Hi there!
Fireworks are colouring the sky above, and I'm really glad, looking behind and seeing what did 2009 bring. On my personal life I found my soulmate (and wiped out the evil women). And artistically speaking, the last year was a benchmark. The former "War Machine" band turned into LOUD! and we began composing our tunes, hardworking on them and decided to bring to life an full album. I started to write lyrics. We grew solid, massive, sounding like never before. That's it.
So, we wish you all the best. Everyday is a new year's day, we all keep runnin' round the sun, but for the record, we would like to thank you all that supported us, that loved us. We wish you a 2010 full of accomplishments, good health, love, joy and friendship.
H A P P Y N E W Y E A R !
L.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
Hi there!
Actually, we started the sessions at 2pm (Mr Garcia played a 3h full gig the night before and only came back to life one hour after he crossed the studio's doors), but in fact I was setting up the whole thing since the day before, when me and Thiago arrived with the drumset. Saturday by the morning, I've set up the kit meanwhile mr. Magalhaes (Studio Beer owner and tech producer) picked up the guitar/bass/vocals base tracks and put on the computer using ProTools. Then, we began miking the whole thing...and we got a hell of a sound. Really. The bass drum sounds boomy but also with lots of presence, it's like a bonham / van halen crossover. Ans most of all, the whole kit sounds like one instrument alone - not as a bunch of drums and cymbals recorded separately. I took care to not let the sound "colours" split up, carefully positioning the room mics. After all, the kit sounds the way I like - the drums "sing", the harmonics breathe.
For the tech geeks, here are the specs:
Drums: Pearl Export EX vintage - 24x16"bass, 12x10", 13x11" rack toms, 14x12, 16x14 &18x16" floor toms.
Snares: 14x 6 1/2 steel 83' Tama Rockstar / 14 x 6 1/2 steel Yamaha 9000 (only in "One More Time")
Cymbals: Paiste- 2oo2 24" ride, 2oo2 20" Medium, RUDE 18" (x2) & 19" crashes, Signature 15" medium hats, 2oo2 11" splash; Wuhan - 18" & 18" w/rivets Traditional China
Hardware: DW 5000 pedal w/ wood beater; BMA rack; Raul / Bauer booms; Pearl snare & hats stands
Heads: Remo Ambassador Coated (toms batter, and 13" tom reso also); Evans G1 clear (toms reso); Luen Heavy Coated (bass batter) and Coated (bass reso); Evans G1 coated (snare batter), Evans Response (snares).
Sticks: Vic Firth Rock model / 2B model
Tuning: I tried to replicate a classic, vintage tuning, medium to high pitched. Since I was using single-ply, coated heads, special care should be taken to control the overtones, but not "choking" the drums. I do not muffle the bass drum, except for a fabric stripe inside the resonant head that helps to focus the sound, killing excessive overtones. Snare and toms have no muffle at all. The 13" rack tom I tuned batter and bottom heads in unison (same pitch).
Miking: The plan is to get the sound mainly from the room mikes ( Neumann 103, Rode NT2A), and become adding focus with the close mikes (Shure SM 52 / 57 / 56) and some stereo imaging with the overheads ( shotgun mikes - I dit not get their specs, sorry!).
I have to say, some songs I played really hard, but tried to keep some atmosphere in the tunes, using dynamics and grace notes. Hope you all like it, and, as you, I can' wait to listen the work completed.
Some sticks got hurt or died during the making of this record :(
Loudest cheers!
L.
Actually, we started the sessions at 2pm (Mr Garcia played a 3h full gig the night before and only came back to life one hour after he crossed the studio's doors), but in fact I was setting up the whole thing since the day before, when me and Thiago arrived with the drumset. Saturday by the morning, I've set up the kit meanwhile mr. Magalhaes (Studio Beer owner and tech producer) picked up the guitar/bass/vocals base tracks and put on the computer using ProTools. Then, we began miking the whole thing...and we got a hell of a sound. Really. The bass drum sounds boomy but also with lots of presence, it's like a bonham / van halen crossover. Ans most of all, the whole kit sounds like one instrument alone - not as a bunch of drums and cymbals recorded separately. I took care to not let the sound "colours" split up, carefully positioning the room mics. After all, the kit sounds the way I like - the drums "sing", the harmonics breathe.
