We’ve always had unconventional instruments/guests on sixtoys’ albums. On copy paste & repeat we did a song with a Bass-tuba. On Forbidden War we had the ‘child-choir’ in the song Heroes…
.. This time we had been thinking about incorporating a marimba-like line in a song called ‘Chains On Me’. Our friend Pieter V. stepped up to the plate. He’s this amazing marimba – vibraphone – drummer – anything-percussion-musician. We ended up using the Vibraphone on 2 songs and some additional percussion as well. We used kettledrums on one of the songs and a what must have been 60″ (1,5m) bass drum which produced this really cool drone-sound. Sunn((((o)))) watch your back…
We had also worked together with an old school-buddy of Peter called Stijn who is this amazing jazzy-violin player. We were working on an idea for the ending of the album. It’s this huge arrangement with a lot of additional stuff and thought a violin would really contribute to the feeling we were going for with this. We went to sugarbeatstudios www.sugarbeat.be, and stijn laid down this amazing Baltic-like-line which was exactly what we were looking for… great job! Also, Anton Walgrave, the owner of the studio, came by to sprinkle some of his amazing voice on the track. “One man Kozak-choir”. It’s really intimidating but inspiring to be working with such talented musicians … if i’ll ever be half the musician each of these guys are i’ll die a happy man.
By now this baby is ready for mixing! More on the mixing and the artwork soon! Nice to see so many of you are reading this stuff, hope you enjoy…
cheers
::jelle::
