Mikey's return

The key wizard Miguel Valadares, a happy return to FS home.
Last time Mike performed live with Forgotten Suns was at the remarkable Guimaraes Art Rock 2001.

A Great Night

A great debut for Nuno and Mike, a fantastic night for Forgotten Suns...on the photo Nuno and his red bass roaring, we had lots of fun
last night.
The line-up was Pay the Price, Senses, Strange Affair with the Night, Struggle, Flashback(new theme), Betrayed(extended version).

Reharsals

On the last few days we spend our time reharsing the line-up of songs for the S.Alquimista show (29th June). We've been deeply focused on writing new music since 8th May, so now we had to give a few extra days to get our hands on the 'older' stuff.
It's a real pleasure to play our thing with this group of musicians, we're happy to meet again our followers on a venue and we're really curious about all the surprises we have prepared for this one:)

Tip: don't miss this show!

Insideouted

Today we spend our afternoon recording the guitars tracks for 'Outside In(side)' . It's sounding pretty good and we're still on recording process. Only the solos we're left out for the next session. I took some time do double the rithym tracks on perfection with my 'Chaotic Bottom' 2nd layer of distortion and to get over all those complicated 7/4 sections, so I thanx Jo and Linx for their patience and for making them loose the Spain vs Tunisia (3-1 guys!:)

Stormy Friday

Many lightnings and thunders on yesterday's afternoon. We spend our time on studio reharsing the setlist for the Alquimista show and we listened the pre-production recordings. Next week there will be more guitars, bass and keyboards to be recorded.

Have a nice weekend

Recording guitars

15th June. Today while England was beating Trinidad Tobago on the World Cup (2-0), Jo and I were recording the guitars for 'Pinpoints'. Once again we were very happy with the overall sound recorded and we made some experimentantion with some tremolo effects and feedbacks from my cabinets.
Linx joined us on the afternoon. There will be more guitar and bass recordings tomorrow.

Here's a pic of yesterday' session.

Rain and Solos

Rainy morning in Lisboa. Yesterday was a busy day at the studio. Jo and I went there on the morning and recorded 'Flashback' guitars, I'm very proud of my new gear it really sounds amazing!!! Mike, Nuno and James (Linx) arrived on the afternoon and while there Mike recorded some blasting solos for 'Outside In(side)' theme. All solos were fantastic, he leaved the best takes as an idea.
Then I picked my 7th string guitar for 'Pinpoints', it took some time to make the verses section because it's not an easy structure and we want to achieve perfection. I had the spiritual help of 'Michael Merlin' with his incense smokes and his 'vodoo' dances along with Nuno...James and I laughing all the way.

Today the remaining 'Pinpoints' parts and 'Outside In(side) will be recorded.

Recordings - the pre production

Yesterday Sam, Linx and Jo were on studio recording the drums for 'Flashback' and 'Pinpoints'. It's the first steps at the pre-production for the album and Sammy did it sounding great!
Later in the afternoon Mike and I arrived on studio. While Linx was working on his new Helicon fx processor we did an upgrade to the final section of 'Pinpoints' with a very interesting modulation for the chorus and I managed a solo for the fade out approach we'll be doing for this one.

More work for today,

regards

Pre-production

Hi, today we got our time on doing the pre-production for the album (what we composed up to the date). We're recording almost everything direct except the vocals and we're making sure that everything is working properly. We also discuss a bit some concepts for a new song to work on next.

More posts during the week

regards

Recordings

2nd June 2006. Today we were reaharsing for the Alquimista show and Nuno recorded his bass lines for 'Outside In(side) theme, sounding tight and punchy with the guitars & drums!
As promised some days ago, here are some pictures taken at the studio while the band is composing the III album. In a near future there will be some more photos and videos; we expect to have our official website working during this week and we will have it updated with even more info about the recordings.

Have a nice weekend

Mike and 'JoAxe' at the studio

Sam and Nuno at the studio

Linx and Nuno - Solo sections

Today Sam and I were arranging the solos section(keys and guitar) for Racing the Hours. It came even better and yet more progressive than what we imagined:)
James Linx and Nuno arrived after that and we were trying to figure out how we could arrange the guitar and bass parts for the 'ressurection' section of Outside In(side); it's a part with many 7/4 and it ends on a 6/4 with our riff (it's an unisson) being completly broken...well, it sounds realy good. 'Joaxe', our tech, is a very peaceful and calm person...thank you my friend for the countless takes we needed for this one. Linx helped us by discovering the secret turn to solve this section.

More work for tomorrow.