Guitar recordings
We said goodbye to Doug Wimbish in the morning. He finished all the bass parts last night with success.
Including a beautiful solo for “The Crying Moon”.
Alex was recording yesterday and today guitars for many songs. He is using 3 different amplifiers in recordings, so that we reach bigger and bombastic sound. Here you’ll see them in the back.
It has been absolutely important that Alex has been here with us during the whole project. He has been arranging killer guitar riffs for many of the songs and they are sounding now much more modern, heavy and ROCKING!
But there is also space in the album for some delicate sounds together with the raw ones.
There have been quite many people visiting the studio while we’ve been here and ALL of them have agreed that this album sounds very promising 
. I am, of course, very delighted about this. We have worked in the whole process 33 songs from which I decided to record 17. The remaining ones took another path because of the music, lyrics or both. I am sure that I will give them a rest, but I will re visit them for other projects or for a future album.
Tomorrow I will start rehearsing and adjusting the vocal parts and getting my body ready for the actual recordings. These are about to begin 
We have been working long days. Every night the time to go to sleep has been more or less at 03:00 in the morning or later. The lack of sleep starts to affect all of us, but the good mood around helps us to keep ourselves in the right track. We are here for one purpose and everybody is giving his or her very best for it.
I am very happy to see the musicians really putting their heart into my music. I am really grateful to them.
With love, Tarja
124 Responses to Guitar recordings
Vesna says:
Posted on: February 17, 2010 4:25 pm17 songs, wow, I’m really looking forward to hear them, I know they’ll be amazing. What is interesting is that, as time passes by, My winter storm songs are growing on me more and more, and every time I hear something new in them, so I’m really excited about new surprising songs. Will you be doing some music& lyrics for them as well?
Wish you all the best, love,
Vesna (Croatia)
Ice-Princess says:
Posted on: February 17, 2010 2:55 pmIt`s soooo great that you say us, what you are doing in the studio and so on!! It sounds very promissing!! Thank you!
I am so happy to hear your new songs soon, after all this waiting!! An also to hear them life in Miskolc!!
Cristian says:
Posted on: February 17, 2010 11:03 amI am sure will be great, as was always your beauty and your voice. It’s nice to see talented musicians to work!’re A strong woman and always do it to show us what is beautiful in your music and nights without sleep I hope not affect your health! not easy to do nice things and I know that music comes from the heart! A good thought somewhere in the world ….. With all my love
Dream Catcher says:
Posted on: February 17, 2010 7:43 amDear Tarja and others, I’d like to tell you that this session is the fastest album creation i’ve even seen in my life. Since most bands take almoust a year to create and record one album. In your case, Christmas concert wasn’t so long ago and already you’re nearly done recording your parts. I am truly pround and amazed!
Noora says:
Posted on: February 17, 2010 6:47 amHei Tarja!
Juu, kyllä kuulostaa lupaavalta nämä uudet jutut.
Olisi kuitenkin kiva tietää, kinka paljon WLB poikkeaa MWS:sta, sillä näin lukemisen pohjalta tuntuu, että suunta on vaihtunut paljon! Mikä on tietenkin vain positiivinen asia. Ja tottakai rakastan myös MWS:sää. ;D
Kaikkea hyvää teille. Kivoja kuvia.
Almagest says:
Posted on: February 17, 2010 3:30 amWhew, eventually I managed to say what I wanted to say. Take that, stupid blog
Of course, I meant “sleep deprivation” with P. >_>
Almagest says:
Posted on: February 17, 2010 3:26 amPerhaps you can integrate some of the melodies and ideas of unused songs into other songs, or combine ideas from several songs into longer ones, to reduce the total number of songs and still make sure that all the ideas end up being used? Or at least the best ideas
Oh, and please, as interesting as it is to have bass, drum, and Hammond solos, don’t forget cool, fast, not-too-short, not-too-easy guitar solos. (They needn’t be power metal or Yngwie like, even though I like those best. There may even be acoustic ones!) Every instrument should get solos. Don’t forget the Rules of Prog Metal xD
Of course, the most important solos are yours! Coloratura style. Haha. It’s all about your voice eventually, but hey, everyone in the band should be allowed to shine a bit, everyone should get their moment in the limelight, don’t you think so?
Winter of Souls: Actually Hansi got the idea to multitrack his own voice from Freddie Mercury – he’s a big Queen fan
Ad astra!
Florian
Almagest says:
Posted on: February 17, 2010 3:26 amAnd what, 33 songs? Out of which 17 have been recorded? You’re crazy! I mean, are those all going to end up on one disc? Then they’ve got to be seriously short and that’s just not … epic! Fewer songs = every single songs can be longer = MORE EPICNESS!
Almagest says:
Posted on: February 17, 2010 3:25 amBut if you enjoy the work that much indeed, it’s probably less hard ^^ But still, that’s a recipe for sleep derivation. I need my sleep and I’d end up falling asleep during work and snoozing the whole afternoon long.
Almagest says:
Posted on: February 17, 2010 3:25 amHei Tarja!
Woo-hoo, bass solo!
Working until 3:00 AM while getting up early the next day? That’s really brutal >_<