Thursday, September 3, 2009

Finishing in the studio

We´re hoping that tomorrow will see the final day of mixing the EP "The Waldemar Thranes Debacle". That´s 27 days for 5 tracks. We´ve learned an incredible amount in that period and we are a much better band for the experience. We´ve also managed to get quite a few gigs lined up including Mono on Monday September 19th, which I´m assured is quite a coup.

We´ve spent the last two days mixing and making editorial decisions for a song called "Murilo I Love You". It was arguably the biggest challenge for us to get MILY to a place we were satisfied with and after much wizardry from Vegard, our producer, some quality decision making from the lads and some input from a special guest, I think we´ve achieved that. We asked a fella called Eivind Schou, ex-Serena Maneesh to play some violin for us and he delivered something that hardly sounds like a violin but does a fantastic job for the song. You´ll hear it soon enough but that monstrous noise that goes through the whole thing is his work.

In other news, we think we´ve got a new bass player (Rudi will be playing the electric guitar. And very well I might add), we think we might have found someone to do photography for us called Tor - check his website here www.tkorset.com. Also gigs galore.

The next big step is to make promotional copies of the EP to send out to people. We´re still not sure whether to self release the record or to form some kind of partnership with one of the many, excellent indie labels here in Oslo. Self releasing would be a great thing to do because we´d get to set up our own company, deal with a lot of the business end of things personally and learn a huge amount in the process. Of course, it´s a lot of hard work and we also want to devote a lot of our time to writing and developing as musicians. Other people with the experience and expertise in this industry that we don´t have yet would undoubtedly be an asset too. Whether we end up doing it with someone else or not, we´re coming up with ideas for how to best get into the hands of people who can actually make decisions and help us. You´ll be the first to see the results.

Live long and prosper

Casa Murilo

2 comments:

  1. Cool! Can't wait for the Mono gig. Well done, guys!

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  2. WOW. thats great! Mono. - nice. BTW - I think you messed up the date, Its Monday 21th I assume? Jolly-good.okidoki, snakkes

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