Daniel Balthasar & Band

What a day!

2011-04-12T23:39:00.004+02:00

Boy, we really had a day full of work! 7 hours of recording strings and we are more than happy with the results!

Anne-Marie, Isabelle, Elisabeth, Astrid, Judith and Emmanuelle came in and played like hell until their fingers bled.

(Attention: dramatization of the actual events. No bleeding today)

Girls. You know them. They just want to have fun.

Recording strings

2011-04-12T15:56:00.007+02:00

The master himself directing the string section ...

Friday recordings done!

2011-04-09T01:40:00.002+02:00

Another day of recording is over and we're almost done. Next Tuesday 12th April, we'll be back in the studio for some serious string recordings. 4 strings and 2 celli are joining us in this project. This should be interesting...

So, have a nice weekend in the sun and we see us on Tuesday.

You know, we have lots of humor, but this is just plain sick. Poor guy...

This is Mike

2011-04-09T01:27:00.002+02:00

It's about time that we give a little space on this blog to the brave engineer who accepted to record us.

Well, this here is Mike Butcher...

Don't make any jokes about his name. He heard them all...

Here he is doing a reference to the 1968 cult-movie "2001"...

"Wow! The monolith!"

We're back! Again!

2011-04-08T13:55:00.005+02:00

We're back in the studio for a day of recording. Emmanuelle came in today to play the cello on one track.

Here she is doing a reference to the 1990 blockbuster hit-movie "Home alone".

She's so funny.

It's a wrap!

2011-04-03T19:55:00.004+02:00

Voilà, 3 days of studio recording are already over. Time flies when you're having fun!

We'll be back in the studio next week to record an awful lot of strings. This should be interesting...

Don't sit around waisting your time! Go write notes for the strings, you lazy bastard!

Yes, I was talking to you! And don't give me that look!

In this picture: plain awesomeness.

Mich as the tambourine man.

Amporama & Drumotopia.

By the way, we always thought this was a wrap...

See you in a week!

Sing Star

2011-04-03T14:35:00.002+02:00

Jim and James popped in to sing a few takes. Here they are:

Lovely boys.

Day 3

2011-04-03T10:58:00.003+02:00

Wow, we are progressing better than ever. All guitars are recorded and Mich is currently recording the vibes.

Archive picture: Mich before his drastic diet.

Guitar Hero

2011-04-02T17:33:00.004+02:00

James is doing right now what he knows best. Nice for the rest of us, so we're having a break...

By the way, this here is James new guitar...even if looks like it fell of the delivery van on the motorway...

They call it the Relic look. Where we come from, we call it broken...

Springtime...

2011-04-02T16:41:00.004+02:00

You're probably sitting in the garden sipping your Martini on the rocks while reading this. Enjoying the sun, aren't you?

Well, the studio we're working in right now exactly has 1 window. Here's the view:

Wouldn't it be great to be bass player in a band?

2011-04-02T14:51:00.003+02:00

Imagine how life would be as a bass player in a band...

That's what your days would be like:

In the morning, go to a studio and have a croissant.

Somewhat later, play a few tracks and be awesome.

Work done, sleep all day, party all night.

No really, he's not faking it.

See?

5 rules to successfully blog about a recording session:

2011-04-02T09:38:00.007+02:00

1) Post a picture of a mix table!

What you think when you see this: "Wow! These guys must be good if they know what all these knobs are for!"

What we think: "Why's that red light blinking?"

2) Post a picture of the recording interface!

This is an essential picture for the success of your recording blogging. It shows the outside world that you are actually recording and not sitting around playing minesweeper or solitaire.

3) Post a picture of the mess you created!

We see: a mess.

You see: creativity!

4) Post a picture of busy band members!

What you see: "Wow, these guys are so busy, they can't even go to the studio for one day without being bothered!"

What you don't hear: "So, I'll get the eggs and milk later. Do we still have spaghetti?"

5) Post pictures of sexy band members!

Well, that's all we got. No complaints please...

