MANES "Nearly Complete" Recording Process Of New Record
November 13, 2006, 17 years ago
Norwegian experimentalists MANES have issued the following studio update:
"Information overload! We've nearly completed the recording-process, but we've barely started the crucial arranging of it all. We know it's gonna be a damn fine album, but we can take it any which way we want right now. We're considering to just drone out and basically just let the layered disharmonies we found recorded one snowy morning wobble and wave their way through the best part of an hour, but we probably won't. We just have too much of almost everything. I guess it's a good thing.Vocals are done, more or less. Asgeir (Hatlen) has delivered some truly emotional performances unlike anything we've ever heard him do before. We have left Kristian Moan and Spiren Studio in the Rognes outback behind for now, and started what initially was to be the first subtle steps into the mix in Skansen Studio this last weekend. We had some folks over doing some additional vocals and besides that tried to focus on structuring the tracks and arranging what we've got. Rune Stavnesli is still with us for this part of the process, but this multiple balls in the air juggle-a-thon is giving him his first grey hairs. We're kinda proud of that. Sorry.
We're now on a short break to focus on just listening to what we've got ... try to establish some sort of natural order in the multitrack chaos and confusion. We'll be back in Skansen Studio to mix it all in mid to late November with Rune and Stein Bratland. That'll be fun. We've included some elements into this process that makes it all very uncertain and "foreign" for us this time, and we're enjoying the sensation. It's exiting times, exiting times indeed.
We might be posting a studio out-take of some sort in a week or two, but we probably will leave it out here for a very limited time. Subscribe to our blog to be sure you get yer hands on it."
