Sensual Studio Adventures: Supow Session week 2 - Day 3

Wednesday the 30th of June
Hot, hot, hot + more fans (as in machines that blow air), just as we are in a bit of a stressed mood because we have such little time left in the studio and still sooooo much to do and we’re also very very tired. Ok, breathe in, breathe out. We will manage! As my grandmother used to say: “Tob niet, het komt toch anders”. Gijs cooked us a nice vegetarian meal which gave us lots of strength (and gas) to proceed recording. To cool down we ate some spaghetti ice-cream again. We finished two more songs today. Tomorrow will bring us a horn section and our friend Rory Ronde on guitar.

Sensual Studio Adventures: Supow Session week 2 - Day 2

Tuesday the 29th of June
The airco-system has arrived, real nice!
Now we are able to work hard without having the feeling that we’re going to faint (at) any minute. Yesterday evening at the end of the recording day Rickie showed of with his remote controlled toy helicopter (ehum) and Emiel and Tim got all excited and also wanted to have one. Result: today Emiel and Tim bought a remote controlled toy helicopter.  What can I say: Boys will be boys! (Unfortunately Tim’s helicopter already crashed and ended up in the bin). Okay, back to business. Tim went wild with the 808 (analog drum machine) to which Rik and I played ‘Samba na cama’. Emiel and I also did some crazy backing-vocals. After midnight we started recording (one of my favourite songs of the album, can I say this? Yes, I can!) ‘Borboleta’ which means ‘Butterfly’. At 3 a.m. we called it a day without knowing if the song was finished…..

Sensual Studio Adventures: E-sound

Sensual Studio Adventures: Supow Session week 2 - Day 1

Monday the 28th of June
Cologne: outside it’s 31, inside the studio it’s 36.
Our limbs felt mooshy, our throats were dry and Simon saved us (again) by bringing us some amazing ‘Spaghetti ice-cream’. None of us, apart from Tim, had ever heard about this strange delight before. We thought the heath got to the studio guys when they asked us if we wanted some spaghetti ice-cream. But now I can say, after trying it only once, I’m hooked. Check it out here: www.spaghettiicecream.com
In the meantime Rik & Tim started a tabletennis tournament, Tim has the lead. Ofcourse next to eating we recorded a new song with the positive title: ‘Não vai dar’ (It’s not gonna happen). Well, it looks like the album is gonna happen! Tomorrow we might have airconditoning, fingers crossed....

Sensual Studio Adventures: E-Sound

Thursday the 24th of June

Today we've recorded at E-Sound in Weesp (NL). We decided to record at this particular studio because of the BIG recording rooms and it’s beautiful sound. All because of our great string quintet (musicians from the Concertgebouw Orchestra and our friend Guus Bakker on double-bass) that accompanied us on 2 songs. Sebastiaan Koolhoven, our arranger, made a (2) heck of an arrangement. I sang in a cosy vocal-booth, Emiel played the Grand Piano and even got to conduct the strings. It looked a bit funny to see him do this but the strings followed his lead and the 2 songs turned out beautiful. Meanwhile Huub was our man to record and push the buttons. We thank him for the great job he did!