one more day and then it's christmas break

...and a very deserved one for us I believe. Tomorrow we will do an alternative version of pine tree. We've done an early "neo-bossa-beatles"-version that was alright and we have done a dancable "franz ferdinand meets bloc party"-version that didn't got very well together with the lyrics, but now we think that we've found the version we're looking for. We tried it out last week and tomorrow morning we will nail the piece and commit it to digital media! Yes!


More news tomorrow.
tada!
Markus

3 + 3 songs and more to come!

Hi there!
I know it's been dead silent for a while. The reason for that is simply hard work. The last weeks we've been recording and working with artwork ideas together with Sussie. The dead line I wrote something shortly about was the dead line for the first set of songs that was to be sent to Oxford for mixing. Three songs are completely recorded so far and three more are ready to be “shipped to England” later today, or tomorrow at the latest. The (by far) hardest thing in the recording process has been recording lead vocals. Nothing is of course as important as the vocals and we’re not talking about auto-tuning, pitch shifting or any of that synthetic crap, only about reaching for the inherent feeling that is captured in the song. Joel likes to do full takes, which means that he doesn’t record the same small phrase all over again (of course sometimes some minor "cut and paste"-things are needed). It's so easy to loose the feeling if you don't get the entirety. But I guess all methods are good if they work for you.

We have really been blessed with good functional equipment so far. We've been using two microphones from the late 60:ies/early 70:ies and an old analogue mixer from the late 70:ies all the time without any problems at all. So far we’ve only broken two guitar amps(!). It’s a pity it’s so expensive changing tubes on those goodies…
We haven't had any computer probem.

yet....

oh no, I can't believe I wrote that!!!!!!!


hmm...


Have a good night´s sleep everyone!
/Markus

dead line

We have a dead line this weekend and we've been working like dogs for a while. I'm way to tired to write anything here, so I better not. Good night
/Markus

soon

hey boy and girl! this is latest news.. busy busy busy.. we thought we were fast, and honestly we are working a lot, of course with a lot of coffee breaks now and then and other duties, but the following days we have to work even harder, hard hard hard.. yesterday we worked, today we worked, tomorrow we'll work and this weekend we'll work, or at least some of us, not me.. and guess what, the most of next work we'll work! work work work.. no time for sleep, no time for fun, just hard concentrated mindcreating business with recordings, writing, administration, phonecalls and rehearsing.. last week our english label were here. it was nice. some days of futureplanning and creating new ideas.. it was me, jorel, marx, bassfather, milton, joke and sushi.. and simbaza, but he didn't doing anything than stealing our attention.. not that's not really true, he was in charge of playing games. sometimes it's necessary having some breaks and he told us about the meaning of mediatation which we need from time to time. thanks sim. well i guess that was it for now, we'll get back to you with some more info soon.. soon.. take care /joel w

6 hours

hehehe. I could have said: you do the math!

15-9 = 6

/Marko the math man

5 hour soundcheck

Last week, i think it was thursday, Joel G and Erik went to the studio at 9 o´cklock in the morning in order to record some additionl guitars for a few songs. When I got there about 3 in the afternoon, they were sort of finnished with choosing guitar sound...5 hours.

5 hours!


Anyway, it sounded cool, but I´m glad Joachim is heading over this weekend to shape up some things :-). We will work thursday to tuesday and we will keep you posted on whats going on.

take care!
Markus

the weekend

Yesterday we had a whole day of recordings. Fire is right about done and we have organized for a technition to tune me and Joel's parents grand piano tomorrow, which means that we can finnish "I want this night" this weekend too! The original piano was a bit out of tune and sounded a bit dull. We also took some time yesterday to do some planning and administration related things -always so time consuming.
We will work the entire weekend and will probably get a whole lot done!
Cheers for now,
Markus