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Nanoworld guitars

Nuno and I spend all day recording "Nunoworld"...ops, 'Nanoworld':)
Linx wrote all the lyrics in the afternoon and again it's a great vocal work, hard one to sing...
At night Mike and I finished 'Flesh & Bones'.

Today it's another recording marathon, great!:)

Phenotype

I was recording 'Racing the Hours' with Nuno until 15 o'clock; then we jumped into 'Nanoworld' drum tracks in the afternoon and finally at night Linx recorded amazing vocals for 'Phenotype' - we're on our way to a monster album!

Magic path - 18 December report

Yesterday Mike, Sam and I jammed on 'Mind Over Matter' ideas - we're still inspired after the 'Nanorworld' experience; we nailed an intro very quickly, then we picked the bass riff from Nuno and Linx' stuff and got a basic structure that we recorded to work later on...it's another great track on the making.

In the afternoon Mike recorded his parts for 'Phenotype' and for 'Flesh & Bones' - tremendous organ sound from his Oasys for the chorus and final section!!!
We got out of the studio very late, so here's my morning post and I'm on my way to the studio again.

Final Week 2006 - writing

There's already a Christmas feeling in the air and everyone shopping for the celebration night 24 to 25 December...well, at least our wifes were:) We've been deeply focused on the studio since 11th November and we have a personal deadline at 22 December (we have 5 more days of writing ahead).
This week we will record everything that's still missing, write 'Mind Over Matter' and maybe even another track...

Here goes the tracklist so far:
-Racing the Hours
-Doppleganger
-Flashback
-Outside In
-Pinpoints
-Phenotype
-Flesh & Bones
-Nanoworld
-The News
-The Hill
-An Outer of Body Experience

-Mind Over Matter?
-.....?:)

Nanoworld - final chords written today

Just a few minutes ago the final chords of Nanoworld were written!
The song has about 12 minutes lenght and 6 of them are one of the best instrumental extravaganza we made so far...
Mike and I went to the studio in the morning to work the unisson section, then Sam joined us in the afternoon to make it until the end.
We all left the studio with a big smile on our faces;)

Invited Guest - Nano instrumental

Today we were visited by Mr. José Carlos Maltez our dear friend and the webmaster at Burning Suns Fan Club(www.burning-suns.com).
He was the first to listen the new material we wrote since 11th November and the first once to see how we develop our ideas on the spot - thank you JC for your patience today:)

Sam, Mike and I jammed on Nanoworld riffs and got some cool stuff going on; tomorrow Mike and I will start working the guitar/keyboard arrangements for this one.

At the end of the day Joax and I recorded 'Phenotype' guitars (with JC listening) and also 'Flesh & Bones' - only the guitar solos still missing on this song.

Mind over Matter - first impression

Yesterday we had another pair of busy hours at the studio; in the morning Sam was doing the drums for 'Racing the Hours' (one of my fave) and we made some improvement on 'Phenotype' structure, now sounds even better.
I got some time with Joax to make some minor changes on the mixing for 'The Hill'.
In the afternoon, Nuno and Sam recorded their parts for 'Phenotype' demo, it's one of the most catchy songs of the album - without a doubt!:)
Nuno and Linx recorded their ideas for 'Mind Over Matter' before leaving and then Sam, Mike and I got really inspired and worked the chorus plus one of the riffs for the instrumental section - another high FS moment my friends:)

Tomorrow there will be more posts with crazy pics, don't miss it...

Said and done - Phenotype (Garden of Creation)

3 hours around the new riff, some glue here and there including the time to pause and reflect about it, also to record the basic idea while we were writing and performing, a final mental stretch to make a progressive approach for the end of the song and...it was done.

The small idea that Mike played on piano in the previous day gave us another powerful mini-track with 3:50 lenght but with an incredibly 'Mr.Heavy meets Mr.Cool' energy...Linx is now developing the lyrics for this track in the next few days.

Today we will have the mix of 'The Hill' ready has a demo and we will be developing more instrumental for 'Nanoworld'. There will be more recordings for Flesh & Bones eventually.

I'll make a late night post with the de-briefing, c'ya there folks.

