Recording in France - Part 5

Day 5 – last day of recording

Stefan made a promise at breakfast not to smack Eva’s ass today.  He made the promise in trade for handing over a spoon for eating his breakfast. It was all fine, what a lovely day!

As you can see we still like each other

 We also recorded our last two songs. It feels kind of sad to pack up things already and realizing we’re about to leave on Friday morning. Today’s recordings were kind of tough, since the guitar sound didn’t quite work at first. Plus we wrote a new song, which is always pretty difficult. But at the end we pulled it off and it sounds massively heavy. To dedicate the song to our time in France we decide to give it the French title “D’or” – GOLD. 

At night in the dark again, it’s quite an adventure. We sit outside for at least 1,5 hours and hear owls communicate from the forest to the fields back and forth. The stars are out and we experience at least 5 falling. And there we see the brightest falling star ever, with a long tail behind him; it literally crosses the sky from left to right before it disappears forever.

Recording in France - Part 4

Day 4 – stone beach and seaside

Today starts off with a bit of relaxation. We decide to take the morning of to go to the beach in this little town called Dieppe. It’s a small but really friendly town with an overload of seafood restaurants. The beach is made of stones, which makes it not that pleasant to walk on. But of course we’re real rock and roll die-hards and run barefoot to the sea, which is also not warm but really cold! But we can’t complain, after all we’re in France, doing things we love and having a morning by the seaside!

After breathing our lungs full of fresh air we start recording the Ballad. You’d think one of the easiest things to do, since it’s quite slow. Well, we couldn’t be more wrong… it takes quite some effort to put this one down. But in the end it sounds so lovely, breakable and emotional that we hope we make people cry whilst listening to it.
Later at night we sit outside and it feels like discovery channel. Noises everywhere and we’re not quite sure where they come out from… it might be owls, it might be a fox… who knows. We just stare into the deep dark night while a white owl chases a bat in our backyard.

Day 3  - an adventure at night

In the morning we went to Neufchatel – en Bray, but all the shops are closed on Monday so we bought some meat at the butcher and bread at the bakery, then headed home.
Up for today are two songs again; She Pulls her Gun and Howling Wolf. Both of them are quite loud and rough songs. The cows are panicking as soon as they hear the roaring guitar. Not that much of an audience today that is. We’re really satisfied with how today went. The tracks sound really loud, thick and filthy...just as we like it! 

Besides recording we’ve been on an adventure twice later tonight. First, we went exploring the cornfields and the forest. As we walked deeper into the forest we climbed uphill and discovered an old house with chopped wood and machines in the backyard. A perfect setting for a horror movie.  And of course we didn’t take the easy way back. It happened to be that we basically got stuck in the forest on a dead and between bushes and trees, had to slip under some fence and make it all the way up to the top of the cornfields again, where we couldn’t be more tempted to push one of the hayrolls down.  Later at night when it was really dark, we went out with torches to the other side of the cornfields, watching the farmers work late at night and watching the sky full of stars above our heads.