Yeah, Øystein and me were in studio a few days last week.
We ate chinese (the norwegian rural version mind) had a few beer, watched some nonentertaining Friday- night telly up at Børge's and recorded quite a bit of guitar. The usual...
i've recordeed vocals for two tracks so far..doing at least two more the upcoming weekend...it may seem a wicked way of working, but as I have small kids I just have the time to record som hour at each time. My girlfriend work during the weekends a lot and I have my daily job during the weeks...so
mr V
. Great news anyhow, thanks! Good to hear, no wonder Borknagar's recording time takes a while, because you have a job.i've recordeed vocals for two tracks so far..doing at least two more the upcoming weekend...it may seem a wicked way of working, but as I have small kids I just have the time to record som hour at each time. My girlfriend work during the weekends a lot and I have my daily job during the weeks...so
mr V
)Maybe thats why giant mainstream acts tend to make crappy music, they don't have a good balance or work ethic like the underground groups do.
). The only hard thing for me is coming up with lyrics. But I try lol.
I understand that pretty well.
I have a bunch of projects, but also I have a lot of job on accounting (I have to travel 2 and half hours to do that) and teaching. I play guitars, bass, drums and do the clean vocals on 2 of them - obviously I compose everything - and in a couple more I do basses, acoustic guitars and 2nd vocals, composing like 50% of the entire stuff; plus, I play live like 4-5 times per month, so I'm usually very busy and sometimes tired as hell.
The hard times come when it's time to record-mix-master the whole shit and the job keeps equally demanding. A doom/folk band is currently recording their first demo on my home since a couple of weeks, so I have no time to rest...but it's very satisfying to do this kind of work.
The "borkendales" who live so far away from each other and do a lot more everyday than me, are just incredible and I admire them for that (specially Mr V who releases music like a machine
When a band makes his living just for the music, it starts to make music just to keep earning money and it's no honest anymore. Coincidently, my favourite bands are/were the "studio-only" (or almost) kind like Arcturus, Ulver, Vintersorg, Borknagar, Solefald, Arckanum, etx... bands which don't release 1 album/live dvd per year and/or tour the whole time. I have nothing against that but I think those mostly studio bands are more honest with their music, I mean, their vision of music is -IMO- more artistic than some cash grabber bands who releases albums just cause they 'must' do it.
Making music isn't that stressful, but being a musician itself in todays world is stressful as a whole. At least for me its not easy. I work 50 hours a week, book and promote for my band, and write most of the tunes. Plus I'm mixing our first record. I can't imagine the added stress of parenting while doing all of that. Thats why I love and respect bands like Borknagar and Mr. V, they make great music while still working their asses off to make a living.
Maybe thats why giant mainstream acts tend to make crappy music, they don't have a good balance or work ethic like the underground groups do.
. . Hopefully this year we will have a MySpace page at least .
Oh.. hello Jens, I had a few beers with you and some guy called Snorre in a metalbar in central Oslo 2007.
