Cenzo Townshend Explained

Cenzo Townshend
Birth Name:	Vincenzo Capellini Townshend
Birth Date:	28 October 1963^[1]
Occupation:	Mixer, audio engineer

Vincenzo Capellini Townshend (born 28 October 1963) is an English record producer, mixer, and audio engineer, and has worked with artists and bands including the Rolling Stones, a-ha, Kaiser Chiefs, U2, Snow Patrol, Florence and the Machine, Friendly Fires, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, the Maccabees, Jamie Cullum and Thirty Seconds to Mars.^{[2] [3] [4]} Townshend was awarded 'Mix Engineer of the Year' for two successive years by the Music Producers Guild Awards in 2009 and 2010, and nominated again in 2016, 2017 and 2018.^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

Early life

He is the only child of Antonio Capellini and Lady Carolyn Townshend,^[9] the eldest daughter of George Townshend, 7th Marquess Townshend.^[10] After his parents divorced in 1971, his mother remarried to Edgar Bronfman Sr. in 1973,^[11] but they separated after only 10 days and the marriage was annulled in 1974.

Townshend was educated at Milton Abbey School in Dorset.^[12]

Career

Townshend began his career by working at Trident Studios in London in the late 1980s, eventually working as an assistant engineer for Alan Moulder and Mark 'Spike' Stent. Following this, Townshend worked independently with producer Ian Broudie for 8 years and then joined producer Stephen Street at The Bunker in Olympic Studios in London where he maintained residency until its closure in 2009.^[3]

As of 2012, Townshend mixed from his Decoy Studios in Woodbridge Suffolk.

Selected discography (mixing)

Cenzo Townshend discography

Year	Artist	Album	Song(s)
2023	Sophie Ellis-Bextor	Hana
2020	Sea Girls	Open Up Your Head
	Oh Wonder	No One Else Can Wear Your Crown
2019	The Rolling Stones	Honk	"Living in a Ghost Town"
	Keane	Cause and Effect
	The Specials	Encore
2017	Everything Everything	A Fever Dream
	Rat Boy	SCUM
	Maxïmo Park	Risk to Exist
	You Me At Six	Night People	"Take on the World"
	Amy Macdonald	Under Stars
	James Blunt	The Afterlove	Make Me Better
2016	The Courteeners	Mapping the Rendezvous
	Passenger	Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea
	Sophie Ellis-Bextor	Familia
	Jake Bugg	On My One
	Suede	Night Thoughts
	Kaiser Chiefs	Stay Together	various
	The Feeling	The Feeling
2015	Nothing but Thieves	Nothing but Thieves	various
	a-ha	Cast in Steel	"Cast in Steel" "Mythomania" "She's Humming A Tune" "Giving Up The Ghost" "The End Of The Affair"(only included in bonus disc)
	The Maccabees	Marks to Prove It
	Everything Everything	Get to Heaven	various
	SOAK	Before We Forgot How to Dream	"Sea Creatures" "B a noBody"
	All We Are	All We Are	various
	Rhodes	Whishes
	FFS	FFS	various
2014	George Ezra	Wanted on Voyage
	Jamie T	Carry on the Grudge
	Jungle	(Single)	"Time"
	Port Isla	(Single)	"In The Long Run"
	Foxes	Glorious
	Sivu	Something On High	various
	The Family Rain	Under the Volcano
	Dotan	7 Layers
	Ward Thomas	(Single)	"Push For The Stride"
	Passenger	Whispers	(Single)
2013	Tom Odell	Long Way Down	tracks
	Lissie	Back to Forever
	Together Pangea	Badillac
	Skaters	Manhattan
	Devlin	A Moving Picture	tracks
2012	The Vaccines	Come of Age
	Kensington	Vultures
	Tom Jones	Spirit in the Room	"Hit or Miss"
	Miles Kane	First of My Kind
	Sharon Van Etten	Tramp	(Single)
	King Charles	LoveBlood
	Kaiser Chiefs	Start the Revolution Without Me
	Paper Route	The Peace of Wild Things
	The Maccabees	Given to the Wild
	Snow Patrol	Fallen Empires	Various
	Kate Miller-Heidke	Nightflight
2011	Ben Howard	Every Kingdom	"The Fear", "Diamonds" & "Keep Your Head Up"
	Alex Winston	Velvet Elvis EP
	Eskimo Joe	Ghosts of the Past
	Crystal Castles	Crystal Castles II	"Not In Love" (Ft. Robert Smith)
	Guillemots	Walk the River	"I Must Be A Lover"
	Patrick Wolf	Lupercalia
	Friendly Fires	Pala
	The Feeling	Together We Were Made
	The Horrors	Skying	"Changing the Rain"
2010	Zebra & Giraffe	The Inside
	Bryan Ferry	Every Kingdom
	Devlin	Bud, Sweat and Beers
	Grinderman	(Single)	"Palaces of Montezuma"
	Detroit Social Club	Existence
	Tom Jones	Praise & Blame	"Did Trouble Me"
	Yeasayer	(Single)	"Madder Red"
	Jamie Cullum	The Pursuit	"Don't Stop the Music"
	Corinne Bailey Rae	The Sea	"Paris Nights/New York Mornings"
2009	Thirty Seconds to Mars	This Is War
	Starsailor	All the Plans
	Florence + The Machine	Lungs
	Hockey	(Single)	"Too Fake"
	U2	No Line on the Horizon	Various
	Franz Ferdinand	Tonight
	Jamie T	Kings & Queens	"various"
	Ida Maria	Fortress Round My Heart
	Editors	In This Light and on This Evening
	Late Of The Pier	Fantasy Black Channel
2008	Snow Patrol	A Hundred Million Suns
	Elbow	(Single)	"One Day Like This"
	Infadels	(Single)	"Make Mistakes"
	Infadels	(Single)	"Free Things For Poor People"
	Primal Scream	Beautiful Future	"Beautiful Future" & "Can't Go Back"
2007	The Maccabees	Colour It In	"Toothpaste Kisses"
	Jamie T	Panic Prevention	"various"
	Peter Bjorn and John	Writer's Block	"Young Folks" ft. Victoria Bergsman
	Kaiser Chiefs	Yours Truly, Angry Mob
	Athlete	Beyond the Neighbourhood
	Babyshambles	Shotter's Nation
	Bloc Party	A Weekend in the City
	Editors	An End Has a Start
	Interpol	Our Love to Admire	"No I In Threesome"
	The Maccabees	Colour It In	"About Your Dress"
	Mystery Jets	Diamonds in the Dark EP
2006		Tired of Hanging Around	"Valeria"
	Snow Patrol	Eyes Open
	Graham Coxon	(Single)	"What Ya Gonna Do Now?"
	Babyshambles	The Blinding EP
	Mystery Jets	Floatsam and Jetsam EP
	Graham Coxon	Love Travels at Illegal Speeds
	Editors	The Back Room
2005	New Order	Waiting for the Sirens' Call
	Kaiser Chiefs	Employment

