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Sonics Mastering



CD Mastering, Vinyl, Streaming,
Restoration & Hi Res Audio
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+33 (0)6. 77. 81.7 1. 61 - Mon - Fri, 9H30-19H00
Studios Decanis - Sonics Mastering - 1 rue Cadolive - 13004 Marseille







Sonics Mastering is a full-service mastering studio situated in the south of France, in Marseille, created in 2003, providing attended mastering sessions and online mastering services, We believe that effective synergy with the mastering engineer is essential for the successful completion of your project.





Sonics Mastering is equipped with a mix of the finest modified analogue gear, high end digital hardware as well as some of the most innovative software and plug ins for mastering purposes.

The studio is located in a pleasant pre-production music complex : Les Studios Decanis .

You can also make the most of the lounge and bar area providing Wifi coupled with the private parking facilities.

Contact us by phone or email at [email protected] and we would be happy to help




Gypsie kings, Piers Faccini, Charlie Winston, Tigran Hamasyan,

Ballaké Sissoko, Chinese Man, Arthur H, Gabriel Yared, Will Oldham,

The Legendary Tigerman, CAMILLE, Robin Guthrie, French 79, Magic Malik, Ibrahim Maalouf, Hyphen Hyphen, Ba Cissoko, Yvan Le Bolloc’h, Rodolphe Burger, Soprano, Louis Winsberg, DJ Oil, Khalil Chahine,

David Linx, Justin Adams, Andy Narell, Raoul Petite, Babet,

Levon Minassian, Imhotep , Dawn Landes, Blick Bassy, Deluxe, Daniel Levi, Dee Nasty, Dom La Nena, Tiken Jah Fakoli, Cedric Myton and the Congos, Massilia Sound System, Nasser, Jul, Vaudou Games




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Roger Damawuzan - Seda



February 11, 2023





One of the pioneers of Togolese afro-funk Roger Damawuzan is back with a brand new album entitled Seda.


Produced by Peter Solo


Recorded in Studio Otidi in Lomé, Togo by Patrick Jauneaud


Mixed by Christian Hierro at Back to Mono , Lyon


Mastered by Christian Hierro & François Fanelli at Sonics Mastering studio, Marseille


Hot Casa Records Paris, France



Ibrahim Maalouf - Capacity to Love



November 04, 2022





15th studio album of Ibrahim Maalouf with many guests :


-M- , De La Soul , Erik the Architect , Flavia Cohelo , Sharon Stone , D Smoke , Gregory Poter , JP Cooper , Austin Brown ...


Produced by Ibrahim Maalouf with Nutone (Arthur Caget) & Henry Was.


Recorded by Oscar Ferran and Hope Brush.


Mixed by Stan Neff and Vincent Audou


Mastered by Francois Fanelli at Sonics Mastering



Gnut - Nun te ne fa’



October 23, 2022





Nun te ne fa’ : the beautiful new album by Gnut and produced by Piers Faccini


Nun te ne fa’ is the title of Italian singer songwriter Gnut’s fourth album. In Napoletano, his native language, Nun te ne fa’ is a way of saying “don’t worry” or “it’ll all work out for the best” and is a kind of philosophy that sums the southern Italian way of life, in particular the city and the people of Naples.


Recorded and mixed by Francesco De Nigris, Roma, IT


Mastered by François Fanelli at Sonics Mastering


Produced by Piers Faccini



Magic Malik - Ka-Frobeat



September 10, 2022





Flutist and composer Malik Mezzadri has brought together nine musicians for his new project "Ka-Frobeat", a musical journey between Africa and Guadeloupe.


Released on the Onze Heures Onze label.


Recording and mixing: Julien Reyboz at Ohm Sweet Ohm studio, Paris.


Mastered by François Fanelli at Sonics Mastering, Marseille



Hifiklub + Scorpion Dagger feat. Alain Johannes & Iggor Cavalera



July 06, 2022





Hifiklub's new album, ScorpKlub I & II Original Soundtracks, will be released on vinyl and digital via Electric Valley Records It is the soundtrack of an audio-visual project based on the oldest paintings of the Toulon Art Museum, with the participation of artist James Kerr aka Scorpion Dagger, as well as Alain Johannes (Them Crooked Vultures, ex- Queens Of The Stone Age, Eleven, Chris Cornell...) and Iggor Cavalera (Cavalera Conspiracy, Petbrick, Absent In Body, Soulwax, Mixhell, ex-Sepultura...)


