Friday, February 29, 2008
Feeding from music...literally:)
Monday, February 25, 2008
Dopplegänger & News
Today we were a bit tired due to this never ending sequence of writing days; this meant that we just needed a few more hours than the usual to make our creative engines work full power:)
After we make it, we finalized 'Dopplegänger' as I previewed it and I'm happy that this track will have a double solo section with Mike and I shredding the boards...4:00 minute track and my bet for 'the single'.
Then we had 6 hours of writing for 'News'...uff, I have to admit that I arrived home brainless but what we did was something really special, I leave the description for yourselves when you'll listen it - i'm thrilled with this track!!!
It's a piece of music based on Mike's riffs and his "extraordinaire" Korg Oasys, the lyrics are almost finalized and on Thursday this track will be done for sure.
Time to rest now...
best
7hawk
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Schedule
We are sure that tomorrow 'Dopple' will be done, we did most of the writing for it on Saturday's afternoon so tomorrow we will initiate another of the remaining tracks. We expect to close this writing stage in the following 2 weeks (incl. lyrics and experimenting vocal lines) and start recording drum tracks on the first days of March.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Snakepit
On the afternoon, Nuno joined us and we worked around 'Doppelgänger' structure. This is a great single, it has the power of bands like Rammstein or Metallica and the melodic parts are very Joe Satriani- speaking from a guitarist point of view.
Later on our 'Snake' joined us and we had some time to listen and analyze new ideas; it's always great to re-listen our songs in sequence even without all tracks and production made, it reminded us one more time, that this is an album with big balls. We're sure that a new chapter on our lives is being written during these days...
I will upload the photos of today on my next post,
best
7hawk
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Work in progress
today Nuno, Sam and I arrived early in the morning on our studio and I've linked the unison to the last written sections, we did a new scheme of passages and recorded it up to the metronome...152 bpm, by the way;) This track is 9:30 minutes in lenght and has a killer instrumental section, really sick prog track - one of the album's highlights for sure!
On the afternoon, after some pizzas, Sam and I started 'Racing the Hours' clicktracks. Just guitar and drums and the song already kicks ass!
More posts tomorrow,
best
7hawk
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Outside In Instrumental
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Monday, February 18, 2008
Brains on Fire
Friday, February 15, 2008
Claudine
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Home sweet home
Monday, February 11, 2008
Building an album
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Click tracks
Friday, February 08, 2008
Meters
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Progressive massacre...
Just a quick mail to let you know that today was a very prolific day working around 'Outside In' instrumental sections.
We got plenty of riffs and way ahead rhythms for this song, we were totally creative and it was a revealing day: we are on our way to a great progressive album, that's for sure!
More work tomorrow, Friday and Saturday so there will be more posts during the following days.
Here is a pic of us at the end of today's progressive journey...what a fuckin' day!!!!
Monday, February 04, 2008
Midi, Meters and Lyrics
Friday, February 01, 2008
Videos, Interview and Studio works
Hello friends,
yesterday Mike and I were on the FS base to wire all equipment and prepare everything to the pre-production we will be doing during February.
As announced on our website we have chosen Daniel Flores (Sound vs Science Studio) as our mixing engineer and Mats Lindfors (Cutting Room Mastering Studio) so our 3rd album becomes a masterpiece; has everyone who is a prog&metal lover knows, Sweden has been a big factory machine of high quality music productions.
I wanted to work with Daniel since the Snooze album and his works with Mind's Eye are the proof of his qualities both as producer and musician! The Cutting Room has been a place were bands like Rammstein, In Flames, etc have been mastering recently so...all said!
Today I'll leave here some links to Forgotten Suns videos at Aula Magna and the interview I gave for Via Nocturna Radio Show on 30th Nov 2007:
Interview Via Nocturna - 4 parts(portuguese only) : http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=27030451
Mike's Keyboard solo on Senses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R80f9aWJy94
Betrayed End Section : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab03RQWqaT4
The band will be working on studio at high rotation during February, there will be more live dates for 08 to be announced soon...stay tuned!