The Beginning

Hello, here's the beginning of the Morph Productions Blog. This will be used to discuss news at my studio Morph Productions, located in Toronto Ontario. I found that the news page on my site is too limiting in space so there will be expanded news here as well as topics I choose to cover regarding music recording, production, writing as well as the music business in general.

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