Breaking the summer silence

After a well-deserved summer break The Elliots returned to the studio this week. Producer Charles Storm hunkered down with parts of the band to record live strings on seven of the tracks.

The Elliots gazed in amazement as super-string-arranger Mattias Bylund and Charles Storm worked their magic together. Mattias Bylund has created some really cool string arrangements that beautifully compliment the mood of the songs. From big, lavish orchestrations to subtle, lingering nuances that color the music brilliantly.

The strings where played by Mattias Johansson (violin) and David Bukovinszky (cello). These two hard-core professionals worked up a sweat, as the session went on for over ten hours. But with excellent results – hats off for their masterful playing!

After adding a few more vocals Charles soon will start mixing the record. That probably will take a couple of weeks. After that we hope to give you some samples of the new songs…

Thank you everyone who participated so far. All of us are so excited for the future and for all the music to come. We’ll check back with you good folks later!

Twitteriffic

Eihaaahh! Things are speeding up quite a bit faster than we expected and recordings are already on the way. We have put down some really wicked drums on two tracks and today we are recording electric guitar sounds c/o Fredrik “Ace” Berggren.

To celebrate this great event we decided to infiltrate both Twitter and Facebook. Please join! We promise to tweet regulerary as we sit around in Cloudchamber getting more and more hollow eyed…

Start-up in the studio

Studio Cloudchamber

Rehearsal sessions for the new album have now officially started. At the first meeting in Cloudchamber we started working on arrangements together with producer Charlie Storm that also labored with the band on “Bullet for Pretty Boy”. From roughly twenty songs we singled out “Believe” (working title) to start off with. Loads of new ideas and nice vibes came out of a very pleasant first day in the studio.

Only time will tell when we will start the actual recording of the record. Right now we are just getting re-acquainted with the material, adding more structure to the songs and trying to figure out a direction for the overall sound .