What a day!

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

The master himself directing the string section ...

Friday recordings done!

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

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!

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!

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

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



Lovely boys.

Day 3

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

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...

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?

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:

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!

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

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

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

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!

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

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?