We're back!

2011-04-02T09:33:00.003+02:00

Yes, we are! We started recording the music for a new project yesterday. We are actually progressing very well...so we've got the time to fool a around on our blog page!

More posts soon!

Dear diary

2010-08-02T15:12:00.002+02:00

To all dear readers of our blog: we had a great time recording and blogging over the last 9 days.

You surely wonder how it will go on with the recordings and everything else. Well, that's not a secret at all: we will continue recording vocals and accordion (yes, accordion...) in Luxembourg during the next weeks.

Werner Pensaert will be mixing the album starting September 6th at Audioworkx in the Netherlands. If we are lucky, we will release it mid-November. But you know how luck works...

We will be blogging every step of the completion of our album and let you know how we're progressing.

Thank you for now, we'll be back soon and we hope that you had fun reading all this.

So long,

Daniel

Saying goodbye

2010-08-02T15:03:00.005+02:00

Thanks to Stijn and Tine, we had a really great and comfortable time at LaChapelle.

Sam as we will remember him...in his yellow shirt.

James and Daniel doing the "show me the love" thing.

Packing our stuff and leaving

2010-08-02T14:48:00.005+02:00

We spent over an hour cleaning up the studio in order that Stijn doesn't need to spent the next days to erase the chaos we've created during the last 9 days.

Vero and the Mikes...actually a great name for a band...

Mikes without Vero...actually a very bad name for a band...

James jiggling his stick.

Daniel standing around looking busy so that others do the work.

James in blurry black&white action.

Daniel, prince of darkness.

Recordings at LaChapelle completed!

2010-08-02T14:43:00.003+02:00

We stopped our recordings at LaChapelle tonight. We did an enormous amount of work in the last 9 days and we leave the studio with a thrill of anticipation for the rest of the recordings and the mixing process in early September.

Sam closing the studio session.

It's getting late...again

2010-08-02T14:34:00.004+02:00

No, Daniel is not sleeping in this picture. He's actually listening to the tracks he recorded. Wow, this guy is very focused! James in the background on the other hand...

If you wonder how Sam managed to grow this tall, it's his daily ration of M&M's.

Vero and Mich are really sleeping. See the difference?

Day 9 - last day at LaChapelle

2010-08-02T14:24:00.006+02:00

Oh boy, it's already the last day and there's so much left to do. We did a great amount of vocals today, as well as little percussion things. In the picture: Mich shaking his ass of...

...while others did a serious amount of reading.

James doing some backing vocals.

James laughing while playing on a crappy banjo.

Leaving our house on the prairie

2010-08-02T14:08:00.010+02:00

We packed our stuff today and had to leave our wonderful little idyllic house where we slept and lived the last 9 days. (To get into the right mood while watching these pictures, put on a record with decent music with lots of strings in it)

Damn, that's so touching...

Say goodbye to Anis the house cat.

So long and thanks for all the fish!

Mich in a very melancholic mood.

James drinking coffee while hiding his tears.

Daniel in melodramatic poses...with deer.

The fine art of cooking

2010-08-02T13:52:00.004+02:00

Tine and Stijn went totally crazy with the cooking today and made an enormous fish for us.

Fish, also known as meat for vegetarians.

Working late again and exploring sounds...of crap

2010-08-02T13:02:00.006+02:00

After long and exhausting day, we used the time late at night to try a few sound extravaganzas. We spent almost an hour to find a right way to record a Kalimba before we decided that it sounded like "hey, let's do something very cool!" but it just didn't sound right for the song.

In this picture: Mich sausage-fingers.

Looks arty, right?

Lento has left the building

2010-07-31T23:27:00.009+02:00

Lento has finished his bass parts and left. We will dearly miss him.

To honor his contribution to this album, here's another very manly picture of Lento.

In this picture: memories from happier days.

All this time

2010-07-31T19:30:00.002+02:00

After the vocals for "Walk under Water", Daniel recorded the guitar for "All this Time", a special track...more to come. Right now Lento is recording the last bassline and James will be playing his banjo part.

