| Richard Furch | |||||
| Birth Place: | Hamelin, Germany | ||||
| Education: | Berklee College of Music | ||||
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Richard Oliver Furch is an American music engineer, mixer, and pianist. He has worked with many prominent names in music, including: Usher, Prince, Boyz II Men, Macy Gray, Ruben Studdard, Chaka Khan, India.Arie, and Tyrese, as well as Chinese recording artists, JJ Lin, Tanya Chua, Wang Leehom, Jolin Tsai, and G.E.M. amongst many others.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
He has engineered and mixed music on multiple Grammy Award nominated and Grammy Award winning albums.[7] [3]
Furch attended the SAE Institute[8] in Berlin where he began studying music engineering and mixing. He attended Berklee College of Music and earned his bachelor's degree in music production and engineering.[9] Rather than returning to Berlin, Furch moved to New York where he began engineering at Sound On Sound recording studio where he worked with such acts as Outkast, Jay-Z, Usher, Edwin McCain, and Fountains of Wayne[1] Outkast won a Grammy Award for Album Of The Year for their album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below which Furch engineered parts of in 2003.[10]
Furch received Billboard Award plaques in recognition for his work on mixing Prince's, LotusFlow3r Record, released in 2008, which peaked at #1 for top R&B/Hip-Hop albums on April 18, 2009.[16] [17]
|-| || Tyrese "Shame" || Best Traditional R&B Performance || |-| || Tyrese "Shame" || Best R&B Song || |-| || Charlie Wilson "Forever Charlie" || Best R&B Album || [18] |-| || TGT "Three Kings" || Best R&B Album || |-| || Chrisette Michele Better || Best R&B Album || |-| || Tyrese "Open Invitation" || Best R&B Album || |-| || Prince "Dreamer" || Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance || |- | || Chaka Khan "Funk This" || Best R&B Album || |-| || Usher "Confessions" || Best Contemporary R&B Album || |-| || The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir "Live...This Is Your House" || Best Gospel Choir Or Chorus Album || |-| || Speakerboxxx "The Love Below" || Album Of The Year || |-| || Fountains Of Wayne Stacy's Mom || Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal || |-| || The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir "Light Of The World || Best Gospel Choir Or Chorus Album || |-| || Marcus Miller "M²" || Best Contemporary Jazz Album ||
| Artist | Album | Label | Credit | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hins Cheung | Mixing | 2022 | |||
| Hins Cheung | Mixing | 2021 | |||
| Willodean | Awesome Life Decisions: Side One | Bigger Better More Records | Mixing | 2017 | |
| Leela James | Did It For Love | BMG Records | Mixing | 2017 | |
| Willodean | Fires Cars & Autumn Stars | Bigger Better More Records | Mixing | 2017 | |
| Soul Survivor | Mixing | 2017 | |||
| Under The Streetlight | Mixing | 2017 | |||
| Vulnerable | Sincere Soul Records | Mixing | 2017 | ||
| Black Pearls | Mixing | 2016 | |||
| In My Mind | Mixing | 2016 | |||
| Livre' | Jericho: Tribe of Joshua | Mixing | 2016 | ||
| Playlist: The Best Of Edwin McCain | Piano | 2016 | |||
| Black Rose | Voltron Recordz | Mixing/Engineering | 2015 | ||
| Chocolate Drops | Sophisticated Soul Records | Mixing | 2015 | ||
| Shaliek | Blood Sweat Tears | Mixing | 2014 | ||
| Collide | Absolute/Relativity Entertainment | Engineer, Mixing, Mixing Engineering | 2014 | ||
| Fall For You | Mixing | 2014 | |||
| Promise To Love | Mixing | 2014 | |||
| The Rebellious Soul Musical Soundtrack | Mixing | 2014 | |||
| The Truth | Mixing | 2014 | |||
| Club Life, Volume 3: Stockholm | Vocal Producer | 2013 | |||
| Pedro Del Mar | Mellomania 22 | Vocal Producer | 2013 | ||
| SongVersation | Mixing | 2013 | |||
| Three Kings | Editing, Engineering, Mixing | 2013 | |||
| Friends | Terraplane Sun | Mixing | 2012 | ||
| Hotel Souza | Music Brokers | Mixing | 2012 | ||
| Michael Tiernan | L.A. Can Wait | Still Listening Productions | Engineering Consultant | 2011 | |
| Ringside | Ringside, Inc. | Mixing | 2011 | ||
| Open Invitation | Voltron Recordz | Editing/Engineering/Mixing | 2011 | ||
| Jud Johnson | 2010 | My Records | Mixing/Keyboards | 2010 | |
| Changing Lanes | Vocal Producer | 2010 | |||
| Franklin & Vermont | Ridge Rock Music | Composer | 2010 | ||
