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?

Day 9 - last day at LaChapelle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Early hours

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!