Bitten by an ape

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Video, Chapter II – The Grouse Lodge sessions

There you go: video number two, again put together by the multi-talented Loz.
From us to you, with tender loving care.
Bitten by an ape during the mixing sessions, with guests in the background here and there.
The soundtrack is an excerpt from Line or Cycle, featured on our upcoming album (with bits of A political song at [...]

One week later…

I just couldn’t listen to those songs any more, for a few days :)
I’m ok now, thanks. And the songs sound good.
Pheeeew, satisfaction.
Here are a few other pics of our stay at Grouse Lodge, featuring the infamous pair, the Stripey Boys, and our very special guests: Shirleysaid.
We had a real Shirley in studio two, by [...]

Mixing day three

Shirleysaid were here today, all the way from Italy via London, where they’ve been making contact with major labels. It was great to spend some time together in a very different place from our hometown in Italy: I think they were quite impressed by Grouse Lodge. The poor lads have had to listen to just [...]

Mixing day two

 
 
 
 
 
Soft bed,open windows on the greengrey night. And hens…
We are slightly ahead of schedule, with five out of eight songs we’ve worked on, and yet today we are a bit more relaxed.
Rewired, Orange, A dream or two, Digital care and A political song are almost ready to go: impressive! Of course disaster, or the possibility [...]

Mixing day one

To find this place! Vrooom up, vrooom down…no, no, no..was it left there?…right? With every turn the road gets narrower, the vegetation more aggressively leaning over the lane, the asphalt less compact under the tires. Hens and dogs welcome me as I slowly drive through the gate towards a couple of aged stone buildings. I [...]

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…the awareness that we are, in this network, dots crossed by numberless lines; that we wear and present to others different masks at different times – to the point that our sense of identity withers away. The creation of our own escapist universe, which is not less uncertain than reality, but delusionally more manageable. Finally, our relationship with technology, at the same time useful and threatening.…

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