Vocals pt2

2010-07-31T16:21:00.002+02:00

Sam finally managed to convince Daniel to use a single microphone. On the other hand, the background decoration has drastically improved.

First track for vocals is "Walk Under Water".

Vocals

2010-07-31T14:08:00.004+02:00

Daniel has started recording vocals. As he is suffering of megalomanic tendencies, he insists on using a maximum of microphones...

Early hours

2010-07-31T08:49:00.005+02:00

The recording session went very late last night. Earlier, James did an incredible amount of guitar tracks for "Ready".

In fact we had to stop working (doing bass tracks) at 1 o'clock in the morning, because our ears were so jammed, we couldn't figure out if the tracks we were laying down, were even in tune.

Here's proof of what happens when there's too much Stella Artois involved!

Working late today

2010-07-30T21:15:00.004+02:00

We decided to take a small break at 20:00 and drive to a belgian upper-class burger restaurant to gather energy for a longer nightshift.

You surely know that feeling when you want something very bad but you know that it's not good for you. Here's a picture of it...

First sunbeams in 7 days

2010-07-30T17:35:00.004+02:00

Finally we had a little break from the rain we had the last entire week, so we got outside to work on our suntan.

New shoes

2010-07-30T14:56:00.003+02:00

As per public request, here are Lento's new sneakers....

Have a look at his "Héichwaasser".

Men power

2010-07-30T13:40:00.005+02:00

The question is: what makes you feel more like a man than buying new gear and turning knobs on a panel with blinking lights?

Right! Fixing gear! This automatically raises your testosterone level to a point where you could kill a deer with your bare hands and devour it's rare meat (yikes!).

This leads to more manly poses like this one.

A negative side effect is that you may lose some screws while doing your manly poses and forcing all members of the band to crouch on the floor looking for that damn thing.

Day 7

2010-07-30T10:19:00.004+02:00

2 days left, 2 songs left to record. We will see how we progress the next couple of days. Maybe we will stay an extra day if it's needed.

Recording the cello

2010-07-30T10:14:00.002+02:00

We stopped late yesterday around 23:30. Emi has recorded the cello parts for "Satellites" and parts of "Concrete walls". We will finish the cello recordings this morning...fingers crossed.

Emi has arrived

2010-07-29T23:21:00.003+02:00

Emmanuelle has finally arrived to record the cellos. After only 5 minutes she already started to crush some balls...

Daniel aka "Lazy Bone"

2010-07-29T21:55:00.000+02:00

Musician's life can be very hard! After having a little powernap, Daniel stays in the same position to record the guitars for "Give in 4". Meanwhile Lento bought some new stuff...new shoes. Damn, no gear for his bass, but only this time...

Fräuleinbesuch

2010-07-29T16:32:00.004+02:00

Lento recorded the bassline for "Walk under Water" under the draconic surveillance of his girlfriend.

You see that? Aaiii!

He did this with an old Rickenbacker, made in the U.S. and A.

Vibra-Mich

2010-07-29T13:34:00.003+02:00

Guitars are done for "Walk under water". Mich is recording the vibraphone now...

By the way, we recorded the drums for "Walk under water" with this crappy bass drum that we found on the studio attic.

Day 6

2010-07-29T11:18:00.004+02:00

Even if we worked late yesterday, we started early this morning. James is recording the guitar to "Walk under water" right now, which figures his famous "chicken picking" that goes a little bit like this...

Late in the afternoon, Vero and Emi will finally join us and add massive female sex appeal to our sessions. Of course, Emi will bring her cello and start recording early in the evening.

11:30 pm and still recording...

2010-07-28T23:21:00.003+02:00

Sam is trying to find the right natural reverb for Daniel's guitar on "Walk under Water".

Right now he is recording in a small place with a blanket in front of him.

Eating in a studio

2010-07-28T20:13:00.009+02:00

We have the great luck that Tine and Stijn from the studio make great lunch every day for us.