External links

• Spotify Playlist
• AllMusic Discography
• Decoy Studios

Notes and References

1. Web site: VINCENZO CAPELLINI TOWNSHEND director information. Free director information . Company-director-check.co.uk . 2010-01-13 . 2014-08-02.
2. Web site: Cenzo Townshend Joins GPS Client Roster . Ymlp.com . 2012-08-15.
3. Web site: Secrets Of The Mix Engineers: Cenzo Townshend. Soundonsound.com. 15 August 2020.
4. Web site: Cenzo Townshend | Credits. AllMusic. 15 August 2020.
5. "Muse thank Rick Rubin for teaching them 'how not to produce' at Music Producers Guild Awards", NME, 11 February 2010, retrieved 2011-06-10
6. Web site: Waves Artist Feature. https://web.archive.org/web/20110103140034/http://www.waves.com/content.aspx?id=10379. dead. 3 January 2011. 15 August 2020.
7. Web site: Cenzo Townshend Case Study . MediaPros . 2012-08-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120826071812/http://www.mediapros.co.uk/cenzo-townshend/default.aspx . 2012-08-26 .
8. Web site: The Shortlists for The MPG Awards 2017!. 11 November 2016. The Music Producers Guild. 15 August 2020.
9. News: Taylor . Angela . Work, It Has Been Said, Is Ennobling...; ... And Many Modern Nobles Seem to Act Accordingly . 13 August 2021 . . 21 August 1966.
10. News: Lady Carolyn Townshend to Wed . 13 August 2021 . . 26 October 1973.
11. News: Kandell . Jonathan . Edgar M. Bronfman, Who Built a Bigger, More Elegant Seagram, Dies at 84 . 13 August 2021 . . 22 December 2013.
12. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003 volume 3, page 3923.