Some Stuff I Produced
Awards
Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film and AAFCA Award for Best Short Film: “Two Distant Strangers”, 2021
Gold Certification (RIAA and Music Canada): “Wild Side” by Normani and Cardi B, 2021
Gold Certification (RIAA and Music Canada): “City of Gods” by Fivio Foreign, Kanye West and Alicia Keys, 2022
Summit International Awards’ Gold and Silver Medal in the Guerrilla/Unconventional Marketing Category: “Dominican Republic POP Funhouse”, 2019
Nomination for an Independent Music Awards in Alt. Country: “Carnation” by Boyish, 2018
People I’ve recorded and/or mixed for
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Kali Uchis, Keith Richards, Lenny Kravitz, Alissia Benveniste, Cindy Lauper, Darlene Love, Imani Graham, Mia Nicolai, A$AP Ferg, Martti Franca, The Dutch Kills, Jerry Barnes, Cardi B, Georgia Parker, Dardust, Emmi, Zeed, Tolü Makay, Bangs, Aman Jagwani, Boyish, JR (Tehachapi Documentary), BlackPop (Documentary, NBC), Katreese Barnes, Lucas Jagger, Antonin Rubatat, Al Riordan, Graymarker, Mada Mada, Pop Smoke, Dominic Fike, In Love With A Ghost, Hailee Steinfeld, Dominican Republic Ministry of Tourism, Mark Ronson, Lightchild, Ron Howard, Hana Bookman, Warren Hue, Rich Brian, Milli, Idris Elba, Tyla, Josh Groban, Sally Boy, Tay Keith, Russ, Sheck Wes, Lightchlld, BDM! Circus, Meli, Rick Beato, MIKVH, Jessika, Kaeleigh Spreen, Ronny J, Nora Tirrell, Noyan Özkan, Niu Raza, Sérgio Manique Jr., Ekkstacy, Clémence Ducreux, Alexis Leroy, Akshara, Epiphany Monet, Vlade Guigni, Cashflow Harlem, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Dougie F, Carolina Shine, Sheila, Tristan Simone, Derro, Ron Browz, Kinpak, Victoria Amazonica, Cruz the Wave, Boy Blue & Keish, Letters from my Garden, D. Wexx
People I’ve played drums for
Georgia Parker, In Love With A Ghost, Fake Dad, Boyish, Carol, Amnasty, La Vague (Thérèse), Mada Mada, Mohammed Alidu, Body Meta, João Perrusi, Camilo Velez, Bassiste Magazine, Cindy Latin, Caitlyn Holley, Vessela Stoyanova, llghtchlld, Gracy Hopkins, Millisa Henderson, Anahide, Les Tambours de Brazza, Ivo Malec, Nguyên Lê, Benoît Sauvé, Sylvain Beuf, Victoria Caffè, Nina Grace, Nadia Kazmi, Copper Slap, Marinca
Bio
Aleksi Godard is a drummer, mixing engineer, and record producer based in New York City since 2019.
He was born in France to a family of musicians and grew up playing drums in bands while studying classical percussion and jazz drumset at the Noisiel Conservatory as well as the Music Academy International of Nancy. While some of the artists he’s worked with have amassed millions of “streams” and have won several “awards”, he remains passionate about collaborating with indie artists.
He played drums in Boyish for 6 years, formed while attending Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 2017, the band released their first EP “Carnation”. The EP features Godard on drums, percussion, rhodes, recording, and mixing duties and was nominated at the 2019 Independent Music Award for Best Alt-Country Album. After graduation, the band moved to New York City to work on their highly anticipated second EP “Garden Spider”.
As an internationally touring drummer, Godard has performed at the Art Rock Festival, David Lynch’s Silencio, the Berklee Performance Center, and the Mercury Lounge to name a few. One of his favorite gig in Paris was to play drums in La Vague (with Thérèse Sayarath) but he also had the occasion to perform with artists outside the rock or pop world such as Nguyên Lê, Sylvain Beuf, and Ivo Malec at the Conservatory of Noisiel.
Godard often takes on engineering and production duties with the bands he plays in and developed his sound roaming New York’s studio scene. He started his studio career as an intern and later on general assistant at Electric Lady before moving to a staff engineer position at The Hit Factory (aka Germano Studios) for 4 years.
Aside from original music, he was also the mixing engineer on the award-winning Pop FunHouse in Miami, New York, Boston, and Chicago. This immersive pop-up museum designed for the Dominican Republic ministry of tourism received the gold and silver medal at the 2019 Summit International Awards in the category Guerilla/Unconventional Marketing.