And they really make great stuff for us like...

See?

We eat around 14:00 an go on working until 23:00. By then, all restaurants in an around Waimes are closed and none of us is in the mood for cooking (except Sam who made a great spaghetti carbonara a few days ago). That's why we mostly eat very unhealthy stuff in the evening like...

Thank God we all have our personal trainers when we come home, otherwise none of us could have such muscle packed bodies.

In the picture: real men.

Recording guitars for "Concrete walls"

2010-07-28T16:48:00.004+02:00

After finishing up "Come for you", we started working on "Concrete walls". Daniel just finished the acoustic guitars and now it's James' turn to record the electric guitars.

Here's a view from the recording room into the control room.

More amps, more guitars and other stuff

2010-07-28T14:22:00.003+02:00

We are trying a lot of gear as the LaChapelle studio has got a lot of funky gear to use...

Day 5

2010-07-28T12:07:00.008+02:00

Day 5 at LaChapelle:

We started around 10 and continued to work on "Come for you". Daniel has already recorded the acoustic guitar and Lento is currently recording the bass. After that, we will move on to song 5 "Concrete walls".

For breakfast, we decided that eggs weren't enough and added some extra bacon today.

This pig didn't die in vain.

The cat stopped by and said hello. We thank it for adding a bit more cuteness to our blog. Hail to the cat!

Mich has left the building

2010-07-27T22:37:00.005+02:00

After recording the organ for "Come for you", Mich said goodbye (as you see in this faked archive photo we took some days ago because we forgot to shoot one as he was leaving) got into his car and is right now on his way back to Luxembourg. But don't you fear, dear reader, Mich will be back tomorrow night. It's like in those horror movies: they always come back!

Fear this man

Meanwhile, we're still working on bass and guitars for "Come for you".

Recording "Satellites"

2010-07-27T20:30:00.008+02:00

We are currently working on "Satellites", which by the way is not the Eurovision Song Contest winning song, but an old song that Daniel rediscovered in his closet and decided to change entirely.

James is recording right now his guitar on an old Roland amp from the 80ies, probably one of the ugliest amps ever designed by human kind. We just call it the "ugly fucker".

Oh boy, that's really ugly!

Mich has most of his work done and is basically hanging around and drinking beer.

Proof

Here's another picture of our beautiful recording room. Just like that...

How to achieve world domination (for bass players)

2010-07-27T15:21:00.010+02:00

First of all, you need more gear. Always twice as much as the next bass player in the neighborhood. Here's the equation:

New gear = more power

What's even cooler than buying it in a shop is ordering it on the internet.

When your gear arrives, quickly open the package and make manly poses…a little bit like this…

Secundo, record a track using the internationally famous "Power stand", that goes like this…

If you look closely, you see how the legs form a perfect triangle which will give you more power to perform with conviction. This will ultimately lead to…

world domination!

Doing stoner guitars

2010-07-27T15:07:00.003+02:00

Daniel is doing guitars for "Keep It" using a vintage Marshall Super Lead 100 amp and an Aguilar db112 bass cab.

Doing stoner guitars pt2

2010-07-27T15:04:00.002+02:00

The amp is so powerfull, it disturbs every other electronic device!
Have a look at the TV.

back online

2010-07-27T14:48:00.001+02:00

After a rather long internet hiatus WIFI is back and we are online again.

Sam is having fun doing the Mambo....

Day 3 wrap up

2010-07-27T00:12:00.005+02:00

What a day! We finished the first complete track today and made good progress on the second one called "Keep it". We were back at our house around 23:30 and James and Lento went on rehearsing while Sam made Spaghetti.

To finish the 3rd day here in Waimes, here's a picture of Anis, the house cat straight from hell.

Good ol' Honky Tonk piano

2010-07-27T00:02:00.007+02:00

After recording all the guitars and bass for "Sarcasm", Mich played the vibraphone an an old detuned piano. This looks and sounds a little bit like this...

