Alpine Those Myriads

Upcoming concerts

2012-05-28T18:38:21+00:00

We´re buttoning up our 3rd album these days and that means we´re ready for the stage again. Yay! We´ve booked two concerts this Summer and we hope to see you there. The first one is at Cafe Mir in Oslo the 7th of July where we´ll share the stage with a magnificent band called Felan Haven and our second appereance is at Kleppanfestivalen in Stokke the 3rd of August. Mark those calendars!

We´re also booking a tour to promote our 3rd album and if some of you work at a venue or know a booking person - please recommend us. The world needs a little more of that serious Alpine Those Myriads heat!

Diary one of mixing our 3rd album

2012-04-06T16:55:19+00:00

Just a tad louder? Is it to wide? Should it hide in the back for a while and then come charging like a raging bull with a concluding boom? Maybe I can chop it up, make it shiver and then let it scream? We´re knee deep in shaping the sound of our next album and here´s a field report from our mixing sessions.

It´s a true joy to be at the stage where we can tune our songs into their full glory. We´re solely in charge of mixing this time ´round, it´s a hefty challenge and kind of nerve-wrecking, but it´s pure fun. As mentioned earlier in a diary we see the mixing phase as the last chain in the songwriting process. We really try to have zero respect of the recorded song at hand to see if we can bend it into even greater heights. We´re aiming for something quite unique with this record and we hope to achieve a sound that´s rich, colorful and different. We may end up with a big wash of schmaltz - let´s hope we can walk that tightrope…knock on wood! We´re of course also tuning those itsy bitsy frequencies and once in a while we feel like completely loony bins when listening to a tiny section over and over again to see if we can find that offending frequency - strange moments in time that is often followed by a reality check and a big laugh.

We have four songs left to mix before taking a wee break and then we´ll come back to perfect that sucker. Soon after that it travels to a mastering engineer who´ll exercise his voodoo.

That´s it for now. We´ll leave you with a neat flying woodblock that´ll be a part of the album.

Day seven of recording our third album

2012-02-29T17:56:19+00:00

A lot of hefty vibrato, a couple of harrowing screams and some delightful ooh´s & aah´s has been put into that microphone. Gypus has been singing and we´ve listened with joy as he´s crooned his way through the upcoming album.

His heart exploded into that microphone like a dazzling volcano and all the corners of said heart are now securely printed on tape. He´s satisfied with the results and we´re very pleased with the range of vocal approaches that the record will contain. We´ve noticed that there´ll be a lot of pain throughout this record, it´ll travel other emotions also mind you, but judging from the vocals there´ll be a big combo-platter of subterranean pain. We hope it´ll translate well to the listener and we also hope that people can handle our heavy handed ways - we most certainly know our dear fans will soak it in ´cause their complex and beautiful beings you see.

We did the recording in a small and tight washing room. Not a very glamorous and atmospheric place to sing perhaps, but in our experience one “shuts”of the eyes and “forgets” the surroundings when loosing oneself in that music. We somehow feel that our minds are pre filled with imagery and enough inspiration when we´re ready for the tape. Maybe we´re fooling ourselves though. Smell on the other hand may be more of a problem, but since we recorded in a washing room the scent was fine and peachy.

We had plans to shoot a video of Gypus singing, but we don´t have the equipment for it right now. Sorry about that! Hopefully we can afford it someday. We do however have nice pictures from the sessions though.

So this marks the end of recording our third album, but it´s not the end of our diaries. We´ll keep on writing through the mixing process and also through the making of the cover art. We´ll make something cool with all these diaries when the album is finished.

Next up is “Day one of mixing our third album”.

Third album status report & cover art

2011-12-21T13:42:46+00:00

As you may know we are recording our third album these days. The only thing that´s left to record is the vocals and then we´ll mix that sucker. Gypus will be in charge of the mixing and The Marble King will provide his invaluable ears. We had high hopes that we could release the record in March/April 2012, but these things take time. We´re very excited about this album and it´s better to give it a couple of more months to get it right.

We were quite stressed out about the cover art for a while, but a recent opportunity presented itself and our worries set sail. We´ve once again gotten the great illustrator Tor Edvin Strøm on board and we can´t wait to work with him again. What´s special this time is that Tor Edvin will include his students in the project and together they will surely produce something that is utterly magic. The making of the cover art starts in April - We can´t wait!

We´re looking forwards to what 2012 might bring and hopefully there´ll be many concerts throughout the year. Psst…after May our new album may drop any time!

Happy holidays and we hope that all your wishes come true!

Day six of recording our third album

2011-12-10T18:45:22+00:00

On day six bass was created. Pun intended! This diary will be a short one.

Here’s how day six happened. The Marble King came to Chelofan’s apartment. He fingered the bass and he picked the bass. He played great and then he left. As quick, cool and effective like that it was!

Next on the recording schedule is vocals and after that it´s mixing time. Boom! We´ll start recording voice after the new year and we´ll hopefully include a video of Gypus singing in our next diary.

Stay golden and be sure to spread the ATM love!

Day five of recording our third album

2011-11-04T13:44:14+00:00

Drums, drums, drums! Day number 5 was all about nailing those drums. Technically we recorded for two days, but we´re calling it day five whether you like or not. We managed to record all five songs, there´s that number again, that have acoustic drums during this session - can you spell e-f-f-i-c-i-e-n-t!

