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Day 30

Last day of our production in Karlsdorf at the House Of Audio. Well, it was a fantastic production. Thanks to all our guests on this record. The work itself was really relaxed and we had lots of funny moments (which we will share in podcasts and on the new cd).

In 10 days vocals will be recorded in Trosis studio in Berlin. I won't be there because I don't need to (I will be teaching in those days) - but I will be there when we mix the songs.

We all are very proud of our record which will be released in august 2009.

Day 29

Julia (a very good friend of mine) came over to lay down some backing-vocals (choirs) for some of the songs. We played in several bands together (and we do if our scedules allows it) since 2002.

She did a fantastic job which puts some song-parts in new directions. The band had lots of fun when she told them old stories.

Day 28

More things we tried with other instruments. Some new ideas are good other things were better in the original form. We have the time to try things out which is really great. In the evening, after some more listening and recording sessions, we had a really delicious BBQ together.

Day 27

After finishing all things that were planned to do here in the studio we had listening sessions today. Trosi premixes every track and we all listen to them to check if there were some mistakes or to get more ideas how something could / should sound. Some of the whistles were replaced with others in the evening.

Day 26

Today we finished all our instrumental tracks that were planned in 30 days here at the House Of Audio in Karlsdorf. In the upcoming days we will experiment other instruments for some lines and I will finish some programmings I did in the demo versions. In our free time (when nobody needs you) some of us do sport in the morning or prepair melodies on other instruments.

Day 25

We finished pipes today which means that we have only one track bouzouki and some tracks hurdy-gurdy left to do. I think we will finish the recording-process tomorrow (it will depend on Falks paste ;-)

This evening we rehearsed some new songs for the upcoming tour ...

Day 24

We began the day with whistles which Cordoban recorded on six songs. The rest was quite usual - recording, recording and more recording, while El Silbador learned new instruments.

Day 23

Filming-day! We had cameras here to record a "making-of" and interviews. Meanwhile Samoel, El Silbador and Falk had to record their instruments.

Day 22

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I was out this morning to play a brunch-concert with my coverband "Diesel Vanilla". When I was back Michael Popp from the band "Qntal" was here to record something for one song. It was great to see him working and to work with him. This was a great afternoon which ended in the evening with a very good meal made by our Lasterbalk (Schnitzel).

Day 21

Our pace in recording is very good and the results are great. Beside all our work here we do a lot of documentation and we started to prepair some new songs with drums, guitar and bass.

Day 20

We are hard at work for our new cd. With lots of space in the whole studio everybody can work on his own, prepair his instrumental parts or just relax a bit after work is done. Here you can see some impressive hobbies - Samoel enters the billiard-table to get the best shot and Falk rests whole filming himself.