Light speed is underrated

2010-07-26T19:48:00.005+02:00

While Lento was recording the bass for one song (and renaming it in an "not suited for children under 16" way…Revenge, Lento! Vendetta, vendetta!), Mich and Daniel drove to Verviers where the nearest music shop is located to get some new strings for an acoustic guitar.

They borrowed Lento's car and Mich drove like an lunatic (in German: Rabiate Rennsau), almost approaching light-speed. You can see in the picture how fast Mich actually drove (you've seen Star Wars, right?).

Now guess what we found in Verviers? Of course you're right...

First bass track is done!

2010-07-26T19:27:00.004+02:00

Lento finished the bass track for "Orgasms Saved the World".
Have a look at the vid!

more "leisure" activities

2010-07-26T19:04:00.006+02:00

In our series of "what to do when not playing music", we present you an excerpt of the book "The Daily Adventures of Mixerman" by Mixerman (www.mixerman.net). This fall the long awaited sequel, "Zen & the Art of Mixing" will be released by Hal Leonard Pub.

James Santana

2010-07-26T15:26:00.001+02:00

James showing of his skills...and Sam pulling the handbreak.

Behind the wall of sound

2010-07-26T15:24:00.001+02:00

James is actually recording the guitars for "Sarcasm".

.... preparing more songs

2010-07-26T13:20:00.003+02:00

in the meantime Lento is doing his homework: preparing more songs..............

Source of inspiration

2010-07-26T12:04:00.002+02:00

This is what we are listening to in order to get in the right mood at breakfast.

Day 3

2010-07-26T10:59:00.005+02:00

While it is raining cats and dogs outside, James started to test guitar sounds for "Sarcasm rules the world" (no Lento, it's not "Orgasm rules the world"...).

Art

2010-07-25T22:20:00.003+02:00

Recording in a studio can be very boring if you play the one instrument that's not needed right now.

Musicians find different solutions for that. James used his time to do something creative. By now, some of us wish he didn't.

Wait for the ending and pump up the volume.

Backup plan

2010-07-25T22:11:00.006+02:00

Because of the guitar incident (in German: "Klampfen-Desaster"), we decided that Mich was the right person to save the day! So he went and recorded the tambourine for "Sarcasm rules the world" and "Keep it".

What's wrong with these 2 pictures?

2010-07-25T21:42:00.004+02:00

For all the mystery fanboys: Now what's wrong wit these 2 pictures?

Yes, in one picture there's a string missing.

And yes, in the other picture there's a package with a string missing. Guitars usually happen to have 6 strings.

The story behind it is the following:

Daniel must have been a little bit brutal with his guitar and broke a string. "Let's change it" he thought and took the spare set of strings he bought a couple of days ago. As he opened it, he discovered that one string was missing.

You know what's coming, don't you? Yes you do.

The one string he needed was nowhere to be found. Someone must have stolen it from the shop he bought it in.

Which leads us to the moral of the story:

God is a sadist.

You've heard it here first...

Finally Daniel has started working

2010-07-25T21:05:00.003+02:00

His Majesty, Daniel has started recording acoustic guitars for "If Orgasms Ruled the World"

Looking to get the right bass sound

2010-07-25T18:51:00.006+02:00

We tested different bass sounds for the song "Walk under water". At one point, we even tried to replace the bass guitar by an old Hammond organ, as shown in the following video...

...and decided not to.

... more curious & funny stuff

2010-07-25T18:19:00.002+02:00

Lento complying to modern entertainment requirements

guitar tech station

2010-07-25T18:10:00.007+02:00

Meanwhile in the control room...

2010-07-25T18:04:00.005+02:00

While Mich is playing his ass off, the boys have fun hanging around and talking nonsense in the control room.

Finishing the drums

2010-07-25T17:59:00.002+02:00

We spent most of the day finishing up the drums so far. 1 track left, then Mich can take a small break.

