Recording with Harm [27 July ’20]
The bass recording session The last time Harm and I were on the phone must have been late 2017. Drums for the Akelei EP had been recorded a few months before and I wanted to keep the project going. That…
The bass recording session The last time Harm and I were on the phone must have been late 2017. Drums for the Akelei EP had been recorded a few months before and I wanted to keep the project going. That…
The viola recording session For those of you who have been following this blog for the last couple of months, you know that finding a viola player for this recording took a long time. I sent out emails to producers…
The violin recording session It was another fruitful and pleasant afternoon at Studio Moskou today. One more important step in completing the recording for this EP which has been so long in the making: the recording of the violin parts!…
An update on the EP recording progress (or: the satisfactory conclusion to a very rigid search) In the previous update, where I said recording violin was to be the next step, I didn’t actually know at the time who would…
What’s happening with Akelei in 2019 Hello! Misha here. It’s been a while since this blog’s last update. Well, it’s about time then. Something’s in the works here at Akelei HQ and that something is a three-song EP. It will…
There was another short entry about an additional vocal session together with Ward but somehow it never appeared on the blog and I didn’t feel like re-typing it. So here’s the final update on the recordings: it’s done. It’s been…
Now that all the drums and guitars are recorded, we moved on to singing last weekend. For me, this is the hardest part of the recording process. I’ve never thought of myself as a good singer nor have I ever…
The previous week we didn’t manage to record ALL the guitar parts so last Friday Pascal came back and we finally nailed those last bits. Whew. It took us four days in total to record the guitars for this album….
So, last week we laid down all the drum tracks. This weekend we are recording guitars. Quintijn and I had a successful session on Friday and managed to record rhythm parts to four songs in five hours. Today we finished…
Ladies and gentlemen, we are recording! We dedicate this weekend to laying down the drum tracks for our first album. The plan is to record 6 songs over the course of several weekends at Independent Recordings, a small but professional…
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