Produced by Hifiklub and Anthony Belguise

Recorded by Anthony Belguise at Coxinhell Studio (Saint-Aygulf, FR) and Laima Leyton (London, GB).

Mixed by Anthony Belguise at Daffodil Studio (Toulon, FR). Mastered by François Fanelli at Sonics Mastering (Marseille, FR).



Ray - Ray first LP Produced by The Legendary Tigerman



June 24, 2022





Luís Raimundo, known in the music scene as RAY, has made rock n’ roll a soundtrack for his life. It was noticed sometimes in a more muscular, visceral and raw way, as it did in The Poppers, sometimes in a more introspective and dense way, as it happens later in the Keep Razors Sharp. In – RAY – he is now surrounded by musicians and creatives chosen by him to accompany him on this new journey destined to a happy destination. Among them are names like Paulo Furtado (The Legendary Tigerman), who produced RAY’s first album at Coxinhell Studios on the French Riviera, Filipe Costa (Sean Riley & The Slowriders), The Poppers, Francisco Dias (Them Flying Monkeys, Marinho), Joana Medon, Anthony Belguise and Ivo Purvis (in the artistic and image direction).


Recorded & mixed by Anthony Belguise at Coxinhell Studio

Mastered at Sonics Mastering, Marseille



Carnets de Voyages, Compagnie Aprés la Pluie



May 11, 2022





The Carnets de Voyages collector's box set, including two books, volume 1 Voyages autour du monde and volume 2 Voyages imaginaires, as well as two CDs, 14 stories and 14 previously unpublished songs, is available!


With the exceptional participation of Hugues Aufray, Thierry Beccaro (Unicef ambassador), Dominique Blanc (member of the Comédie Française), Charlélie Couture, Sébastien El Chato, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Grand Corps Malade, Ginie Line, Sanseverino and Jacques Veneruso.


As well as all the company's actresses.

Carnets de voyages is available at [email protected] or on 09 51 09 83 32.


Recorded and mixed at Hypérion studio in Marseille Mastered at Sonics Mastering, Marseille



Oriane Lacaille - Hear My Voice EP#5



April 15, 2022





In 2018, Piers Faccini came up with the idea of releasing an EP vinyl series, in order to champion the kind of eclectic and talented artists the label meets and seeks out for their productions. The EP collection called, HEAR MY VOICE, began with distinct and original voices from around the world: the Neapolitan songwriter, GNUT, New Zealand songstress, TUi MAMAKI and the Trinidadian poet and singer, Roger Robinson under his Folk alias, HORSEDREAMER. In November 2019, for the fourth EP in the collection, wishing to highlight the series more, PIERS FACCINI decided to release one of his own. Today, ORIANE LACAILLE, the French singer and percussionist whose origins are from the island of La Réunion, releases the fifth jewel in the series. Hear My Voice Ep #5, like all the others in the series, was recorded and produced by Faccini in his studio in the Cévennes in southern France.



Hifiklub & Duke Gardwood & Jean-Michel Bossini



January 08, 2022





”Last Party on Earth”, Hifiklub new LP with Duke Garwood and maestro Jean-Michel Bossini is out now on Subsound records


Mixed by Alain johannes (PJ Harvey, Dave Grohl, Artic Monkeys..) at 11AD Studio , Los Angeles


Produced by Anthony Belguise (Charlie Winston, The Legendary Tigerman..)


Mastered at Sonics Mastering, Marseille


Recorded at studio Coxinhell, Frejus


Graphic Design by Helenemlx



The Sand Eating Shark 52' Documentary



December 22, 2021





After winning the best doc at the international 'Water, sea, ocean', The Sand Eating Shark crosses the Atlantic to win an Award of Excellence in the prestigious Accolade Global Film Festival in Los Angeles!


