Noah Georgeson has a knack for hearing what a song needs. It is not a style that defines the California producer and composer's approach to music as much as a sensibility. He likens it to the Japanese phrase wabi-sabi, meaning "beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete." Collaborators look to him "to mess up the sound of a record," he says, and surface those weird moments, textures, and signatures that often surprise and stick around in your mind, becoming singular and timeless.

An in-demand producer, mixer, and musician, Georgeson's path begins as part of the 2000s indie-folk movement, marked by breakthrough records with Joanna Newsom, his former bandmate, Vetiver, Mason Jennings, Little Joy, and Devendra Banhart, a creative partnership that flourishes to this day.

His instincts for recording expressive instrumentation, honed across those folk touchstones, naturally led Georgeson to Latin music; in recent years, he's worked on acclaimed albums by Natalia Lafourcade and iLe. Equally, he has leaned towards off-kilter pop, producing projects with Andy Shauf, Cate Le Bon, Marlon Williams, and others.

His work has seen recognition from the Grammys, Latin Grammys, and JUNO Awards, plus an Emmy nomination for the theme music to the Netflix series Narcos.