For the tech geeks, here are the specs:
Drums: Pearl Export EX vintage - 24x16"bass, 12x10", 13x11" rack toms, 14x12, 16x14 &18x16" floor toms.
Snares: 14x 6 1/2 steel 83' Tama Rockstar / 14 x 6 1/2 steel Yamaha 9000 (only in "One More Time")
Cymbals: Paiste- 2oo2 24" ride, 2oo2 20" Medium, RUDE 18" (x2) & 19" crashes, Signature 15" medium hats, 2oo2 11" splash; Wuhan - 18" & 18" w/rivets Traditional China
Hardware: DW 5000 pedal w/ wood beater; BMA rack; Raul / Bauer booms; Pearl snare & hats stands
Heads: Remo Ambassador Coated (toms batter, and 13" tom reso also); Evans G1 clear (toms reso); Luen Heavy Coated (bass batter) and Coated (bass reso); Evans G1 coated (snare batter), Evans Response (snares).
Sticks: Vic Firth Rock model / 2B model
Tuning: I tried to replicate a classic, vintage tuning, medium to high pitched. Since I was using single-ply, coated heads, special care should be taken to control the overtones, but not "choking" the drums. I do not muffle the bass drum, except for a fabric stripe inside the resonant head that helps to focus the sound, killing excessive overtones. Snare and toms have no muffle at all. The 13" rack tom I tuned batter and bottom heads in unison (same pitch).
Miking: The plan is to get the sound mainly from the room mikes ( Neumann 103, Rode NT2A), and become adding focus with the close mikes (Shure SM 52 / 57 / 56) and some stereo imaging with the overheads ( shotgun mikes - I dit not get their specs, sorry!).
I have to say, some songs I played really hard, but tried to keep some atmosphere in the tunes, using dynamics and grace notes. Hope you all like it, and, as you, I can' wait to listen the work completed.
Some sticks got hurt or died during the making of this record :(
Loudest cheers!
L.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Hello guys! First day in studio. We started the recording session at 3 PM and Mr. Mello spent 7 or something hours drumming perfectly. Here some pics to help you to understand how things were during our first day of many in the final stage of our new album. I'll upload some videos and post'em here asap. Hope you like the results up to now.
Loud cheers!
R. Garcia.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Hi there!
Tomorrow we set our feet in studio. Finally, the time has come. I must say I'm a bit nervous, anxious, whatever...everytime I sit behind the drumkit to put down the tracks, for me is as special - VERY special - occasion. It's the time my music turns from something eterial to a material thing, the soul becomes embodied. It's magic, I cannot explain using my fingers on a PC keyboard...
Yesterday I've changed the drumheads to record. I usually play coated heads on the batter side and clear, thin heads on the reso side. It gives me warmth, response and sounds so lively, one can say the drums heard on the record are being played right next door. Errr...someone said "Bonham"? ;)
Working schedule begins at 10 a.m. and goes till the drums are fully recorded. Possibly the percussion parts (timpanies, tambourines, cowbells, gongs, etc) I will do later. I'm trying to focus in the drums only, doing other things would jeopardize all the shit.
That's it. Well be shooting all the session, and then we'll post pics and vidz here.
See you!
Loudest cheers,
L.
*Pessoal, perdão por não ter postado o ultimo também em português. Faltou tempo, sobrou tarefa...mal mesmo! Logo logo reposto.
Tomorrow we set our feet in studio. Finally, the time has come. I must say I'm a bit nervous, anxious, whatever...everytime I sit behind the drumkit to put down the tracks, for me is as special - VERY special - occasion. It's the time my music turns from something eterial to a material thing, the soul becomes embodied. It's magic, I cannot explain using my fingers on a PC keyboard...