Gypus was highly nervous about recording the drums again. He hasn´t twirled the sticks for years and he wasn´t sure if he was up for the task. Luckily it didn´t take to long before Mr. Chelofan befriended the schlagzeug again - a pot of coffee and a couple of explicit words was all that it took to bring forth that sweet and holy rhythm. Bliss!

We had the pleasure of recording the drums at an excellent studio and with a very good friend. Our friend Terje, a fellow drummer, helped and inspired Gypus quite a lot during the recording. Thanks kind sir! He´s also a marvelous composer/producer and we recommend that you listen to his latest solo record “Still you. You still here”. We also recommend Terje´s studio for all recording needs. He´s is great to work with, the equipment is top notch and the coffee is strong! More images from day 5 can be found here…

Our third album is rapidly approaching the mixing stage and we´re looking forwards to it like mad babies in a honey pot. We´re a little stressed out about the fact that we need new monitors to get this record finished. Our old monitors are dying and the good ol´ wallet is thinner than ever. Hopefully everything works out and perhaps a boatload of people buys our last album…who knows?

Day 6 will be dedicated to recording the bass and The Marble King will be responsible for the fingering. We can´t wait to set loose our beast of an album!

Day four of recording our third album

2011-09-20T10:17:16+00:00

Ms. Fall is manifesting herself and our creative juices is boiling. Fall always gets our abstract kingdom bubbling with wonderful stuff…

It´s all about the electric guitar these days. The Marble King is in the building with his axe and he’s laying down some sweet things on that tape. It´s a joy working together with Mr. Marbles and Gypus is ecstatic to have his mighty fingers contributing to the world of Alpine those myriads! We believe and hope that this third album will be very different from what we´ve previously done and we further think that it has a lot to do with The Marble King being featured in a big way - Thundering glam salutes and cryptic blues! More photos of the man here…

We´ve recorded guitars on six songs, but we´ve got another two to go before Gypus enters the drum booth. We´re not to keen on telling you about the titles of the songs yet, but there´s one that we can reveal that we´ve been playing live lately - It´s called “Hell is in this well”. It’s a song about mental disintegration and a concluding insight. Not a light subject, but it´s penned by Mr. Chelofan and he often rolls around in the mud of the mind…

There´s this 10 minute song, mentioned in an earlier post, that we´re having problems with and we´re afraid that Gypus looses faith in getting it recorded the way he wants. It´s not a typical structured song - it´s more like a long snaky road that has to be constructed right or else it´ll just loose its way and not make sense. It´ll be the most personal song on the album and we pray that Gypus will get it right.

So that concludes it for now. Hopefully next time we´ll be chiming in from the drum booth. Stay hungry and be courageous!

Three songs from John Dee

2011-08-31T20:29:28+00:00

Long time no see. Sorry for the lack of updates, but we´ll remedy that in September…

We recently played a show at John Dee in Oslo that we also recorded with the help of our dear friend Terje Evensen. Thanks Terje! We´ve listened through the show and picked out three songs that we´ve shared exclusively with people on our mailing list. People on our list gets the ATM VIP treatment, but you can also get in on the fun. Just type in your email in the right sidebar on our front page and you´ll get the songs immediately!

Here´s your chance to get a glimpse of what we do live and we hope you´ll dive in and join the sweet ATM army…

Day three of recording our third album

2011-06-30T19:23:19+00:00

Gypus´ broken arm is healed and we´re at it in the studio again. We haven´t recorded any new audio, but we´ve generated a whole lot of interesting sounds with our favorite soft toys that´ll be included on our third album. Our new darling is the splendid Reaktor ensemble “Scapes” by Twisted tools. It has successfully mangled our sounds into otherworldly timbres and sent our songs into unknown territories — just the way we Alpineans like it.

We´ve spent hours running through our archive of audio samples and carefully picked out sounds that will hopefully give extra shine to our third album. It´s certainly easy to loose focus and get lost in the world of noise when auditioning samples, but it´s pure joy. Check out these creatures…

We´re tempted every day to start mixing on our material, but we have to be patient little boys. We´ve always felt that mixing is much more than getting instruments to sound good and we like to think of mixing as one big final instrument that can radically shape, bend and twist the songs/sounds. In the coming weeks we´ll finally see the arrival of The Marble King and we can´t wait to get some royal guitar-voodoo on our tracks. Mr. Marbles can´t arrive soon enough!

By the way, you should come and see us at John Dee in Oslo the 29th of July and we also have a new show in Larvik the 6th of August. Fun!

As Summer flaps her wings…

2011-06-01T17:31:09+00:00

...we prepare our bits for the concerts ahead. We´re thankful, excited and looking forwards to our shows this Summer!

First gig up is the wonderful “Working class hero” festival in Drammen the 3rd of June. We unleash our hounds 19.30PM at this festival and there´ll be more delightful acts following us this evening.
The 18th of June to June 22 we´ll do a tour in Ireland and we´ll post many images and posts as we travel through the Emerald Isle. The 29th of July we´ll share the stage with Autonomia at John Dee and maybe even more concerts will pop up…who knows?

We´ll be playing some songs from the forthcoming album this Summer and also songs from our previous records that we´ve never played live. Take a look at our schedule and we hope to see some of you this Summer.

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