche, Seductive Reasoning assistant engineer.Paul Simon, Live Rhymin’ assistant engineer.He is also the author of a children’s book, Princess Chantik and the Outside World, illustrated by Gale Barkus Discography He is published in the Gestalt Journal.īerger is the author of Never Say No to a Rock Star: In the Studio with Dylan, Sinatra, Jagger and More (Schaffner Press, 2016), for which he received the Schaffner Award for Music in Literature, the ARCS Award for Excellence in Recording History and a Literal Latte Essay Award for his chapter Oddballs and Angels: A Tribute to Phoebe Snow. He has presented at the Creativity and Madness Conference in Santa Fe, NM. He has invented apps for anxiety and anger. He is an active blogger on psychology, relationships, creativity and the brain. Kisco, NY and around the world via teleconferencing. He completed his post-graduate training at the Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy, NY, studied Imago Couples Therapy with its founder, Harville Hendrix, is a certified EMDR practitioner, and is a certified Amen Brain Health Coach.īerger maintains a private practice as a psychotherapist, couples counselor, artist’s mentor, and brain health coach in New York City, Mt. In 1992 Berger returned to school, receiving his bachelor’s degree from Goddard College, VT his masters in social work from New York University, NY where he received two Presidential Service Awards, and his PhD from the University of Graduate Studies, NY. There he wrote the music for, produced, and sang on, hundreds of advertising jingles. Upon returning to New York, Berger became a staff producer at Look and Co. In 1984 he took a two year hiatus from his career and travelled the world, recording the indigenous musics of the South Pacific, Fiji, and Indonesia. He recorded and/or mixed several albums by Paul Winter and other artists on his Living Music label. He recorded and co-produced music for films by John Sayles, scored by Mason Daring. He recorded, mixed, and/or mastered multiple albums for Rounder Records, the world’s largest independent label, including with artists Solomon Burke, Buckwheat Zydeco, and The Holmes Brothers. During this time he recorded and co-produced Ashokan Farewell, the theme for Ken Burns’s Civil War documentary. During that time he worked exclusively at Bob and Janet Lawson’s Blue Jay Studios in Carlisle, MA. In 1980 Berger left New York, moving to Massachusetts. He recorded, re-recorded, and produced the soundtrack for Bob Fosse’s Academy-Award-winning film, All That Jazz. On his own he recorded Steve Forbert’s Alive on Arrival, Michael Franks’s Tiger in the Rain, Karen Carpenter’s solo album, Judy Collins’s So Very Early in the Spring, Dancer with Bruised Knees by Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and What is Soul by Paul Shaffer, among others. During his tenure with Ramone he worked on Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks, Paul Simon’s Still Crazy After All These Years, and Judy Collins’s Judith, Phoebe Snow’s eponymously titled album including her top five hit, “Poetry Man”, and Starland Vocal Band, including the number one hit, “Afternoon Delight,” among others. Within eight months, he was selected by the lifetime-achievement-award-winning producer/engineer Phil Ramone to be his personal assistant engineer. Berger began his music business career as schlepper at A&R Studios in New York, pushing a handtruck of audio tapes across midtown Manhattan, at 18 in 1973.
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