Helsingborg at 9 pm.

ok, first gig for a rather long time tonight. We´re going to Helsingborg and the city festival to play at "pilgrimstältet". We´ve been rehearsing a couple of times this week for the first time since we recored the same songs earlier in june and it felt really good I must say! We can't wait to get up on the stage tonight! Unfortunately we haven't finnished the lyrics for 'the worm' yet, but we will give you a brand new version of 'like a lily' -shorter and grittier!

btw, don't miss our booking agency Parapluie's 2 year anniversary at Pustervik in Gothenburgh on the first of August.

hej då,
Markus

Rain

What happened to our summer?
Warum regnet es so viel?
stäng av kranen tack.

umpah!

...or in the words of the genious Tomas Öberg: "trallalla lilla molntuss".
We've now been thinking our selves sleepy (to be honest we were all tired allready from the beginning...) after a solid evening of lyrical compositions. Today's work has been a brand new song that we cal "the worm". If things go as we plan we will atleast try it for the first time at one of our festival gigs this summer.

Oh, and regarding the beard; it's still there! ...and it smells delicious...

We took a little break while Erik and Joel W are still working with the lyrics. In the background I just heard Erik ask a question: -Why do we die?...

We almost forgot the list markus mentioned earlier. Here it is -All the recorded songs:
The worm ---The botanist ---I want this night to be over ---Fire--- 26--- the oasis--- bullet in the air--- Tell the time--- Breath my way--- Pinetree--- "that summery love song we don´t have a name for yet"--- Simbaza--- Sometimes I´m afraid
and three oldies dressed in new clothes:
Like a lily--- Revelations in a cold season--- Stop

We have also recorded a few demo songs at kamelen and probably one of them will be rerecorded for the album.

This will leave us with about 20 songs to choose between.

Good night and enjoy your breakfast.
Joel G and Markus (the one looking like a drunk clown)

5th time to night

Those lyric nigths/mornings has been really good so far. It´s our 5th time tonight. Some of the songs has been totally rewritten, at least regarding the lyrics. I don´t think that we´ve really written down all the recorded songs yet, I think I only mentioned 12 of them earlier in june. Anyway, we will write down a list of all the recorded songs later today, gotta go now.
/Markus

refinement night

hey'ya all! for 2 solid evenings we've been having cosy tea and coffee meetings refining our lyrics and friendship. everyone has been tired as usual but it was a good experience to actually talk to eachother without really playing.. hmm.. to be honest the guitars were present from time to time anyway. it was a good time having a poetry-slam! for the first time in out of clouds' history we've been writing and banging our heads together to squeeze out all lyric ideas. it has been some results so far, but of course we won't share them with you yet. U'll have to buy the album later... so no "free" downloading tonight fellows!

Another thing we've been doing is discussing whether joel g should shave off his beard, or let it grow until the release of the album. What do you think? Let us know what u'd prefer!
Over and out.. Take care ladies and gents!

/Jo El W, Jo El G, Mart in, El Markish (Erik is practising with his guitar)

Step 3

step 3
It´s been a week since our busy recording period and it´s time to start the third step of the process. This blog started of in the middle of step 2, i.e: the actual recording period. I would like to call step 1 the "preproduction period". The thing is that most of the songs that we recorded ( well, in fact all of them) has already been recorded during the autumn ´06 or winter 07:, i.e Step 1. A few of them were recorded with the intention to be tracks entirely ready for the album. But due to us being totally unable to hear the songs as a third person, we needed to do new versions of every single song :-). It´s so hard to kill your darlings you know... Anyway, the preproductions are really crucial, because they save you loads and loads of time once you hit the studio for real.

Step 3 is the loooong period when you decide together if the recorded songs are "the right versions?" and once that is done you get to this list:
Lyrics, l-e-a-d v-o-c-a-l-s (that´ll take time), overdubs, string arrangements, "choir-arrangements", additional recordings of: strings, pump organs, percussion, grand piano and organ, soundeffects, instruments that we don't even know yet and blablabla...

Anyway, what we're facing is a massive and interesting period of additional recordings at "studio Kamélen". YES!!!
We might head over to England to record some vocals as well, but we´ll start at the cosy Kamélen.
We´ll Keep you posted during the third step as often as we can!
Take care!
/Markus