About recording an album and other things…

I was telling you a couple of days ago about the fact that we (the band) intend to record a few songs to put them together on an album. I have already been to a recording studio in Bucharest to speak to the guy there, who’s the keyboard player of a quite popular band here in Romania, Spin where a buddy of mine plays the guitar. He actually pointed us to this studio, they also record there. Of course, when it is your studio it would be strange to go to the neighbor…

Me and the guys spoke about recording this album and finding a record company to produce it/publish it and here our ideas went apart…Me and the other guitar player wanted to contact a producer to put his/her mark on the record since a bit more experience never hurts while the lead singer doesn’t want to hear about it. And I really know why: we had 4 such experiences with producers over the years and everybody wanted a different thing, in the end doing nothing but making us lose our direction and this is bad… You actually need a direction, one of your own and stick to it.

So we got to the idea to build a website (doh!) and publish what we record there, on YouTube and other similar sites and forget everything about recording companies. Original, huh? I guess nobody did it before, right?!!

I guess making yourself known is what really matters after all, if you sign with a record label that does nothing but keep you in a closet, doesn’t help you too much, right? Better to make yourself known to the public using other media channels such as the internet. And if you manage to come up with a few good songs you could be spotted and signed by somebody.

The fact is that we really want to do this since at a moment we took kind of a break, then re-united with new forces, new gear and started to make music again.

We decided to cover also a few good songs that we like and this is not something that we used to do, I can tell you in the past we only covered 1 or 2 songs, it was all about our songs.

When we reunited we decided to cover a bunch of songs to glue together again and I can’t say it hurt. By the way, Costin, the lead singer just sent me an SMS, he is an club where a buddy plays and he says the atmosphere is great and tries to arrange a show for next week. Now, in a club you definitively need covers…

Also, since we decided to record something, I came up with 2 new songs that are not bad at all, seems I didn’t lose it completely

So, I just wanted to post that here so you know I didn’t completely vanished…

I just have things to do but I need to get in shape soon!

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