Aaron Sprinkle

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{{short description|American record producer}}

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| origin = Seattle, Washington, U.S.

| genre = Alternative rock

| occupation = Record producer, recording engineer, musician, songwriter

| instrument = Guitar, vocals, keyboards, percussion

| years_active = 1990–present

| label = Tooth & Nail, Silent Planet, Organic

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Aaron Sprinkle (born March 20, 1974) is an American record producer and musician from Seattle, Washington.

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Career

His career in music began in high school with a group called BellBangVilla. BellBangVilla became Poor Old Lu and they released a number of albums (see below). Aaron Sprinkle also sang and played lead guitar in Rose Blossom Punch, and has produced albums independently.{{cite book |last=Powell |first=Mark Allan |title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music |year=2002 |publisher=Hendrickson Publishers|isbn=1-56563-679-1 |edition=First printing |page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofco00mark/page/858 858] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofco00mark/page/858 }} On his solo releases, he plays almost all instruments except drums. He produced dozens of records for Tooth & Nail Records between 1993 and 2016.{{cite journal |last=Dodd |first=Jason |title=Aaron Sprinkle |date=January–February 2002 |journal=HM Magazine |issn=1066-6923 |issue=93 |pages=15 }} In 2005, Sprinkle formed the band Fair with Joey Sanchez, Nick Barber, and Erick Newbill. Fair released its debut album The Best Worst-Case Scenario on Tooth & Nail Records in June 2006. He is the brother of drummer Jesse Sprinkle. Among others, Jesse played with Aaron in Poor Old Lu, was the most recent drummer of Dead Poetic, and was also an early member of Demon Hunter, whose albums Aaron has produced the majority of.

Discography

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= Solo (1999–present) =

  • Moontraveler (1999)
  • The Kindest Days (2000)
  • Really Something EP (2001)
  • Bareface (2001)
  • Live: The Boy Who Stopped the World (2003)
  • Lackluster – Best Of (2004)
  • Water & Guns (2013)
  • Real Life (2017)
  • Escaping Light (2018)
  • Instrumentals, Vol. 1: Alexandria (2018)
  • Instrumentals, Vol. 2: Unravel (2019)
  • Instrumentals, Vol. 3: North Coast (2019)
  • Instrumentals, Vol. 4: Feather Falling (2021)
  • Walking Back (2021)
  • Certainty (2021)

= With Poor Old Lu (1990–2002) =

  • In Love with the Greenery (As BellBangVilla) (1990)
  • Three Song Demo (Cassette only) (1991)
  • Star-Studded-Super-Step (1992, 1995 & 1998)
  • Mindsize (1993)
  • Split 7″ with Mortal (1993)
  • Sin (1994)
  • Straight Six (1995)
  • A Picture of the Eighth Wonder (1996)
  • In Their Final Performance (1998)
  • Chrono [1993-1998] (1998)
  • The Waiting Room (2002)

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= With Rose Blossom Punch (1997–1999) =

  • Ephemere (1997)
  • So Sorry to Disappoint You (1999)
  • Par Avion 7″ vinyl

= With Fair (2006–present) =

= With Blank Books (2017–present) =

  • EP1 (2017)

= Contributions =

== Solo ==

== With Rose Blossom Punch ==

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Production work

Aaron has production, engineering, or other credits on albums by the following bands:

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References

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