| Get To Know Me: Live at Swing House | Mixing | 2009 | |||
| Lady Love | Engineer | 2009 | |||
| LotusFlow3r | Engineering/Mixing | 2009 | |||
| Love IS | Mixing | 2009 | |||
| M.U.S.I.C. | Andrée Belle Music | Mixing | 2009 | ||
| MPLSound | Mixing | 2009 | |||
| Scary Fragile | Nettwerk/Situation Operation | Engineering, Programing | 2009 | ||
| Crazy Ever After | Mixing | 2008 | |||
| Girlicious | Engineer | 2008 | |||
| In Your Wake | Engineer | 2008 | |||
| Lalo's Urban Myth | Lalo | Lalo's Urban Myth | Mixing | 2008 | |
| The Dirty Disco | Retrosexxxual/Dirty Disco | Mixing | 2008 | ||
| Kyler England | Simple Machine | Gypsy Rock Music | Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Guitar (Electric), Keyboards, Programming, Bass, String Arrangements | 2008 | |
| You Can't Go Back | Paper Doll Records | Engineer | 2008 | ||
| Ying Foo/Corrine May | Beautiful Seed | Pink Armchair Records | String Engineer | 2007 | |
| Andrea Stolpe | You Can't Go Back | Andrea Stolpe | Piano | 2007 | |
| Jill Cunnif | City Beach | Mixing | 2007 | ||
| Funk This | Engineer | 2007 | |||
| I'll Be Home For Christmas | Def Soul Classics | Mixing | 2007 | ||
| Kyler England | Live Wire, Vol. 2, The Official Bootlegs/the Green Room Sessions | Gypsy Rock Music | Mastering, Composer | 2007 | |
| Miss Patti's Christmas | Def Soul Classics | Mixing | 2007 | ||
| 1001 Real Apes | Pel Pel Records | Trumpet | 2006 | ||
| Original Soundtrack | Mixing | 2006 | |||
| Alter Ego | Engineer, Mixing | 2006 | |||
| Confession In The Back Room | 19 North Records | Mixing | 2006 | ||
| Lalo | Half Moon | Kadooga | Mixing | 2006 | |
| Robin McKelle | Introducing Robin McKelle | Cheap Lullaby Records | Engineer | 2006 | |
| Jenny Bruce | Left Of July | Jenny Bruce Records | Mixing | 2006 | |
| Various Artists | Punk Goes 90s | Punk Goes 90s | Mixing | 2006 | |
| Kyler England | The Green Room Sessions EP | Gypsy Rock Music | Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Piano, Keyboards, Programming | 2006 | |
| Mashica | The Real Thing | Ransom Entertainment | Mixing | 2006 | |
| A Son Unique | Mixing | 2005 | |||
| Beautiful Life/Just As I Am | Engineer | 2005 | |||
| The Fallwater Project | Bridge The Gap | The Fallwater Project | Mixing | 2005 | |
| TV Soundtrack | Engineer, Mixing | 2005 | |||
| EP | Monog Records | Producer, Engineer, Mixing | 2005 | ||
| For You | MIG Records | Mixing | 2005 | ||
| Hypnotic | MIG Records | Mixing | 2005 | ||
| In This Life Together | Digital Editing | 2005 | |||
| Randy & The Bloody Lovelies | Lift | Cheap Lullaby Records | Engineer | 2005 | |
| Live From... | Engineer | 2005 | |||
| RU | RU Ready | MIG Records | Mixing | 2005 | |
| Sound Of Urchin | The Diamond | Engineer | 2005 | ||
| 10,000 Stones | Not On This Label | Mixing | 2004 | ||
| Beautiful Life | Engineer | 2004 | |||
| Confessions | Mixing | 2004 | |||
| Dark Flame | Unknown | Engineer | 2004 | ||
| Kyler | Flower Grows in Stone | Gypsy Rock Records | Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Guitar (Electric), Cello, Piano, Keyboards, Programming, Bass, Choir/Chorus | 2004 | |
| 2004 | Engineer | 2004 | |||
| Happiness | Independent | Mixing | 2004 | ||
| The Very Best of Macy Gray | Engineer | 2004 | |||
| Movie | Engineer | 2003 | |||
| Across 155th St.: The EBC at Rucker Park | Soundtrack | Melee Records | Engineer, Mixing | 2003 | |
| Joe | And Then | Engineer | 2003 | ||
| Concord Records 30th Anniversary | Soundtrack | Assistant Engineer, Mixing | 2003 | ||
| Hip Hop Story | Soundtrack | Engineer | 2003 | ||
| The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir | Live...This Is Your House | Word Distribution | Engineer, Vocal Engineer | 2003 | |
| Love Will | Orange Ray | Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Fender Rhodes, Organ, Hammond B3, Wurlitzer, Mellotron, Programming, Bass, Musician | 2003 | ||
| 24 K | Quotable | Madd Music | Engineer, Keyboards | 2003 | |
| Rise, Rise, Rise | Mixing, Mastering | 2003 | |||
| Soul From My Footsteps | Limbostar | Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Guitar (Baritone), Piano, Organ, Wurlitzer, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Vibraphone, Vocals (Background) | 2003 | ||
| Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | Engineer | 2003 | |||
| Sunshine After Rain | Assistant Engineer | 2003 | |||
