Archive for August 2007

photo session

Friday, den 17. August 2007

Hello everybody,
Last Tuesday and Wednesday I have been making the photos for the album cover and booklet in Hamburg, Germany.
They were very long hard working days with my dear friend Heidi who prepared a special make up for me this time.
The results are amazing
I won’t write too much now because I am really [...]

Belated greetings from the English outpost in the Winterstorm project!

Tuesday, den 14. August 2007

As Tarja said, I’ve been working remotely from my own studio and sending files to wherever in the world the rest of the team happens to be.
I’ve worked this way on many film projects, this time it took a degree of blind faith on the side of Team Tarja, (much appreciated!), and as ever [...]

Mel Wesson & the beginning of the mixing

Saturday, den 11. August 2007

Time is running fast here in LA.
We are working every day very hard to get the best results in everything we are doing. It already sounds very good!
I want to tell you a bit more about the man who has been creating all the crazy and scary sounds on my album.
His name is [...]

Jim Dooley

Tuesday, den 7. August 2007

Greetings from LA!
The sun is shining and you can feel the breeze of the ocean here in Santa Monica.
I am still suffering a bit of a jet lag, because I just arrived to LA late yesterday evening. I was anyway so excited to go to the studio today, so I didn’t have any time to [...]

Martin Tillman

Saturday, den 4. August 2007

Hello my friends,
I was some days ago in Switzerland.

Zurich is so beautiful with its old buildings and architecture.

I was happy to have some time to walk and look around the city, like a real tourist.

We also had some job to do over there
I had a great pleasure and honour [...]

acoustic guitars

Thursday, den 2. August 2007

An incomparable beautiful voice, an extremely talented artist, a perfect diva.
Tarja always gave me a great impact every time I listened and saw her singing.
I’m very glad to be invited to take part in her new album “My Winter Storm”.
When I got the call asking me to record some acoustics guitars on [...]