Day 2

2010-07-25T12:47:00.003+02:00

Hi there! We started today with Sam's legendary eggs (the extra ingredient is...wait for it...butter. Who would have expected this?). To worship Sam's cooking, we drove to the pharmacy to get some serious stuff to fight his back pains.

Right now, we have already started recording and Mich played the drums for 2 songs, "Satellites" and "Sarcasm rules the world". We're progressing...

Day 1 wrap up

2010-07-25T00:51:00.003+02:00

Day 1 is done! We experimented a lot today and finished the drums for 4 tracks. We finished around 22:30 and ordered some tasty stuff from a chinese restaurant in Malmédy. We're back in our house now gathering inspiration for tomorrow.

First takes

2010-07-25T00:44:00.005+02:00

We had some trouble with our internet connection today, but we are back online. Meanwhile, we started recording the drums for "Give in", "Concrete walls", "Keep it" and "Come for you". You see, we were pretty busy today.

Lento in heaven

2010-07-25T00:38:00.002+02:00

Lento was having lots of fun today exploring the complex structures of Stoner Rock bass-lines.

Sam on the floor

2010-07-25T00:32:00.003+02:00

Unfortunately, Sam has a bit of trouble with his back, that's why he spends most of his few breaks lying on the ground.

Setting up the bass (and more drums)

2010-07-24T13:43:00.005+02:00

We are currently working on the bass sound. By the way, the black thing on which Lento is standing is not a Hoverboard, but a vibrating platform. Besides the fact that he looks like a G.I. Joe action figure taken out of the package, this platform makes him feel the drum and bass while playing with headphones. Now THAT'S science-fiction!

Studio testing

2010-07-24T11:32:00.005+02:00

We finally made it to the studio and started to set up the drum sound and guitar and bass amps. In a couple of hours we will start the recordings. We will try to record the first song "Give in" live, to get the energy right on tape...or hard disk to be more correct.

Early birds

2010-07-24T11:18:00.007+02:00

We got up early today, well, for musician standards, and Sam made his famous eggs sunny side up. We got an early visit from the house-cat, that seemed to like the smell of Sam's eggs. After that, we were off to the studio around 09:30.

Our Little House on the Prairie

2010-07-24T00:51:00.004+02:00

Here are some impressions of our little cottage 5 minutes from the studio (with deer inclusive). See you tomorrow...

Arrival at the studio

2010-07-24T00:42:00.008+02:00

Hi there! We arrived at La Chapelle Studios tonight at 19:00 and put our stuff in place. We already set up the drums so that we can start tomorrow morning. After all this, we drove to our house where we will live the next 8 days.

Recording the piano

2010-07-22T22:05:00.004+02:00

The recordings to our 4th album have officially started yesterday evening. We recorded the piano for 3 songs at Mich's place. Thanks to Marc for stopping by and tuning the piano. And of course Sam, who will spent the next entire week with us at the studio.

Tomorrow evening, we will move to a belgian small-town called Waimes, where we will be recording the entire album in the marvelous "La Chapelle Studios". See you tomorrow...

24th July 2010

2010-05-03T10:12:00.002+02:00

Welcome back to our blog! Not so far in the future, we will begin recording our 4th album at La Chapelle Studios in Belgium. We will be updating this page with pictures, movies and sounds every couple of hours, so you will get a close look at the progression of the recordings.

It all starts on 24th July 2010. Make sure to drop by!

Pido Perdon Trailer

2009-07-03T20:10:00.004+02:00

Here is the first trailer for "Pido Perdon", short-movie by Sascha Heyar which will be released this summer. Daniel wrote the score for it and cello performances are by Emmanuelle Seiwerath. We will keep you informed when the movie will be shown on the big screen.

Ocean Video

2009-06-15T08:48:00.003+02:00

Please have a look at the video to our new single "Ocean". The video was shot and edited by Jacques Molitor.

"Bonobo" Trailer

2009-02-08T20:30:00.004+01:00

We just uploaded the first trailer of Jacques Molitor's new short-movie "Bonobo". The original music was written by Daniel. The film premiers probably in April. So here are the first pictures...

