Strings at Kamelen

Hi!
After a week with plenty of rehearsals on both ooc-songs as well as soundtrack of our lives-songs, we didn't record anything this week at all (except for the day before yesterday). I'm well aware of that we haven't been writing anything on our blog for a while and we've been rather busy working. We have tried out different versions on the botanist and continued recording guitars for fire and alternative basslines for a few songs that we might rerecord later on.

Like I said we recorded some things yesterday. Joel G and our sister Mirjam started working on some string arrangements. Mirjam, who is studying violin in Denmark, came home this week and we got the chance to work with her again. Check out the video, it is probably not the version that will appear on the album, but who knows?

Later we will let you know what happened Friday evening in Kullavik!!!
/Markus

sometimes

I´m working alone today. The other day Joel and I recorded vocals for sometimes and today I sat by the computer all alone and "glued" the sound files together in order to be able to send them to england over the cabel. I took a while I must say, so I´ll probably be able just to start recording some guitar overdubs for fire. Tomorrow Erik Joel and I will continue recording and later Martin and Joel will join us. Our producer seems to like our version of sometimes so it looks like we can move on to the next song (i.e fire) for now!

/El Markish

Saving blue

Me and Erik went to see Saving Blue's last gig at Pustervik yesterday evening. It´s a shame they're breaking up. I got me a nice red SB-logo t-shirt though, it sort of eased the pain a little.

Today JoelG and I are recording some pump organs and vocals and some guitars later on if time is on our side. Maybe we´ll write something more later. tada!

/Markus

"Kanelbullens dag" is the best day of the year!

Hi there! Well, as said before we have been busy some weeks with a wedding. But now we're rolling again! Some weeks ago wemet up with our producer Jocke and his wife Susanne. We made a schedule for this autumn, so now there are no moreexcuses for not working! We know what to do and we are inspired...! Yes.

We have 16 recorded songs that have been waiting for us to be finished since june. During the next two months we are aiming to compleat at least five of them. For christmas we will have a promo finished. So far the work has gone well! Today I have been recording some guitars on "Sometimes I'm Afraid".They sound so nice, so nice:) As I'm writing I hear Markus recording his guitar in the background...Tomorrow Joelwill be doing some vocals. I'm sure that "Sometimes..." will be our hit!!!

Joel W caught a nasty cold a few daysago. He is at home drinking tea with melon and eating C-vitamin-pills (at least that's what I told him to do when I visited him yesterday!). I'm sure he will recover soon, he is a strongboy-) Okay, 30 minutes ago me, Markus and Joel had a coffea-break (oh no-we're back in our terrible coffee-habits again...). Anyway, we talked about a new song that I wrote some days ago. We have got many songs, and we're writing all the time.Well, on monday next week we will have a rehearsal for a gig at Kullavik the 19th this month and on next thursdaywe will continue recording...We will update you with the latest news so sit back and just relax! bye for now,

Oh, I almost forgot to say that we're so happy that today is "Kanelbullens dag". I've already got my hands on twoof those delicious things...On top of everything it's also another reason for us to drink some more coffee, you know!/Erik M

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Another awakening

Hej boys and girls! We are still alive, we didn't stop playing, we just didn't write for a while, but now we are on again with recordings after the summer and the pre-fall. And we are even more motivated than before.. We're gonna have a busy autumn finish the recording the songs, but it's gonna be better and more interesting than before.. Some new creative ideas have emerged along the way.. So you will have something to look forward hopefully, another out of clouds will show up in the beginning of next year.. But until then we'll keep you updated what's going on!
And the photo on the left is from our last show at Sticky Fingers, Gothenburg, last week! Take care and tata! /Joel W and OOC...

Back from the gig of the summer!!

Yes!

We´re back from Frizon and an amazing gig at Magasinet. The day started of fine with Joel and I singing the Turkish national anthem at the “soccer stadium” for the annual festival soccer tournament. It all started with a few people from the Frizon Crew walking in to the backstage area saying –oh, do we know anyone who can sing any national anthem except “du gamla du fria”, “the star spangled banner” and “god save the queen”? I sort of replied that I think our singer knows the Turkish one! Good, they said, We´ll meet you and Joel at the soccer ground in 20 minutes. Hehe. I had to learn the anthem in 20 minutes (Haven´t heard it before). I didn´t learn it by heart though, Joel put the words down on a note for me. Anyway, It was great fun singing that anthem in a Caruso-sort-of-hairy-strong-manly-style. I think it was a success…

Later we got interviewed by Wilhelm Blixt from Dagen regarding music, faith and genres. Thank you Kim who practically set up that interview for us!

The gig was amazing like I said. Martin was in fact at a wedding nearby, so he missed the sound check and Joel had to play bass and sing. Martin almost gave us a heart attack when he phoned us saying –I´m late!!! He finally showed up half an hour before the show and we all could calm downJ! One cool thing with playing at the Magasinet was that they open the big doors only minutes before the show actually starts, which also makes one rather nervous since you couldn´t tell how many people there were until a few minutes before it was time to enter the stage. Frankly we were rather nervous because we didn´t know if we were to expect 50 or 500 people. It showed later that it was the latter!!

Here is the set list with some comments:

Intro –Joel W:s psycadelic 9 guitar layer intro for the first time

I want this night to be over

Pinetree

The worm –first time live, what a rocket!!!!!!!! (click here for a clip from frizon, not that good soundquality though...)

Oasis –first time with the new chorus

Botanisten –This is one of the strongest songs playing live for me

Sometimes –A new intro that we tried with Botansten that came out great

Like a lily –The new punkier version of like a lily

Fire –I got to do my nervous “at the drive in”-feedback things on my guitar in the end of the song. Hehe, me like ;-).

A few of the songs has still their old “work names” and will be named different on the record. We will tell you later exactly what songs will be renamed.

I big thank you to all of you who showed up and made our gig so special!!! It was really the best gig with out of clouds for me and I think that you could tell that by looking at me during the show!!!

Big thanks to Mia, Kristin and Edla for your loving support, Emmanuel from olive shoots for the pictures, Kim for the interview and for reading our blog ;-), Mattias for the ride to Frizon and Olive shoots for the ride back home! Thanks Frizon for being so easy to work with! A great arrangement!!

Take care,

Markus and the rest of the clouds

parapluie

Hi ya!
We had a good night at Parapluie's 2 years anniversary party yesterday. Great music and nice people! We rehearsed the worm yesterday evening for quite a while before we went to Parapluie's. We tried a new chorus (lyrics and melody), but It´s so hard to make it stand out!Anyway, this afternoon will also be our third lyrical aftornoon in a row and we will also spend the evening in our concrete bunker practicing for the Frizon festival next weekend. Lot of work, great fun.

El Markish