Slim Void Album Log – August
Like every month you get the latest information from Slim Void's Ronny himself about the ongoing album production on Chapel Studios and this time especially about the consumption of cold English beer:
The last weekend in August saw our second and final pre production weekend with Dan Swift. He came over to Trondheim to work with us in our shabby rehearsal room in the old German bunker of Dora. Despite having to stay there for 3 days in a gloomy room with no windows and nearly no oxygene, we managed to knock out a couple of new songs and finalize most of the arrangements and loose ends of the old ones.
In a vague haze of sleep deprivation and reluctant exitement, we turned up at the airport Monday morning, 31st of August to get our bums on the plane to Gatwick. Final destination Chapel studios in Lincolnshire. About 13 hours of take offs, landings and sweating on the English motorway later, we arrived at the studio, far out in the English countryside. It's actually an old brick church converted into a modern days studio used by Arctic Monkeys and Darkness, to name a few.
Surrounded by lush gardens, ponds and endless fields, it's truly a great place to be situated for making our album.
Studio work however includes loads of waiting. Reminds me of my days in the army. At the time of writing, 9pm, we're still tweaking the drum sound. Or more correctly, the producer and his perfectionist engineer is. It's been going on for the last 7 hours now, so the rest of us are starting to look more and more to the 6 bags of beer we managed to carry out of the local grocery store. The cans are getting cold and I'm getting thirsty. hm....
Hopefully and quite likely, we will be able to get some tracks down tomorrow when the sound is done. We will post updates, pictures, videos, sounds and reports from our English experience frequently at the Slim Void facebook site.
But now I will open a cold one. Cheers!
Cheers guys, well-deserved.
What happened so far:
In July issue you read about the first days after 50k and choosing the producer.
In August issue Ronny reported about gig on Bussekail Festivalen and rehearsing with Dan Swift.
Btw, the photo show Anders at work in the studio.
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