Yesterday I've changed the drumheads to record. I usually play coated heads on the batter side and clear, thin heads on the reso side. It gives me warmth, response and sounds so lively, one can say the drums heard on the record are being played right next door. Errr...someone said "Bonham"? ;)
Working schedule begins at 10 a.m. and goes till the drums are fully recorded. Possibly the percussion parts (timpanies, tambourines, cowbells, gongs, etc) I will do later. I'm trying to focus in the drums only, doing other things would jeopardize all the shit.
That's it. Well be shooting all the session, and then we'll post pics and vidz here.
See you!
Loudest cheers,
L.
*Pessoal, perdão por não ter postado o ultimo também em português. Faltou tempo, sobrou tarefa...mal mesmo! Logo logo reposto.
Friday, November 27, 2009
About the lyrics... (I)
Speaking for myself, something curious went on during the last year or so. Before, I was not a writer even for verse (althought many years ago I wrote some stupid lyrics to my former bands). I'm not into poetry and the books I"ve been reading in the last 7 years are only techically-oriented (I have a post-degree in Law and accomplished to be Lawyer). This is the first difficulty I found to become a writer.
The other was something I do not wish for anybody: the companion (?) of someone that, among other abuses, forced me "into the armour". I went so deeply closed into myself, I was unable to speak (nor write) a thing about any feeling, concern, whatever that would express anything than concrete awarenesses. That was my world then...
So, something happened. Overnight I was set free from this "presence" and, after some time..I found myself simply writing down what I was experiencing. The good and bad. I went outside the shell and truly started to put my ideas on paper.
The catharsis I described above is the theme for the song "Distance and Silence". Course I won't name her, but I definetely made it for the girl that turned my life into living hell for years of a stillborn relationship. Some people really seem to have a great time takin' you for a fool, and that was the case. So, one afternoon I began to remember what happened and...voìlá, here's the spell...
===
Distance and Silence
Down and low, livin' on denial
No good for lovin', I just didn't know
Concealed in care, let me unaware
These days in trouble I cannot forget
I asked myself "what you did that for?"
You were so cold, my mind went torn
Then when I realized u can't feel what is love
I got the answer, could take it no more!
No more I would move backwards
Not again I would take your complaints
Not once I've warned you
No way I'll give another chance!
I left with nothin' but regrets to mesmerize
Kept nothin' good by livin' by your side
Spare me your false, there's nothin' more to hide
Good times roll as you are left behind
Growin' confident as I escape mourning hall
I stick to my beliefs - they never let me down
Seekin' serenity my sweat soaks the ground
I earn my life back, I will rise from fall
No more I would move backwards
Not again I would take your complaints
Not once I've warned you
No way I'll give another chance!
Even you understand my hasty hard words
"Never come back, nor talk to me anymore"
Leave me alone, once and for all
Distance and silence - all I want from you!
No more I would move backwards
Not again I would take your complaints
Not once I've warned you
No way I'll give another chance!
=====
So bitter, one could say...Yeah, but also hopeful. The statement is clear... the evil made will not be back again. Once you cut it's roots, everything is okay. And in the meanwhile, some thinking about itself is helpful to bring life back on its rails.
Good times rolled as she was left behind :)
That's all, for now. Today we go rehearsing again...
My loudest cheers to you!
L.
Speaking for myself, something curious went on during the last year or so. Before, I was not a writer even for verse (althought many years ago I wrote some stupid lyrics to my former bands). I'm not into poetry and the books I"ve been reading in the last 7 years are only techically-oriented (I have a post-degree in Law and accomplished to be Lawyer). This is the first difficulty I found to become a writer.
The other was something I do not wish for anybody: the companion (?) of someone that, among other abuses, forced me "into the armour". I went so deeply closed into myself, I was unable to speak (nor write) a thing about any feeling, concern, whatever that would express anything than concrete awarenesses. That was my world then...
So, something happened. Overnight I was set free from this "presence" and, after some time..I found myself simply writing down what I was experiencing. The good and bad. I went outside the shell and truly started to put my ideas on paper.
The catharsis I described above is the theme for the song "Distance and Silence". Course I won't name her, but I definetely made it for the girl that turned my life into living hell for years of a stillborn relationship. Some people really seem to have a great time takin' you for a fool, and that was the case. So, one afternoon I began to remember what happened and...voìlá, here's the spell...
