Filed under: Diaries | Tags: Bianca, CityFM, Cyanna, free download, Guru, Jason, Just A Crash, Like Fire, live, Louie, Nick Sid, Panousis, Paranoid GF, Provis, Serafeim, Spyreas, Stelios Vlachakis, Sygkatikos, Teo Zefkilis, Wanna Be Your Dog, Zavara
It was a Sunday afternoon earlier this year, February 8th. We parked the cars with our gear outside the Guru Bar in Psyrri, downtown Athens. Five minutes later, our hosts for the gig and radio show broadcast Serafeim, Stelios (Provis) and Vasilis (Sigkatikos) arrived in their soccer outfits (tres sportif garcons) and helped us carry all the stuff up. The live stage of the club was set up on the third floor and the radio installation was set on a small attic right above the live stage floor. We spent the entire afternoon setting up everything, drinking anything we could find in the closed bar, eating junk food and discussing how we would fit our 14 lines into the 8-track console available for the live broadcast. The PA system of the club was no problem the only tricky part was the radio broadcast for CityFM 99,5.. but as you can hear in these 4 songs we have available for you to download, I think we did ok in the end after all! (more…)
Filed under: Diaries, Just A Crash, Making Music | Tags: Aris Christou, Best radio, Claudia Matola, Cyanna, Done Be, SCA studio, Soundwave, Teo Zefkilis, TV Nation
Unfortunately we’ve had some more setbacks and delays and so the album is not ready yet.
The last three weeks we have been mixing with Aris Christou (again after 2 years of working mostly with Teo Zefkilis) but the mixing sessions are not frequent enough for the album to finish. However the results are more than encouraging and only a few songs are left to be completed.
In the meantime “Done Be” and “TV Nation” (included in the promo sampler we have been giving away to radio producers and stuff) are receiving some serious airplay on Best Radio, and so we gave an interview on Claudia Matola’s show (14:00-16:00 GMT +2) last Saturday regarding the whole Coca-cola Soundwave competition thing.
We have been working on these tracks for almost a year. We have been working on general ideas for this album (most of which have obviously been abandoned) for almost two years. I can’t help but wonder how much longer will this epic take.. it has been a looooooong painful process. Fun too.
Who knows.
Filed under: Diaries, Just A Crash, Making Music | Tags: Cyanna, Done Be, Electron, Mercury Studio, On And On, SCA studio, Shine, Teo Zefkilis, TV Nation
The albums almost ready at last, we are mixing/mastering it with Teo Zefkilis @ SCA studio (as always).
This is the final songlist in no particular order:
Done Be; Electron; On and On; Better Not; Chinese Dress; Highway Exit; TV Nation; Limiter; Paranoid GF; Small Talk; Liquid; Shine;
The amounts of coffee and chocolate of all kinds consumed by all four of us is unimaginable.
Btw the photo on the top of this blog is the door to the hallway of our own studio (aka the Mercury Studio). Its the door between the rehearsal room and the programming/mixing/editing/monitoring room.
We are very proud of our original vintage wooden doors.
And windows.
Lets see what this life holds for us next..
by Spyreas
Filed under: Diaries, Making Music | Tags: Aris Christou, Cyanna, E-babe, Freddie Mercury, SCA studio, Sertab the cat, Soul Party, Teo Zefkilis
The first album was the “under pressure” one. We loved it, we remember the time we had makin it and we miss it. The experience was mind+heart-blowing, we discovered our limits, at least we think we did (but we hope they are further more..). It’s been a year and a half since its completion and I can still smell hot coffee and cigarettes from the mixing room, I can still see Sertab the cat fiddling around, I can still hear the jokes Sir Christou Aris and Teo made..
Maybe it’s all because we are back in there..:)
This album is the slow one. It’s pressure is released bit by bit, day by day, song after song. This album is free. New songs, old songs, and everything in between. Influences, fetishes, die hard habits, bad manners, fears and tears, joy and faith, misery and denial.. no future but not giving up? Not yet. Cyanna will hit the world at least one more time.
“Ebabe” is nearly through. Next up: “Soul Party” and a new, unnamed yet track. Temporarily called “Ambient song”.
Baby calling to its mother. My loving one.
..they later grow up to become demons. like us..
Relevant irrelevancy: Freddie Mercury R.I.P