An Outer of Body Experience

Yesterday we jammed on the instrumental section of 'Nanoworld' and got more steps ahead in the song, it's really hard to play because the cold weather frozens our fingers...fortunately our ideas & riffs are colder than ever:) - Nuno on the image...freezing!

Great work from all members on 'An Outer of Body Experience' - this track has the vibe of tracks like 'Routine'(Fiction Edge album) or 'The Final Sentence'(Snooze album) but it has all the ingredients of a classic Forgotten Suns piece of music for the future - deep lyrics, great singing; melodic chords and out of control mood for guitar solo; high quality production on keyboards à la Mike 'Merlin', solid bass and a bass solo with a jazzy edge and splendid work of Mr.JC Samora on drums - fantastic tom section between the 7/4 intro!
A word for the brave José Machado 'Joax' for doing a great recording and mixing work on the last few days of recordings.

While I was closing my guitar case I heard a great sequence of notes from Mike, who was just walking his fingers on his grey beast...immediately I told him to repeat the last notes and I believed we have now the basics to another great track - we both agree that it would fit the concept for a new track called Phenotype(Garden of Creation).

Let's see what today brings...

Time for a snack - don't disturb (band working)

Another nice day of creativity flowing on the studio, we jammed on 'The News' instrumental section and now we have a good block of solos (keyboard vs. guitar) and a fine link to Mike's chords to end it. When our heads are hurting at the end of the day it means we had a good time and we're on the right path:)
Well, you can see us on the 'pause for our little snack' - yes we spend all days until sunset and after on the studio. Also Linx writing more lyrics for 'An Outer of Body Experience' - great lyrics my friend!:)

sunday report - a new week begins

Yesterday we didn't jammed because I was the only one at the studio, the guys couldn't make it so I used my time to listen all recorded ideas and work some new riffs out.
The instrumental section for 'The News' will be improved, right now it only consists of a keyboard structure so it need some hours of writing (guitar, bass, drums) to be perfect.

A new week begins, it's 8:32 a.m and I'm on my way to the studio...we have until 22nd December to finish the writings for this album.

I'm sure that this album cuts with the sound from our previous albums; it's more 'in your face' and 90% of it it's prog-metal attitude and sound. Everyone is doing a great work and we're almost near the target (14 songs) so then we can have enough room to decide which ones fit better.
This album will be a thick wall of sound and it's not a concept (that's the 1st cut with the past).
It will reveal a more personalized band because the sound of tracks like 'Doppelganger', 'Flashback' and 'Racing the Hours' will turn them to be true classics - i'm 100% sure of it!:)

I believe that we will pick the instrumental section for 'Nanoworld' in the morning and record guitars for 'An Outer of Body Experience' (AOBE) at the end of the day.

Sunday at the studio - new ideas

We'll be jamming and preparing work for the following 2 weeks we have left so we can finish the writing process on 22th December. I'll be doing a late night post today with some results
and new ideas.

Recordings

Just a quick note to make a briefing from yesterday's work at the studio: Sam recorded the drums for 'Flesh & Bones' and so did Nuno. Mike recorded keyboards for 'An Outer of Body Experience' this way we have advanced some recording work.
This weekend I'll be on studio with Linx to analyse/record and make more lyrics for the created songs. I'll be working on the guitars for 'Flesh & Bones' and 'Racing the Hours' too.
Next monday we will be writing new material, there's an instrumental section for 'Nanoworld' to be made and there's many riffs for 'Mind Over Matter' that we need to put in order to make a brand new track!

Racing the hours - the demo

A very prolific day at the studio. We started by listening recordings of Nuno and Linx and then we started the hostilities by recording all drum tracks for 'Racing the Hours'. There was also time to mix 'Doppleganger' with Joax doing a great job while Mike was creating some cool riffs to 'Nanoworld' instrumental section. We will re-start the writings next week to get more or less 14 tracks ready (to choose the best ones for the new album) until December 22nd. Sam and I went to a fast food later at night and we had a cool chat about the future songs and what we want to achieve with this album as a band. We have the belief that with the 3rd FS album we will be kicking some ass off:)

Writing

Today Nuno wrote and recorded his bass lines for 'The Hill' and 'An Outer of Body Experience' instrumental/vocal sections.
Mike and Linx are writing and arranging their own parts for the other songs.