Cenzo Townshend
Vincenzo "Cenzo" Capellini Townshend (born 25 March 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 + the Machine, Jamie T, Friendly Fires, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, the Maccabees, Jamie Cullum, Mystery Jets, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, and Thirty Seconds to Mars. 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.
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Cenzo Townshend
- Name
- Cenzo Townshend
- Birth Name
- Vincenzo Capellini Townshend
- Born
- 25 March 1963
- Occupation
- * Mixer
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Fields
- rock
- Languages
- English
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Key facts
• Name — Cenzo Townshend • Birth Name — Vincenzo Capellini Townshend • Born — 25 March 1963 • Genre — * Rock • pop • indie rock • indie pop • Occupation — * Mixer • audio engineer
Early life
Early life
He is the only child of Antonio Capellini and Lady Carolyn Townshend, the eldest daughter of George Townshend, 7th Marquess Townshend. After his parents divorced in 1971, his mother remarried to Edgar Bronfman Sr. in 1973, but they separated after only 10 days and the marriage was annulled in 1974. Townshend was educated at Milton Abbey School in Dorset.
Career
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. As of 2012, Townshend mixed from his Decoy Studios in Woodbridge Suffolk.
Selected discography (mixing)
Cenzo Townshend discography • Year — Artist — Album — Song(s) • 2024 — DI-RECT — Sphinx • 2023 — Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Hana • 2020 — DI-RECT — Wild Hearts • Sea Girls — Open Up Your Head • Oh Wonder — No One Else Can Wear Your Crown • 2019 — DI-RECT — Nothing To Lose (EP) • 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 — Wishes • 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 — The Zutons — 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
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- 1.Company-director-check.co.uk. VINCENZO CAPELLINI TOWNSHEND director information. Free director information. 2010-01-13.
- 2.Ymlp.com. Cenzo Townshend Joins GPS Client Roster.
- 3.Secrets Of The Mix Engineers: Cenzo Townshend. Soundonsound.com.
- 4.Cenzo Townshend | Credits. AllMusic.
- 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.Waves Artist Feature.
- 7.MediaPros. Cenzo Townshend Case Study.
- 8.The Shortlists for The MPG Awards 2017!. The Music Producers Guild. 11 November 2016.
- 9.Taylor, Angela. Work, It Has Been Said, Is Ennobling.; . And Many Modern Nobles Seem to Act Accordingly. The New York Times. 21 August 1966.
- 10.Lady Carolyn Townshend to Wed. The New York Times. 26 October 1973.
- 11.Kandell, Jonathan. Edgar M. Bronfman, Who Built a Bigger, More Elegant Seagram, Dies at 84. The New York Times. 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.
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