===
Distance and Silence
Down and low, livin' on denial
No good for lovin', I just didn't know
Concealed in care, let me unaware
These days in trouble I cannot forget
I asked myself "what you did that for?"
You were so cold, my mind went torn
Then when I realized u can't feel what is love
I got the answer, could take it no more!
No more I would move backwards
Not again I would take your complaints
Not once I've warned you
No way I'll give another chance!
I left with nothin' but regrets to mesmerize
Kept nothin' good by livin' by your side
Spare me your false, there's nothin' more to hide
Good times roll as you are left behind
Growin' confident as I escape mourning hall
I stick to my beliefs - they never let me down
Seekin' serenity my sweat soaks the ground
I earn my life back, I will rise from fall
No more I would move backwards
Not again I would take your complaints
Not once I've warned you
No way I'll give another chance!
Even you understand my hasty hard words
"Never come back, nor talk to me anymore"
Leave me alone, once and for all
Distance and silence - all I want from you!
No more I would move backwards
Not again I would take your complaints
Not once I've warned you
No way I'll give another chance!
=====
So bitter, one could say...Yeah, but also hopeful. The statement is clear... the evil made will not be back again. Once you cut it's roots, everything is okay. And in the meanwhile, some thinking about itself is helpful to bring life back on its rails.
Good times rolled as she was left behind :)
That's all, for now. Today we go rehearsing again...
My loudest cheers to you!
L.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Salve!
As trilhas-guia estão prontas. O Thiago pôs voz nelas na sexta. Uma música ainda está sem letra, mas logo logo a gente arruma isso. Entre um bauru e outro, escutando um velho disco de piadas do Costinha, as músicas começam a tomar forma.
No sábado, ensaio. Um dia chuvoso e cinza (como tem sido toda a semana), um monte de dor nas costas (achei que tinha estourado o nervo ciático, por conta do excesso de treino de karate e musculação:( ), sem almoço (gravamos na sexta até as 2 da manhã e eu só dormi depois das 3, acordei tarde pra fazer o serviço doméstico...) e as reclamações do cursinho que funciona do lado do nosso estúdio...qualquer um poderia imaginar que estaria um baixo astral. Que nada! Tocamos com tudo, dando o sangue, e as músicas estão realmente muito próximas do seu formato final. Potentes, cheias de balanço,melódicas, sensíveis...bom, eu estou orgulhoso de cada uma.
No fim do ensaio, sentamos e discutimos alguns detalhes a respeito da gravação em si. A nossa agenda marca o começo das sessões de gravação pro meio de dezembro, e o trabalho concluído até fevereiro. Vai ser barbada alcançar essas metas, graças ao planejamento feito.
E discutimos alguns esboços para a parte de produção artística e técnica, a respeito da sonoridade ideal que queremos ter em estúdio e como conseguir isso.
Algo bom mesmo vem por aí. Esperem e verão.
Abração!
L.
PS: A partir de agora, os posts serão bilingues. Facilita, não? ;)
As trilhas-guia estão prontas. O Thiago pôs voz nelas na sexta. Uma música ainda está sem letra, mas logo logo a gente arruma isso. Entre um bauru e outro, escutando um velho disco de piadas do Costinha, as músicas começam a tomar forma.
No sábado, ensaio. Um dia chuvoso e cinza (como tem sido toda a semana), um monte de dor nas costas (achei que tinha estourado o nervo ciático, por conta do excesso de treino de karate e musculação:( ), sem almoço (gravamos na sexta até as 2 da manhã e eu só dormi depois das 3, acordei tarde pra fazer o serviço doméstico...) e as reclamações do cursinho que funciona do lado do nosso estúdio...qualquer um poderia imaginar que estaria um baixo astral. Que nada! Tocamos com tudo, dando o sangue, e as músicas estão realmente muito próximas do seu formato final. Potentes, cheias de balanço,melódicas, sensíveis...bom, eu estou orgulhoso de cada uma.
No fim do ensaio, sentamos e discutimos alguns detalhes a respeito da gravação em si. A nossa agenda marca o começo das sessões de gravação pro meio de dezembro, e o trabalho concluído até fevereiro. Vai ser barbada alcançar essas metas, graças ao planejamento feito.
