Calm before the Storm

Okay...now it's really close. I'm talking about few days of recording and fixing vocals. The mixing won't take long, because we have done it quite much "on the run".

I'm sure we're gonna get album fully ready this year. That's the final deadline.

Here's Tom recording some additional percussions.

Album nearly recorded / Old songs@ myspace

Our debut album is nearly recorded! Few song are still in instrumental stage, but while Jami puts the words together and clears his throat, you can expect the roecordings to be finished within month or two. Then come the mixing and mastering part.

I put some old dirty things on our MYSPACE-site. Don't take the Magnitogorsk (Moomin remix) too seriously!

I think there's gona be some new material online soon!

Juha

Going Sgt. Peppers style!

We decided to make it the hard way. We have now recorded some trumpets & accordion (played bv Juha) and one saxophone solo by Veli-Pekka "Veppis" Parkkinen. V-P is part of the famous Astro Can Caravan.

The album still sounds good, even thought Jami has tried to ruin it by singing. Seriously talking: the vocals gonna be much more professional than before. Jami has done some good work with lots of good ideas and melodies.


Have we already talked about the working titles for the songs / song order? Here we go:

1. The Glasswalls
2. The Eastern Front
3. Exit
4. Heart Left to Sevastopol
5. Adult Circus
6. Swimming in the Tar Pit / The Blizzard
7. Then
8. Makyoh

If I would have to make a statement about the releasing date of the album, I would probably say "before next april". The album will be finished at this year, that's for sure. But we need contracts!!

Come back for more!

peas, Juha

Growling bass on tape!

Aku has finished his job! We've got some extra punishing bass tracks ready to tear your audio equipment apart. Seriously talking, Aku did some excellent job with lot of new bass lines and ideas. You should hear this!

For now we have:

1) All the drums
2) All the basses
3) 71,9 % of guitars
4) 14 % of synths
5) 17 % vocals

But it already sounds better than the shit they're playing in finnish radio!

We have very optimistic feeling about the record and we think that the long time we'll spend on recording will be rewarded. The Songs have gone thru some serious changes and sound lot better now. I pretty sure, that someone's going to be interested in our album soon...

Soon you'll get some pictures from the new rehearsal house / project studio which is located in old slaughterhouse in Keljo / JKL. We also say welcome to our sister band Apocalypse Cabaret for we are sharing the same space for now on.

Video footage from session vol 1 - Drrrrums!

Ok folks, here it is!
Quick edit & poor information, but it's still something.
And beware there will be serious "making guitars" episode soon.

Remember the concert next sunday at Lutakko

It's a roller coaster, baby!

The recordings are going well...I think?!

Do you know the feeling when you have recorded or created something for a while and suddenly evertyhing sounds and looks like shit?

For me, it's the same thing everytime. Because I know it happens everytime - I'm trying to calm down. Maybe it's related to creating something new that you're not always sure what you are doing. Maybe I should clean my ears by listening some shitty punk rock or death metal!

Still, comparing these new recordings to our old demo recordings - we are doing fine - that's a promise.

The guitars for the few songs are almost recorded and by my opinion there will be the best guitar sounds we've ever produced.

I'll be back,

Juha

Welcome to the sound

Today we challenged ourselves with creating unique but nice sounding guitar sounds. I think we did something right, but also something wrong (which means we have to go back to record those tracks).

Everything seems allright. There are few quite good hooks and the basis for the good album is already there.

Thanks to Mikko & Hannes with drum engineering - the drums are sounding natural and powerful!

We'll gonna put some video documentary online soon. Beware and remember to love each other.

Peas,
Juha

Something is burning

Yeah, it´s us. We're on fire.
Recording of our album is going great and the boys have been very busy.
We´ve been mostly recording guitars for the album and I must say that the songs are starting to shape up and sound incredible.

The feeling of this process is amazing, for about 2 years we have been writing and rehearsing these songs and to finally get to the point where it is transforming from our heads and from our rehearsal house to a record. There is such a great diversity among the songs on this album, some of these songs have been played live on our past gigs. Some of them have gone through lot of changes from the versions we´ve played live.

But that´s for it now, long days and long nights are ahead.
Thanks
-Sting

Few photos from the sessions:

What´s cooking?

Hello there earthlings, we come in peace...
Today we started cooking something very solid & beautiful and it's going to be the first full length Red Number Two album. The first cook who stepped in to give his flavor to mix was tom (me).
i tracked 7/8 songs today, ain´t bad at all. Tomorrow i shall track the last song and we will be doing some editing to the tracks and then the cooking will continue, don´t know for sure who´s gonna be the next one.
Here is few photos of the brainless wonders in the magical world of recording.
More to come as we progress
Peace
-King

Debyyttilevyn äänitykset alkavat / The studio session starts

Vielä nimeämättömän debyyttilevymme äänitykset alkavat ensi viikon lauantaina Studio Musicalla. Tarkoituksena on laittaa kapulataiteilija Tom hommiin, eli rumpuäänityksistä on kyse. Rumpuäänitysten jälkeen soitellaan todennäköisesti kitaroita ja bassoja heti kun bändin vanhus Aku pääsee Helsingistä käynnille Jyväskylään.

Seuraahan tätä blogia. Luvassa paljastavaa videota, sensaatiohakuisia kuvia ja räväkkää tekstiä.

Palataan, RNT
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The recordings for the yet unnamed debut album begin next weekend. It is going to be a drum session, so the one to blame is our stick artist Tom. After the drum sessions, we are going to record some guitars, basses as the old fucker Aku come to town.

Stay tuned on this blog. There will be videotape and other evidences about some serious accidents.

Yours, RNT