habits.

It has been a few days since the first recording session ended.. We've recorded more than we thought we should do even though it has been very hectic. So we think we can be satisfied so far hopefully! But it was with tears in our eyes when we left the studio, it has been our "home" for 10 days and leaving it felt like going home after a fantastic trip abroad or a summercamp.. We'll miss it.. During the week some habits emerged along the way.. Due to too less sleep we had to drink a A LOT of coffee to stay awake, which led to very dramatic changes in our bodies which led to very dry and funny jokes..

But also some great ideas, especially some takes we had close to midnight.. But we hope that we captured the feeling of those songs.. Well well..
Now everyone has started working with "ordinary jobs" for a short while to get crumbs on the table, then next week we'll continue rehearsing and recording again at "kamelen". Kamelen is our own little cosy studio in Gothenburg where a cat lives.





Well folks, that's it so far, we're exhaused but happy in the same way. Keep on following the next adventures of AuTo-klAuS.. Take care and over and out..

/Joel W

15 songs so far

It´s been another super long day. Last night we manage to get a twisted version of 'breath my way'. A very slow and stumblin' one with a nice saloon piano. We also got really nice new versions of 'the botanist' and 'fire'. The previous version of 'fire' sounded like a mixture of at the drive in and Håkan Hellström. Very nice, but not very out of cloudish though...

Today we rerecorded 'Like a lily' and 'revelations in a cold season', which are the only songs we thought was worth another try from our older material, except for a wildcard we will try to record tomorrow called 'STOP'.

One disturbing thing though: We recorded three songs with a metronome i.e dangerously close to the ****-way. The songs came out far more better than they did without a metronome. That's what happen when one turns into mr bigmouth ;-).

/Markus

12 hours

We arrived at the studio exactly 12 hours ago. Long day, ey? We are planning on doing some more things before we pack up for the evening.

Like I wrote before we decided to rerecord some songs that we committed to digital audio during the week(hehe). We did our 25th live take of the worm just before dinner. Will we ever be pleased?

These are the songs recorded so far:

pinetree

the botanist

fire

tell the time

I want this night to be over

the worm

carried

Simbaza

the oasis

Bullet in the air

Erik B dropped by this afternoon and took some pictures. As some of you know he has been taking a break from ooc during the past year and we haven´t seen him much, so it was great meeting him again. I almost forgot, we dropped by the harbour to get a nice bath.

/Markus

analyse

Today we started of with just listening to all of the songs we recorded so far. Some of the songs were recorded at the speed of light and had to be rerecorded. Typical. The rest sounds nice and fresh.
We record everything live in the studio to get the spontanious feel, which is also a good way to get the material NOT sounding like **** or their likes... Speaking of ****, at a party yesterday we bumped into two really nice fellows who played in a band heavily inspired by ****. Well, now I have ** go, it´s time to do some recordings on "the worm" and later on "botanisten". We´ll put up some pictures later on. Take care!

love,
Markus (I don´t have anything against ****, it´s just that...ehrm...well)

ps. I´m NOT speaking on behalf of the band and this is not an official statement or anything ;-).

så att jorå

Nu har vi blivit väldigt moderna, dvs internetifierade så till den milda grad attvi skaffat ett blogg-konto. Vi tänker även bli bevandrade i det anglosaxiska spåket, varför större delen av bloggen kommer att vara på english. So, anyway. Idag är vi dock lite trötta efter flera dagar av inspelningar så vi orkar faktiskt inte tänka i andra bananer. Det blir svenska idag. Swedish. Sorry.

Som ni kanske vet (eftersom ni säkert kommit hit från vår hemsida el myspace) håller vi på att spela in vår debutskiva tillsammans med Joakim Sehlstedt. En vanlig dag i studion har hittils inte sett ut som planerat. Det är nämligen så att vi är ett band med 5 tidsoptimister, vilket
innebär att vi inte kommit igång i tid en enda dag. Den enda dan vi verkligen var på g (förrgår), hade Martins bilbatteri laddat ur så vi fick haffa en vänlig själ som hade koll på gamla mercor. ok, det här lär ju inte vara ett dugg intressant, så vi slänger in lite bilder från studion istället.

Ni äter vi lite tårta som vi fått av en snäll person och snart skall vi ta midsommarledigt resten av dagen. Det blåser och regnar ute -en helt vanlig, härlig midsommar med andra ord!!

Det bästa med att spela in är inte att det är så otroligt kul som det faktiskt är, utan att slippa raka bort det taskiga skägget med motiveringen: "jaghinnerinteförviharsåmycketattgöraplusattdetärrocknroll"

VI hörs!

/Markus

Ps Maybe someone else have the strength to write something in english tomorrow.

Ps2. Hoffentllich jemand will etwas in deutch schreiben manchmal.