E discutimos alguns esboços para a parte de produção artística e técnica, a respeito da sonoridade ideal que queremos ter em estúdio e como conseguir isso.
Algo bom mesmo vem por aí. Esperem e verão.
Abração!
L.
PS: A partir de agora, os posts serão bilingues. Facilita, não? ;)
Hi there!
Base tracks are go. Thiago voiced them last friday. One song lasts without lyrics yet, but soon we'll fix it. Between cheeseburgers and comedy records, the songs start to have a shape.
Saturday, rehearsals. Gray and rainy day (as was all week long), lots of pain on my back (I even thought I screwed my sciatic nerve due to karate and bodybuilding overtraining), no lunch (we did recording til' 2 pm and I fell asleep past three, woke up late to do housekeeping) and the complaints from the school next door to our studio...one shoud think the mood would be awful. No way. We played hard, we played our guts out and the songs are much too close to their final shape. Powerful, groovy, melodic, sensitive...well, I feel proud of everyone of them.
At the rehearsal's end, we sit down to discuss some details concerning to the recording itself. The schedule points the beginning of sessions to mid december, and the work done till february. It will be easy to accomplish the goals, due to proper planning. And we discussed some sketches for the artistic / technical production, regarding the ideal sound we want to have on studio and what we shall do to get it.
Something great comes. Wait and see.
Loud cheers!
L.
PS: From now on, the posts will go bilingual, so the english-speaker doesn't need to find odd.
Base tracks are go. Thiago voiced them last friday. One song lasts without lyrics yet, but soon we'll fix it. Between cheeseburgers and comedy records, the songs start to have a shape.
Saturday, rehearsals. Gray and rainy day (as was all week long), lots of pain on my back (I even thought I screwed my sciatic nerve due to karate and bodybuilding overtraining), no lunch (we did recording til' 2 pm and I fell asleep past three, woke up late to do housekeeping) and the complaints from the school next door to our studio...one shoud think the mood would be awful. No way. We played hard, we played our guts out and the songs are much too close to their final shape. Powerful, groovy, melodic, sensitive...well, I feel proud of everyone of them.
At the rehearsal's end, we sit down to discuss some details concerning to the recording itself. The schedule points the beginning of sessions to mid december, and the work done till february. It will be easy to accomplish the goals, due to proper planning. And we discussed some sketches for the artistic / technical production, regarding the ideal sound we want to have on studio and what we shall do to get it.
Something great comes. Wait and see.
Loud cheers!
L.
PS: From now on, the posts will go bilingual, so the english-speaker doesn't need to find odd.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Hi you there!
Tonight we'll be putting on the record the base tracks (guide tracks) for the songs we made. This is the third step on producing, after composing and arranging the tunes. Bass, guitar and voice tracks will be put along a click (metronome), to provide the basic ideas for arranging & engineering the drum tracks. Then, finally, this gtr/b/v tracks will do the job in order to have the foundations needed to record the drum tracks that will go on the album. So, fingers crossed, it's time to build the house. Hope everything goes ok from tonight.
Loud cheers!
L.
Tonight we'll be putting on the record the base tracks (guide tracks) for the songs we made. This is the third step on producing, after composing and arranging the tunes. Bass, guitar and voice tracks will be put along a click (metronome), to provide the basic ideas for arranging & engineering the drum tracks. Then, finally, this gtr/b/v tracks will do the job in order to have the foundations needed to record the drum tracks that will go on the album. So, fingers crossed, it's time to build the house. Hope everything goes ok from tonight.
Loud cheers!
L.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Hi you there!
Yesterday was a productive day. We four were in a great mood to compose. Setting up the things and starting to play and write by half past eight, we achieved to make a new song called "Touch" in exactly one hour. Despite the core idea to the guitar line was made in another time, we basicly laid down a brand new song around it. Meanwhile the chords and melodies were being put together, lyrics were being written, inspired by the rainy week we had (water is falling constantly since monday, we are turning into frogs!) and some sort of feelings on missing somebody.