| The Joyride | Assistant Engineer | 2003 | |||
| Vache Qui Pleure | Engineer | 2003 | |||
| Welcome Interstate Managers | Engineer | 2003 | |||
| Where Time Stands Still | Q & W Music | Engineering, Mixing | 2003 | ||
| All or N.O.thin' | Mixing | 2002 | |||
| The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir | Be Glad | M2 Records | Engineering, Digital Editing | 2002 | |
| Bedrock | WEA/Warner | Assistant Engineer | 2002 | ||
| Beyond The Calm of the Corridor | Engineer | 2002 | |||
| Coast to Coast (Suavemente) | Assistant Engineer | 2002 | |||
| Lalo | Lalo | Kadooga | Producer, Engineer, Mixing | 2002 | |
| Jerzee Monet | Love & War | Engineer | 2002 | ||
| Shekinah: 13 Artists | 13 Artists | Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Piano | 2002 | ||
| The Best Uncensored Crank Calls, Vol. 1 | Engineer | 2002 | |||
| Scarface | Engineer | 2002 | |||
| A Twist of Marley: A Tribute | A Tribute | Engineer | 2002 | ||
| Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane | Assistant Engineer | 2001 | |||
| Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim: Live at Carnegie Hall | Assistant Engineer | 2001 | |||
| Far From Over | Piano, Assistant Engineer | 2001 | |||
| Forbidden Broadway, Vol.7:2001 | A Spook Odyssey | DRG Theater | Assistant Engineer | 2001 | |
| Happiness | Assistant Engineer | 2001 | |||
| Kyler | How Many Angels? | Gypsy Rock Records | Producer, Engineer, Arranger, Mixing, Piano, Keyboards, Programming, Bass, String Arrangements | 2001 | |
| The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir | Light Of The World | Engineer, Assistant Engineer, Recording | 2001 | ||
| David Murray Power Quartet | Like A Kiss That Never Ends | Justin Time Records | Justin Time | Assistant | 2001 |
| Harold Alden/Terrie Richards Alden | Love | Nagel Heyer Records | Assistant Engineer | 2001 | |
| Mahogany Soul | Mixing, Assistant Engineer | 2001 | |||
| Mind and Yours | Mixing | 2001 | |||
| M² | Engineer, Assistant Engineer | 2001 | |||
| Phillips 66 | Engineer, Assistant Engineer | 2001 | |||
| Supernova | Engineer, Assistant Engineer | 2001 | |||
| Underneath | Assistant Engineer, Mixing Engineer | 2001 | |||
| Up Close and Personal | Engineer, Assistant Engineer | 2001 | |||
| Ballet Mechanique | Assistant Engineer | 2001 | |||
| Christmas Stays The Same | Violin, Assistant Engineer | 2001 | |||
| DJ Hasebe | Hey World | Digital, Assistant Engineer | 2000 | ||
| Kyler | If The World Would Just End | Gypsy Rock Records | Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Inspiration, Piano, Keyboards, Programming, Organ (Hammond), String Arrangements, Drum Loop, Bass Arrangement, Arrangement Transcription | 2000 | |
| Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: Streetsoul | Assistant | 2000 | |||
| Lauri des Marais/Erik Lindgren | Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: Streetsoul | Arf! Arf | Editing | 2000 | |
| 2000 Broadway Revival Cast Recording | Q Records | Assistant Engineer | 2000 | ||
| The Reunion | Tommy Boy | Engineer, Assistant Engineer, Mixing Assistant | 2000 | ||
| Ballet Mecanique & Other Works | For Player Pianos, Percussion, and Electronics | Assistant Engineer | 2000 | ||
| Can You Read This Boston? | Can You Read This Boston? | Big Girl Records | Producer | 1999 | |
| For Adeline | Pivotme | Engineer | 1998 | ||
| A Fine & Private Place | A Musical Fantasy | Clearsong Records | Mixing, Editing, Mixing Engineer | 1989 | |
| Already Gone | Mixing Engineer | 1989 | |||
| Year | Production | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Virginia Minnesota (Movie) | Score Mixer | |
| 2017 | Valley of Bones (Movie) | Score Mixer, Score Recordist | |
| 2017 | The New Edition Story (TV Mini-Series/3 Episodes) | Music Mixer | |
| 2016 | The Snowy Day (TV Movie) | Music Mixer | |
| 2016 | Mixed Match (Documentary) | Score Mixer | |
| 2016 | (TV Series/13 Episodes) | Score Mixer | |
| 2015 | (Documentary) | Music Mixer | |
| 2013 | Sport in America: Our Defining Stories (TV Movie Documentary) | Score Mixer | |
| 2013 | Black Nativity (Movie) | Music Mixer | |
| 2005 | Son of the Mask (Movie) | Music Mixer, Music Recordist | |
| 2003 | Bad Boy Made Good: The Revival of George Antheil's 1924 Ballet Mechanique (Documentary) | Assistant Music Mixer | |
| 2003 | Luck (Movie) | Score Mixer, Score Recordist |