Release of Palpitations on 16th December 2008 at Melusina (Luxembourg/Clausen)

2008-12-16T13:34:00.002+01:00

Yes, we did it. We came a long way with this album. That's why we are even more excited to present Palpitations to you all, tonight at the Melusina. We are happy to welcome you all.

More pictures of Audioworkx Studios

2008-10-28T23:20:00.007+01:00

Here are some more pictures of the Audioworkx Studios, taken from their website www.audioworkx.nl.

Sam eating and getting things done

2008-10-28T21:39:00.003+01:00

From Friday to Sunday, we stayed in a marvelous Bed&Breakfast in Landrop, near the studio. Thanks to Anne-Marie and her husband, we had breakfast like british Lords.

Mixing Palpitations

2008-10-28T21:35:00.005+01:00

We are currently in Hooveloon in the Netherlands to mix our new album. Mixing is done at the Audioworkx Studios by Werner Pensaert. More pictures are coming.

Studio recordings completed

2008-07-29T17:55:00.003+02:00

Hello everybody who followed our recording marathon last week. We finished our sessions on Sunday night at 00:30, stuffed our cars with our gear and drove back to Luxembourg.

To sum the last week up: we spend up to 16 hours of recording everyday, tried a lot of new sounds, developed a bunch of new ideas, had a lot of fun eating and drinking together, got to know each other better and made us a week to remember. A very special thank you goes to Sam Wirtz, who worked like a lunatic to prevail against technology and who made us grow to our maximum.

We hope you had fun following us creating the backbone of our new album. However, we are not there yet. We will start recording the backing vocals and other things soon. We will also record cello and strings in the next couple of weeks. We will update this blog as soon as we have something new to show you. So, we will stay in touch. Thank you all and we will get to you soon.

Getting more things done ...

2008-07-27T20:49:00.000+02:00

Recording vocals for "A to E" pt2

2008-07-27T20:26:00.002+02:00

unplugged

Recording vocals for "A to E" pt1

2008-07-27T20:08:00.004+02:00

Daniel is in a very good flow. He is doing 6-7 vocal tracks today.

No lazy Sunday!

2008-07-27T16:52:00.002+02:00

Daniel has started recording the vocals. As Sam likes the room and the tasty microphones, they are trying to record as many tracks as possible.

In the meantime everybody is hungry...

Day 7

2008-07-27T15:10:00.003+02:00

Sam is desperately trying to keep track of cables, convert files, import sessions, keep the computers running, ... while some of us are sleeping or practicing Rockstar/the "Dude" aka Big Lebowsky poses.

Blogging 2

2008-07-27T15:07:00.001+02:00

James and Lento are enjoying the night outside and are trying to post some new posts to this blog.

Bass recording is finished

2008-07-26T23:36:00.004+02:00

While Daniel "Ball-Taser" is making fun of his band, Lento finishes his bass tracks.

Taking a nap

2008-07-26T23:32:00.000+02:00

Sometimes it is boring...

"Accidentally" and "Outside" completed

2008-07-26T21:36:00.004+02:00

While Lento was having fun updating our blog the last couple of hours, James and Daniel recorded the guitars for "Accidentally" and "Outside". Currently we are working on "I fell down". Right now, we are trying to stop Lento from having funny ideas by forcing him to record the bass for the song.

Weekend in the studio...

2008-07-26T20:08:00.002+02:00

Daniel is getting drunk, so Sam is trying to get a hold of the big picture.

James, "de Boy"

2008-07-26T14:27:00.003+02:00

...doing his thing.

Recording "Accidentally"

2008-07-26T14:19:00.003+02:00

Pimping the bass for that deep old school sound.

Today we are working on "Accidentally", a song we never rehearsed before. It is kind of a puzzle game, putting all the pieces together. Let's hope we don't get lost.

James and Sam are working hard to catch the right sound on disk.