ASAP we will launch this tune's teaser on MySpace.
Enjoy your weekend, and love loudly ;)
Cheers!
L.
Yesterday was a productive day. We four were in a great mood to compose. Setting up the things and starting to play and write by half past eight, we achieved to make a new song called "Touch" in exactly one hour. Despite the core idea to the guitar line was made in another time, we basicly laid down a brand new song around it. Meanwhile the chords and melodies were being put together, lyrics were being written, inspired by the rainy week we had (water is falling constantly since monday, we are turning into frogs!) and some sort of feelings on missing somebody.
ASAP we will launch this tune's teaser on MySpace.
Enjoy your weekend, and love loudly ;)
Cheers!
L.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Hi you there!
As promised at the last post, some more teasers were uploaded into our MySpace. Go check it out!
http://www.myspace.com/loudorloud
*Always have in mind that those are previews, recorded raw (4 mikes, no mixing) on our practice place. Soon they'll be on the album, so relax, chill out, listen the samples and...be teased! :D~
Cheers!
L.
As promised at the last post, some more teasers were uploaded into our MySpace. Go check it out!
http://www.myspace.com/loudorloud
*Always have in mind that those are previews, recorded raw (4 mikes, no mixing) on our practice place. Soon they'll be on the album, so relax, chill out, listen the samples and...be teased! :D~
Cheers!
L.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Hi there!
Still workin' on the songs. Last friday we got a bit of hard work creatin' and improvin' a new song, which will be called "The Night to Come", nice lyrics by Garcia intertwined to a groovy piece that flourished thru our 70's rockin' sound. Worthy of note is that for the first time we spend one rehearsal - yes, one full-time 2 hour practice session - discussing one only song. As Bruno noticed, "things had been so calmly flowing till now that finally we got stuck around one theme". Question is we dare to insist in the best shape to every song we write down, and sometimes what works good for one, does not for the rest. That's just the case...but, instead of shouting out indeclinable opinions (errr...shouts were listened, anyway), crash furniture agaist the walls, split up ang go on solo career, we just laughed A LOT around our trials to better understand what we were making.
We still did not come to a major opinion, but it seems that the winner over this case shall be the music. And that's because we did exactly this - we grew our understanding on what we were playing, how we wanted to sound like, whatever, we learned lots and lots dissecating the song. That made me feel in a good mood for the rest of the weekend. As quoted Socrates, "As for me, all I know is that I know nothing". =]
Later there will be new teasers in MySpace page, so check back.
Loud cheers!
L.
Still workin' on the songs. Last friday we got a bit of hard work creatin' and improvin' a new song, which will be called "The Night to Come", nice lyrics by Garcia intertwined to a groovy piece that flourished thru our 70's rockin' sound. Worthy of note is that for the first time we spend one rehearsal - yes, one full-time 2 hour practice session - discussing one only song. As Bruno noticed, "things had been so calmly flowing till now that finally we got stuck around one theme". Question is we dare to insist in the best shape to every song we write down, and sometimes what works good for one, does not for the rest. That's just the case...but, instead of shouting out indeclinable opinions (errr...shouts were listened, anyway), crash furniture agaist the walls, split up ang go on solo career, we just laughed A LOT around our trials to better understand what we were making.
We still did not come to a major opinion, but it seems that the winner over this case shall be the music. And that's because we did exactly this - we grew our understanding on what we were playing, how we wanted to sound like, whatever, we learned lots and lots dissecating the song. That made me feel in a good mood for the rest of the weekend. As quoted Socrates, "As for me, all I know is that I know nothing". =]
Later there will be new teasers in MySpace page, so check back.
Loud cheers!
L.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Hey, guys! Four of our new songs are ready to be performed. Some of them are baptized and some of them need a name. Up to this moment we have "Everything" and "Distance and Silence". We are also thinking about the hypothesis of using some good old material such as "The Blues". To listen to this one go to MySpace (www.myspace.com/loudorloud) and check it. Also, I'm gonna keep you up with some of our photo session material. Take a look down here! Hope you like it. See you!
