20 Candles completed

On Sunday, 28th February 2009, some champagne bottles have been opened at Tritone Studios to celebrate the end of a long journey. The mixdown and remastering have been finished. So by now we are quite confident that the disc will be available for the 14th March 2009 at our 20th anniversary concert.

Now our focus applies to this very big event and we had some re-hearsals already last week. Further, this concert needs a lot of engineering, in order to get it a worthy anniversary "party"

I will confirm our supporting act, tomorrow at this place.

Now I want you to put your attention on the following Radio shows where we will be interviewed:

Radio 100,7: Sat. 07-03-09 between 02.30pm and 04.30pm (Freq. 100,7)

RTL: Fri. 13-03-09 between 08.00am and 09.00am (Freq. 88,9)

DNR: Fri. 13-03-09 between 05.00pm and 07.00pm (Freq. 107,7)

Maybe there will be some more to confirm.

Have a nice one.

Chris

Big time at Tritone Studios

The warm welcome at Tritone Studios, Trier (http://www.audio.lu/tritone.php?lang=de&module=aboutus) was just the begin of a good relationship between them and us. On Monday, Alex took the whole day to get things started and after a really long session, Broken Heart was mixed down. Julio and Georges from Tritone were open to meet any exigences from the Band but never without investing their opinion, guidance and experience. After a few hours we made a good team, which I personally found one of the qualities to punctuate. The sound of the songs is full, dynamic and living. I know, some of you might say that this is the main goal of all studio, but beleive me, I had some opposite experience in the past.

(Georges (left) and Julio (right) in "action")

However, today will be the final mixdown. Alex had, I guess, a quite fullfilling week and he is surely happy that this load has been taken off him. Again I just want to thank him for all the work he has done the last few month. If everithing works fine today, tomorrow will see the remastering.

I'll keep you posted
Have a nice week-end

Chris ;o)

Recordings finalised

Yes, as promised, it's done. Finally we finished the recordings.

It was around 16.00 CET that we all met to take a look at the things we left out at the begin of the recording sessions. "Left out? How this?" some of you might ask. Well this is quickly explained: When recording sessions are in the beginning phase, everybody tries to start with the, let's say, more complex parts. And at the end of the recording period you have always something to play that you thought finished. However, now we are sure that our Album "20 Candles" will be available latest on 14th March 2009.

Kuffi opened the door to our rehearsal room this afternoon with the words: "Hi, the chants are taped" I can imagine that this took a load from him (and as well from Alex).

So, we went again to take some Band pics, followed by a last action from Yves. Mulles finished a "dum dum dum dum" (So did I too) and I was finishing a few more percussive things.
Now we are ready to rumble. The mixing phase is now upcoming. News will follow.
Have a nice week.
Chris

Today: Get things finished.

After a real exciting week, met the guys quite a few times, we now reached the last recording day. As promised Kuffi got all the songs done, since a while the guitars are on tape and about drums'n bass nobody is talking since a little eternity. Really?... well Alex discovered a blanc at the begin of Battlefield. This means that Mulles and I will have to do some quick takes this afternoon. Anyway, we will meet to take another few Band pictures by daylight.

So, tonight I will update the blog a last time from a recording point of view. Next week, we're in Trier at Tritone Studios to process the final mixdown.

Enjoy your Sunday.

Chris

No Name: A hard working Band

Yesterday, late evening, Kuffi, Mulles and I met together with Alex and Yves who have worked on the last outstanding takes. We arranged, as you can see, to take high professional band pictures.

Why to pay a photographer if you get the same result with a simple timer which is included in every digital cam? (These times are over for us by now.)

After the session we followed Yves, bringing in his solo part on First Night, reflecting a "Suitesch Portugues do Guitariniu bebida demais cerveja Sagres". (?)

We were really happy that this was more or less done by not mor than a half an hour and went to the Portuguese "Pub" next door to discuss about the really important things for our 20th anniversary concert: Catering and comfort!

No, seriousely now. We have still quite a few things to arrange and organise and the tasks have been allocated and need to be accomplished.

Monday the 23rd will be the first day in recording Studio for mixdown. I think I will get some more stuff to write down from there.

Enjoy Music,

Chris

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A fantastic evening

Oh yes, it was. Yesterday I enjoyed being a member of No Name, but first of all let me apoligise for breaking the promise I gave in my previous statement. I really tried to write this down, but didn't find the right words yesterday at all. (Maybe one beer too much...)

As you can see on the few pictures it was the time for us all to rectify, add and change some sequences.

Mulles did some real good work in adapting his bass in some parts of Orient Express. (Sorry, did I forget to tell you that this song will be part of the next CD? My Goodness, shame on me. So now you know.)


For me it was a great pleasure to come along with my acoustic snare (and some beers) to add some kind of rolls and stuff on Orient Express as well. Maybe the neighbors did not feel the same but I think we got it recorded before they thought about calling the cops.

After this we had a quite serious break with all kind of logistic and organizational discussions of our Concert the 14th March 2009 at "Op der Schmelz" (Routing will follow)

Than Kuffi came along, saying he wanted to finish sone songs and check the sounds out of an old thing called SPD11. (Whatever!)

So Mulles and I just modestly disappeared, not to say we ran away (Little joke). To be honest we only left because these recording microphones are quite sensible on any kind of noise they do not have to record.

Kuffi did some really long and hard sessions the last days together with Alex and I really like to thank them for this.

Now for the nex steps: Tomorrow, we will ALL meet to take some Band pics, an I will provide you, hopefully with some further news.



Until than, enjoy your time,

Chris

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Last rec. sessions before X-Day

Dear Prog-Rock Fans,

No Name´s discography is soon going to have one log more.

This afternoon we're finishing some of the outstanding stuff and modify some takes which didn't work out fine enough. However, the whole Band will be present and I' ll profit to take some pics and post them tonight when I'm back.

Further, I will put a little slide show in place, in cluding pictures of the las 20 years of No Name.

Enjoy your Sunday.

Chris :o)

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