The Sand Eating Shark written, produced and directed by Bertrand Loyer

Music composed and Orchestrated by Samuel Safa

Mastered at Sonics Mastering

Preformed by the soloist of the Scoring Orchestra Paris


Violin: Romuald Grimbert-Barré

Cello: Jérémie Billet

Piano: Maxence Grimbert-Barré & The Fames Project Orchestra



Holy Bounce Orchestra



September 29, 2021





Swingin' At The Bear's Den by Holy Bounce Orchestra is now available.


New tribute album to the great composers of the 30's, from Duke Ellington to Count Basie and Louis Jordan .


Recorded and mixed at Studios de l'Hacienda by Stéphane Piot and mastered by François Fanelli at Sonics Mastering


Released by Jinrikisha Production on September 24th 2021


🎻Pierrot Brondel 🥁Josselin Perrier 🎷Vincent Périer 🎷Thibault Galloy 🎺Thomas Le Roux 📎Anthony Bones 🎹Camille Thouvenot 💻 Jinrikisha Production 👯 Tom Nodal Dora On Stage 🎛 Stephane Piot 💿 François Fanelli



Massilia Sound System



June 04, 2021





Massilia Sound System, a reggae group founded in 1984, is releasing its ninth album:

Sale caractère, seven years after blowing out the candles of its 30 years of existence.


Released on June 4, 2021


S. Attard, D. Danger, L. Garibaldi, G. Kayalik, R. Mazzarino, F. Ridel


© Les Editions du Gabian



Thais Lona



April 29, 2021





Thaïs Lona's very first EP, "Dancing Again" is out this April 29 Thaïs Lona signs her first EP on Ibrahim Maalouf's label, MISTER IBÉ

Composed by Thais Lona & Nutone (Arthur Caget)

& Ibrahim Maalouf

Mixed by Florian Combarnou at Les Studios de L'Hacienda

Mastered by François Fanelli at Sonics Mastering (1-4) &

(5) Mastered by Simon Lancelot at Studios Ferber


Produced by Ibrahim Maalouf


© 2021 Mister Ibé ℗ 2021 Mister Ibé



Ballaké Sissoko



April 09, 2021





New album Djourou, expected on April 9 on NØ FØRMAT! Among the guests of Djourou (the rope in Bambara) Piers Faccini, Oxmo Puccino, Salif Keita, Camille, Sona Jobarteh, Vincent Segal, Patrick Messina and Arthur Teboul from Feu! Chatterton



Kady Diarra



April 02, 2021





Kady Diarra new LP Burkina Hakili released !

Burkina Hakili is the third opus of Kady Diarra

Mixed by Jean Lamoot (Bashung, Noir Desir, Salif Keita..)

℗ Lamastrock

L' Autre Distribution



Dan Gharibian Trio



April 02, 2021





If Bratsch was the spearhead of Gypsy and Eastern music in the 1980s and 90s and until this fateful date of December 31, 2015 when they stopped traveling the world, Dan Gharibian is one of the emblematic figures. Santiags never left, oriental elegance, a "face" remarkable among all and especially a Voice. A voice that seems to have absorbed all the smoke of the rebetiko bars, rubbed with arak and vodka; a voice that sings gypsy, Armenian, Russian songs and ballads, Greek blues. So welcome to this new trio that brings together Benoit Convert of "Les Doigts de l'Homme" and Antoine Girard, a child of the ball, fed from an early age by these ballads.

Release on : April 02,2021




[HIFIKLUB + EUGENE CHADBOURNE]



March 03 , 2021





Hifiklub and Eugene Chadbourne (Shockabilly, John Zorn, Zu, Sunwatchers) cover Lizzy Mercier Descloux's entire album "Press Color"

Released on : 2021-03-12

℗ Parallel Factory



Risplendenti Riversi



November 8, 2020





Ancient yet near, splendour revealed in a rearward glance. Accompanied by Michel, Natasa, Luciano and Jarrod, we travel through lands and time, languages and sonorities on an unusual route spanning neighbouring cultures: Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Italy, France. The journey circles lives to spark dances and loves, producing its own rites, its own encounters, and a profound sense of the sacred. It follows a perpetual pilgrimage over the centuries, each a trace of grace. Performed on voice, serpent, electric bass, accordion and percussion, the music on this new recording is sonorous, haunting and beautifully performed by these talented musicians.