(Lizandro Mello - Drums, Bruno Mariano - Guitar, Régis Garcia - Bass, Thiago Costa - Vocals)
(Lizandro Mello - Drums, Bruno Mariano - Guitar, Régis Garcia - Bass, Thiago Costa - Vocals)
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Hey, hey, hey! Our photo session was very cool. We started shooting at 3:30 p.m. and we went up to 8 o'clock. Unfortunately, some of our "night" pics were not that good. Anyway, I thing that right now we have some material to work for the moment. A special thanks here to our photographer Mônica, she was very helpful. I'm posting here a sequence of picture on our break. That's it for now. Be right back here soon. See you, guys!
Saturday, October 10, 2009
We are heading to a photo session to create our new marketing material. To be very honest, I really like those photo sessions and all that stuff. Normally we have a lot of fun. I'll try to update the blog today with some making off pictures and maybe some videos. Now I'm going to get dressed and take my bass. See you later, guys!
Friday, October 9, 2009
Lazy afternoon, but that's ok! This night we are going to blow up some loudspeakers. Next Friday, November 16, we are going to record a tv show called MUSIURG. Today is a decisive night in terms of set list and some other important details for our presentation. Hope everything goes fine. See you, guys!
Thursday, October 8, 2009
In my opinion, one of the most complex parts of the composition process is the one of creating and writing the lyrics. What they should express? Is it possible to talk about love without sounding silly? Is it possible to write about politics without being radical? I've never been a composer, I'm not very good in writing, but I do try sometimes to write something interesting or at least reasonable for those that are going to listen to my songs. Anyway, sometimes I feel weird writing the lyrics someone else is going to sing. What happens if the one performing the lyrics, the singer, is not in tune with your ideas? Imagine you composed something with your soul and your heart and the performance for that is quite a mess in your opinion. Well, I hate to say that, but we have the best lead singer in the world here. It is almost impossible to write something that Mr. Thiago Costa is not able to sing with passion and the feeling you try to express. I think that nowadays LOUD!'s main composer is our drummer, Lizandro Mello. He is the responsible not only for the loudness, but also for the lyrics that Thiago sings. And what about those that have some blanks in their minds? Well, those write some entries for the blog, right? =) Soon I'm going to post some of our lyrics here. That's all for now, guys. Cheers!
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Hey guys! I'm here to say that we are glad with the first impact our new ideas caused on our friends. Yesterday we published a brief note on Orkut (http://www.orkut.com.br/Main#Community?cmm=477377) about our new paths. I must say that we are happy with all the supportive comments. I wasn't expecting such results from our big change but as I wrote before, I'm quite satisfacted.
Also, I'm here to say that we've provided a teaser on myspace (http://www.myspace.com/loudorloud). It is one of the first riffs we created for our new project. Hope you like it. Keep in touch with us on our twitter (www.twitter.com/loudorloud) and, if you prefer, mail us on loudorloud@gmail.com.
That's all for today, guys!
Cheers!
Also, I'm here to say that we've provided a teaser on myspace (http://www.myspace.com/loudorloud). It is one of the first riffs we created for our new project. Hope you like it. Keep in touch with us on our twitter (www.twitter.com/loudorloud) and, if you prefer, mail us on loudorloud@gmail.com.
That's all for today, guys!
Cheers!
Monday, October 5, 2009
Hey guys! This is our first post here. We hope to keep you connected to our news and interesting happenings. We also expect you to contribute with comments and opinions on our journey thru the development of our work. For those that are not aware, LOUD! is not brand new band. This project was former known as War Machine, a classic rock and roll cover band. Our aims have changed and we decided that it would be a good idea to change our name.
It wasn't an easy decision for us to start all over from the beggining. But we felt it would the right thing for us. We still have the same influences and the same passion for music. The only diference is that we are not a cover band anymore. Our creativity was overflowing during our rehearsals and we thought that it would be a big waste not to use all that loud music that was comming. We really hope you enjoy our blog and our music. As soon as possible we'll be talking to you again about our plans, news and all the rest.
Keep it Loud. Live it Loud. Love it Loud!
Keep it Loud. Live it Loud. Love it Loud!
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