The beginning of the end

I don't even remember when the first drunken blabber about this album came out of our collective mouths. I've talked it through with Perttu (and Chuck) in such various conditions of mental handicapment, that I won't even try to remember all of them. Good times, no question about that though.

Almost certain the whole thing has been for over half a year now, if you ask me atleast (no official deal still inked, so we'll see if the band agrees). And the music's been there for the good part of a decade, so this is finally time to take everything of it, record it, mix, master, cover and finally wrap in a nice container called a CD.

For me the turning point was of course when 7:45 Records was officially founded at the end of 2007. I knew I wanted to get on with the Indigoflood debut, and just hoped that all the people around me, mostly the band and Sami Sarhamaa who'd be the man most likely to do the production would get along. As has been later proven, absolutely no problem there.

First of we started with a pre-production demo that was created just to present all the tunes the band had to offer. 19 of them to be exact. 13 songs were already on previous demos, and 6 more were recorded at the end of 2007. Then I hauled the band to Helsinki for a gig, so that Sami could get his first live listening experience of the band, and a first meeting with them. No problems there, except for maybe the horrible sounds at the gig joint, due to the lack of soundcheck among other things outside of our juristiction. But a solid gig and a good first meeting, all in all.

Later on, we picked approx. 10 songs to do further pre-prod. sessions on. Sami came over to Turku, did a setup of two mics at the bands second home in Pansio and we sat down as the boys played through the 10 songs we had talked about. We dicussed everyone of them further and Sami laid down some pointer which way to take the tunes. We though of productional solutions how to take the bands sound one step further from their basic live setting. Some chopping of solos and shortening of riffs was considered appropriate, as this far the guys had been playing just for their own amusement, which is of course justified and fun for the band, but might tune out the listener.

The songs to be recorded is still an open question dangling in the air. We've decided on maybe 6 certain and then 4 that might just get done, but propably only 2 of those will reach the album. It's all about what fits the big picture, so no rush there. Anyhow, with all that done we've reached the present times. One more pre-production session took place last weekend, but more on that on my next post.