Flu anyone?

Hello folks,

it seems that there are some virus out there in the last days, Mike and I got sick since yesterday though Mike has already recovered and is on studio right now recording his last parts of 'Outside In' and 'Nanoworld'. I'm still at home with my guitars and some interesting National Geographic and Canal Historia to relax and recover fast. I believe I can close my guitar recordings for this album on Sunday and also some back vocals for 'An Outer Body Experience' and 'Mind Over Matter'.

Here goes 2 pics of Nuno 'Strap' while recording the instrumental section of 'Outside In' and Mike on the same instrumental section...

best

7hawk

Solos & Adrenaline vs Perfection

Hello folks,

The last 2 days at the studio have been of pure adrenaline. Mike and I were 12 hours each day recording the keyboard parts for the instrumental section of 'Outside In', recording guitars for the same track, improvising solos for 'Racing the Hours' and fighting against the adrenaline of soloing at 180 bpm and get it all in perfection. It's amazing how things work when you want to make the most difficult and technical part sound like a bad ass pro player: you got to overcome the adrenaline, went beyond the task and get it done as easy as sweaming the sea of traquility...'Racing' solos are the fastest we ever did in our discography so far.

Today Nuno has already recorded his parts for 'Outside In' and Mike will record some final sections of 'Nanoworld'. Our target is to have all recordings done until this friday and then 1 week more to do final editings before send 5 more tracks to Mr.Daniel Flores in Stockholm.

regards
7hawk

Outside In

23rd May going to 24th...

In the same day that Daniel Flores confirmed that he has received the package with the first group of 4 songs in perfect condition, I'm doing another post on the making of blog! Today I have some pictures of this week at the studio: Thursday and Friday (22nd & 23rd).

We are recording the last track for the album - Outside In - which in fact was the first track to be written for it!:) Yesterday we did some bass incursions on the new instrumental section. For those who were at Aula Magna and Europarque and still keep some memories of this song, I can assure you that it developed into a incredible sick track. It has the longest and powerful musicianship we aimed since we decided to write this album, it's a very complete piece of music: has a huge concept, groovy riffs, great vocals, tremendous bass lines, hot solos from both guitar and keys, a big unisson, full of odd signatures on drums...what else can I say? Yes, it's a lot of work and gives us big headaches at the end of day...

Today Mike and I were at the studio and we finalized the keyboard parts for the unisson then we ended up the day by record all guitars for the instrumental, after that we were deadly tired. While driving home, we look like kids who did they're first cool song ever:)

I found some time to upload some pics (sorry for the low quality) but here goes:

. Myself at the studio and my Amsterdam Cherry 7 string before recording Outside In instrumental
. Mike looking at a music catalogue, cooking some plans for his live setup...
. Nuno and Mike recording the keyboard unisson
. Some scores and tablature of the big unisson
. Mike and his K2661 today on studio
. Panoramic guitar view, my Whammy was on the box today...
. Me while recording the instrumental section of Outside In

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Some pics of the last days at the studio, we've been powered by Red Bull as an exciter for the solos, Mike on the 2nd and 3rd pics recording the end section of 'News' (I still can see his forearm popping once in a while) and myself with my new Whammy pedal yet in the box...

Back Vocals

Busy weekend at the studio, yesterday in the afternoon Mike, Sam, Nuno and I did the back vocals for Dopplegänger...it was the funniest moment since we start recording, there's a sound file I will upload in a future post that best describes what happened...(lol)
Later at night we went into Sammy's home studio at we listened the drum tracks which are amaaaazing to our ears. From that point, we're sure that Mr.Flores will have enough quality material to cook a fabulous mix and mastering.

Today Mike and I were in the studio producing the samples for 'Racing the Hours', 'Flashback' and 'An Outer Body Experience' - first tracks will follow from Lisboa to Stockholm during this week and we will continue our recording and production process for the last tracks until the end of the month.

best
7hawk

The News Today

Just a quick post from the studio (I brought my portable to work with Mike), we're recording the instrumental end section of "News"...seems like his forearms are increasing with the resistance and strenght he needs to get that section done...kind of Popeye:)

Yesterday we did another long studio section recording bass tracks, guitar solos, vocals, back vocals and samples. Be prepared for a great surprise...

best
7hawk

Solos, Vocals and Samples

Another long run at the studio during yesterday, we've been very busy recording solos, vocals, bass lines and today we'll make some production for 'News', 'Mind Over Matter' and 'Racing the Hours' with sound samples and Reason 4 loops.... "the fight goes on":)


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7hawk

58 days

Yep, the title of the post is the actual number of days we took so far to record and produce the new album!
It's been a long and meticulous process. 9 tracks on 65 min of the most progressive and prolific music we did ever!
We've been recording and editing drum tracks, doubling guitar layers, improvising solos, recording bass lines, adding tons of multi-keyboard sounds and recording vocals. It's been a long process but we're quite pleased with the results achieved so far when tracks are so 'naked' yet so beautiful:)

There are many episodes I can't post on time because we're on studio over 12 hours a day sometimes and we felt like a bless when we hit our beds but, I was amazed with the keyboards of 'Racing the Hours' one of my fave tracks - it took me 7 hours with Mike to make it happen though it made me think how genius this guy is with his keyboard sounds - I love this song!

The first tracks will travel to Sweden in mid May while we finish the remaining of the album, we are very proud of work with Mr.Daniel Flores - Sound vs Science Studios in Stockholm to mix and with Mr.Mats Lindfors for the mastering...this will surely turn this album into a huge sounding masterpiece.

I will had more posts soon,

best
7hawk