Greetings from LA!
I arrived to LA few days ago. It’s a wonderful spring here and the sun is shining. It was tough in the dark Finland in the last weeks, so I was already starting to miss the sea and the sun. The least I am going to miss is the snow work…
This trip is not a holiday trip though. I am working with Jim, Slamm and Bart at Remote Control Studios again. We are getting the orchestra arrangements ready and we are starting to discuss the mixing process with Slamm. He is going to be the one to mix all the orchestral tracks. Other mixing engineers will mix the rock/heavy tracks, but I’ll tell you more about that later 
On these days, I hope to meet Mel Wesson as well who was working with the ambient music design on my first album.
The progress of the album is going smoothly but steadily ahead. I have realized during this last month that some of the songs that I thought were not the strongest ones during the writing process turned out to be really good songs now when everything has been recorded. I will definitely have some trouble in choosing the ones that are going to end in the actual album. I guess it’s a nice problem though.
The vocal recordings will continue pretty soon after this LA trip.
Now I would like to tell you something that has been on my mind for some time already. Usually I am not interested in giving my opinions and comments about things that are outside of music and my career, but this time the happenings around just touched me deeply.
There was just a while ago a terrible earthquake in Haiti, followed by other one in Japan and later on in Chile and more recently in Turkey.
It’s just so unbelievable to think all the suffering and trouble that people need to go through in their lives. I am truly speechless and sad. Except for Haiti, I have been in the other countries were I have met lovely people. Is difficult to think that some of them or their families might have been reached by the horrible situation. I am just having them in my thoughts. I send them all my humble and honest love and prayers.
This is the sad reminder for all of us to live our lives as best as we can every day, so that when it’s our time to go, we die alive.
You will never know what is waiting for you tomorrow, so today is the day to cherish.
With love, Tarja
181 Responses to Greetings from LA!
Laura Ull-Mendez says:
Posted on: March 22, 2010 10:12 pmhey tarja, el viernes fui a ver “Alice in Wonderland” 3D, me encanto la pelicula, pero me dio taaaaantooo pesar de la reina roja =(!! (porque los malos siempre pierden?) ah bno, y solo me estaba preguntando si tu talvez tmbn viste la pelicula? xD
y ayer estaba mirando una opera en television… umm, no se como se llamaba… se trataba de una tal “tosca” xD pero muy chevere, de verdad!
bno… entonces solo falta de decir queee: TE EXTRAÑOOO!!!
Donde estas? sigues en LA? como va el album?
QUE ESTAS HACIENDO?
NO NOS PUEDES MANTANAR NUEVAS FOTOS??
haha, bno.. y sigo esperando..
TKM, laura (colombia)
Guilherme7530 says:
Posted on: March 22, 2010 9:13 pmMiss your postings already, Enkeli
Love from Brazil! <3
Yeni says:
Posted on: March 22, 2010 9:02 pmTarjaa!!!
I miss you sooo much!!!
We miss you so much
I love youu!!!
Kises (L) from chile
Winterstorm says:
Posted on: March 22, 2010 7:51 pmHi!!!
I miss you so much!!! PLEEASE tell us soon whats going on!!!!
I love you!!!
Whith love, Alexandra
Mariël Rohrbach (Amsterdam VIP) says:
Posted on: March 22, 2010 10:44 amHi Tarja, where are you sweetheart? I hope everything is ok!
we miss you here..
I love you!
With all my love,
Mariël
Mario (MWS Bulgaria) says:
Posted on: March 22, 2010 10:37 amHi Tarja,
I know that you are very very busy working on your new album, but please write smth. on your blog. You haven’t written anything for almost two weeks. I hope you’re OK.
Kisses From BULGARIA. We love you and we are waiting for you to see you here in Bulgaria
:/
AdrianaLiesl says:
Posted on: March 22, 2010 2:05 amTarja!!…I miss u..!! where are u??…I know you’re working like hell..but we miss u!!..tell us how things are going..
I must confess I’m like “justacodenamed”..chekin’ if u wrote something new…once a day…twice a day…today perhaps it’s the third time!!…C=…I’m just kidding…but I miss u!!
kisses from Mexico City
daniela says:
Posted on: March 21, 2010 11:40 pmTarja ! Cuando posteas? XD..
aslkdjlaksfjalsk Se nota que andamos desesperados ? Solo un poco.. no tanto (??????) Jjajaj
Te quiero y amo Tarja ! = )
Daniela Chuit de Argentina ( Buenos Aires – Capital Federal )
Face: Daniela Danielas Chuit Jjaja Ahi podes ver nuestras fotos (?)
justacodename says:
Posted on: March 21, 2010 6:58 pmAlmagest,
I appreciate it when someone can write a sensible and coherent post, and I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s a bit puzzled by some things. (Though ‘glad’ in this context seems a funny choice of words.) Perhaps it looks like we’re bitching about nothing, but then again – why miss perfectly accessible PR etc. opportunities? I couldn’t care less about charts and what else there is to it, but other people probably do, and I’m also tired of crappy unoriginal bands/’artists’ getting all the attention.
To answer your question, I’m not active on any forum at the moment, though I might join Tarja’s official forum when I have more time on my hands – I’ll let you know then.
JC
PS: It’s not too healthy to be so excited about a new album, is it? And is it pathetic that I check for new blog entries a couple of times a day? On my mobile? Oh, Tarja, where art thou? j/k (almost)
Tommy (Germany) says:
Posted on: March 21, 2010 12:08 pmI think she’s just really really busy making her first single, think its “Anteroom of Death” and making the video. But I’m sure it’ll be awesome! And she hasn’t good much time, just till June, then her Concert’s will begin. So I think WLB will have just like 1-2 singles, but if the Album is good at all, and Montanas de Silencio, If you Belive, In for A kill and Witch-Hunt are just masterpieces, im truly happy. I even would be happy if Tarja would write 1 sentence per day here. What Lies Beneath will be the BEST ALBUM 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!