Almost four months since we have made a public appearance, sort of feels like we ought to get out from our hibernation back to where the sun is. Well, the shoes are being polished, shirts are ironed and what's most important we've spent this whole time writing new songs. Africa -sessions that are somehow awkwardly reported on our domestic ”finglish” are the latter recordings of the two 3-4 song demo preparations for the upcoming task of making an album.
After pimping up with the applegear we've managed to slowly move up in quality from the 4-track c-casette mastepieces through mp3 players to a new headaching comfroting life with garageband. It can do 8 tracks simultaneously, but we can't find the way to record several takes on one track as in protools, so it still is a ”live & learn” for us in the painful way.
So Africa -sessions started out with 7 tracks of drums and bass. Having a killer party celebrating our drummers visit to africa the day before did cause minor shaking, but gladly did not affect any playing skills (I guess we're not on that high level of playing yet). The songs we worked on are currently under the following code names:
Veterans
Superman (orkku)
Hold on
digidii
All four we're recorded pretty tight, but ”veterans” 'caused some wtf experience as we figured we've been playing the song with authenic bpm changes and believe me, garageband was definately not the tool for us to operate that thing. Though we gave it a thought to have the whole thing reprogrammed later on, we settled for the recording only to find how the electrodrums we were thinking of became impossible for us to work on. So it turned out as a quite an upbeat song, with a majestic David-Bowie-backing-vocal thing. I suggest you sit before listening to it, as it'll knock you out 100% guaranteed.
Ever since the battles on our first EP, some of our creativity has puffed out sideproducts that are essential for avoiding different stages of headaches and extrasweat. One of the things I'm definately proud of is the ”scarflistening”, then again I do believe that practicality (?) creates esthetics.
The album is called ”Panthéon” among us for now. I guess we have a thing for ”big things” going on. We have a studio booked for summer, but we're planning to release a single or two before June, we still really don't know what's happening with all the buzz in our ears. But what's important is that we've got new ladies waiting for their nights to shine and some special live dancing activity by Ville Tikka, which all sums to the fact that our few live shows are worth checking out if you're intrested in what we sound like now. Confirmed events are:
21.5 Kuudes linja w/ Lady Escape (who are also coming back from the studio)
1.7 Lepakkomies w/ Delay Trees & Kaskas (Trees have just released Soft Construction EP, which is something you should get your hands on)
Oh yeah, we met a Polish heavy metal band ”ŚMIERĆ” during our sessions, they we're friendly enough to pass us a photo:
While waiting for all the new stuff to emerge, you can visit following places:
http://www.myspace.com/delaytrees
http://www.myspace.com/ladyescape
http://www.myspace.com/rubikband (their upcoming second album out for listening)
http://www.myspace.com/theteamlove (or especially a band called ”a weather”)
And we'll continue climbing up the ladders.
All the love and a pleasant spring awakening for you guys and gals, see you soon!
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-Eugene
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