Thursday, June 28, 2007

E.T on bass & growling vocals




Cool afternoon o studio today; we got Nuno recording is low vocals on 'Racing the Hours' and the bass intro for 'Outside In'...Nuno on the pic with his E.T left hand pose...
We spent the whole afternoon mixing the demo tracks and we scheduled the July/August period for the studio, there will be plenty of activity at Forgotten Suns' camp!

cheers
Rick

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Vocal recordings




Another nice end of the day recording vocals, Paulo is delivering some amazing takes and we're upgrading the recordings day after day. Today we had 2 beatiful guests on studio who helped setting up an even higher mood on studio, thank you Rita and Xana;)

We ended up the session by listening the instrumental section of 'Outside In' and we left the studio with a big smile on our faces...;)
more posts tomorrow,
cheers
Rick

Monday, June 25, 2007

Mixings & Recordings for demo


We've been on studio all day mixing and recording vocals later in the afternoon. We're on our way to get the best sound; Paulo is getting the vocals done and sounding great!

10 hours on studio, I'm a bit tired so I'll post more reports tomorrow,


cheers

Rick

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Heavy Fuel - keyboard production




Just a quick note to tell you we've been on studio the whole weekend producing the keyboards. Mike is doing a very intensive and amazing work, it's without a doubt the best keyboards layers and solos we ever had on Forgotten.
I did some re-recordings on 'Ouside In' guitars, now they're breathing has we like;)

More work on studio tomorrow...




Friday, June 22, 2007

Dream Theater & Studio











Last Wednesday was a great night at Porto’s Coliseum with Dream Theater and their Chaos in Motion Tour – opening act by Riverside.
I travelled early in the afternoon with Mike so we got plenty of time to talk, to enjoy the ride, and of course, we analysed all our work so far with Forgotten Suns. We had time to talk about the new songs we plan to write: the concepts and aesthetics. It’s such a fantastic moment to plant the seeds for the new songs, to talk about an idea and to have the perception that soon it will be done…probably better than you thought it would ever be…
It’s great to know we’re still focused after such a long period on studio and that we share the same goals in life, both musically and personally.

Returning to studio, more precisely today (22nd June), I spent the morning finishing the lyrics for “Mind Over Matter” and “The News” while Sam was doing some mixes in his drum tracks – which are sounding great by the way!

In the afternoon I re-recorded the rhythm guitar for “Outside In”. The first recordings were sounding a bit muddy and flat so Mike and I got the job done in a pair of hours.
We will be on studio tomorrow and Sunday.

“Up the irons!!!”

Rick

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Lyrics and Demo


Today I got earlier in the studio. I felt inspired and got some time to write the lyrics for 'The News' a fantastic new track we're writing. Actually, this song was almost written in December 06 but we never ended it and never had the lyrics finished too...just the chorus, which I also wrote myself at the time.

Today it was almost completed and lyrically sounds huge. It's very easy to write when there's deep concepts and such good music behind; I think this track is one of the highlights of the new album. When Mike arrived on studio I saw his eyes shining with the power of the song, he loved the lyrics by the way!

We spent our time recording keyboards and doing production on 'Outside In', we will eventually re-record the guitars on this track during Friday morning to get an even better sound.

Paulo is still recovering from the flu which affected him during this week so he wasn't on studio today.

We also had time to jam some new ideas for the instrumental section of Doppelganger, this will be a kick ass song my friends!!!;)


cheers

Rick


Monday, June 18, 2007

Studio writings


Another cool day at the studio, Sam and I were listening all tracks, we took notes of weaker spots and changes to improve the songs.

We did our schedule until December 07 and there's a lot to do at Forgotten Suns camp... Some surprises for the old fans until the end of the year;)

Tomorrow Mike, Paulo and I will be on studio recording vocals for 'Racing the Hours'. Mike will be doing some keyboard recordings too and testing new production samples.
I will post some late night pics,
cheers
Rick

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Recording vocals and keyboards


We have been on studio recording Paulo's vocals for 'Racing the Hours'; his performance was full of power and feeling, there's no doubt that this demo will sound great - unfortunately he was with the flu since yesterday and his voice was not 100% so we decided to move the sessions for Tuesday.

We spent some time around the new equipment, got time for some EQ on guitars and then we finished the day by recording the last keyboard parts for 'Outside In', there's also new riffs and chords from Mike on this track.


On our way home I was speaking to Mike about the new ideas, the new songs and he enjoyed it a lot. We will be doing around 14/16 songs total until July 30th.



Friday, June 15, 2007

Day at the studio & interview at Prog-pt.com







Today Sam and I went to the studio to listen the keyboard production and to give a review on the already written songs for some re-arrangement ideas.
We have great upgrade ideas on Doppelganger, Pinpoints, Mind Over Matter and The News.

There's great musical ideas and concepts for the new songs...


Tomorrow and Sunday Paulo will be on studio recording his vocal lines for the demo, I'll post some pics here at the end of the day...

cheers,

P.S: There's an new interview with Paulo and myself for Prog-Pt, interview by Mr.Spulit: http://www.prog-pt.com/












Monday, June 11, 2007

Keyboards & production




After a few days off we're back for another report.
Mike spent the whole weekend recording the keyboard parts for 'Outside In' and 'Racing the Hours', then we'll be on studio by tomorrow to listen it.
We also will test new recording equipment (an upgrade for the studio) by recording Paulo's voice, he as been working his parts and for what I listen for ‘Phenotype’ he’s doing it great!

We preview the end of this demo during next week - with the mixing and all the production that this demo will include (bios, photos, videos, band interview, etc) it will be very complete. Part of it will be available on our Myspace website (www.myspace.com/fsuns ) - our apologies for the long period without the official website, we are doing our best to return on the net with a new layout and high quality.

We will officially start the 3rd period of writing next Monday 18th June 2007.
I had some time to think about new concepts since we will write 3 or 4 completely new tracks.
We are also ready to re-write some parts from the previous tracks so they can sound
ok to our ears and fit in this album; we are doing lyrics and we’re inspired for the writing days that will soon arrive.

More posts soon,
Cheers
Rick

Monday, June 04, 2007

Guitar Day






















Another busy day at the studio recording guitars for our new demo, there's many new details and the music is sounding superb.There's more space between instruments and yet without mixings and production sounds good. We recorded from 14:00 to 21:00, my brain completely evaporated,even though Mike and I left the studio really happy with the results!!!(hell yeah).
Next days will be to record the remaining keyboards on 'Outside In' and 'Racing the Hours'.

more posts soon,
cheers
Rick

Sunday, June 03, 2007

Bass tracks - Racing the Hours







Saturday, 2nd July during the afternoon: the scheduled date to record Nuno's bass tracks for ‘Racing the Hours’.
It was one of the hottest days in the last few months so we felt all a little tired though we managed the recordings and performance as usual.
The bass sound is better than ever, both Nuno and Mike got a fantastic sound by
tweaking the compressors and pre-amps in a specific way…also Nuno’s technique helped a lot for the final result.
Nuno re-invented the bass for the bridge and there will be a new guitar approach for this section.
All bass tracks are recorded for this new demo.

More posts during the week,
regards
Rick