shots from switzerland- may 2008

michael rasbury and DD at the zurich airport- may 15th, 2008. the sessions were over and michael was headed back to the states.

hani and sebi - shot at the MIA- switzerland- may 2008

kelvin at the MIA - switzerland- may 2008

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shots from MIA 2 [may 22, 2008]

below: kelvin and hanisebi, lotti and mirjam shots of the set up yesterday... of and from the stage

below: stage crew: andre' and adrian

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shots from the mia

some shots from the mia where we have been performing this week. below:

1. entrance
2. inside where we're performing
   
3. boris and friends
4. dd with friends from Biel
   

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from solothurner zeitung

an announcemnt in the solothurner zeitung- from friend silvia rietz- that i am appearing at the MIA

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switzerland -may 20-2008

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shots from the MIA

(Foto:Paul-Georg Meister)

a shot of me and Sebi - live at the MIA Expo in Grenchen, Switzerland- May 17th, 2008.

and a shot of Hani, which i shot during sound check.
this is from the trio gig

to read the press about the show [in German] click here

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the tracks are done!

the tracks are done! we recorded 14 songs in about 3+ days... we did everything LIVE including the vocals and solos, etc. we did NO instrument overdubs at all except for adding some tambourine, here and there.
now, we are cleaning up and editing some things... but all in all "what you see/hear is what you get" ... the band playing as the band!



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more session fotos

the BLUES sessions are on! we've been knocking the stuff out and have gotten some great stuff. we've gotten maybe 9 cuts in 4 days time- and are hoping to get about 4 or five more in the next 3 days, then quit - choose maybe 12 tunes-and then begin getting some rough mixes. Michael flies back to Virginia, and will do the mixing and mastering there. i'll be posting some snippets of raw video- on youtube and myspace- from the sessions.

sebi and kelvin

michael and jacqueline

hani

michael

sebi

doug

sebi and kelvin

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shots from the sessions

we arrived in zurich may 6 and decided [rather than waste a day on jet lag] to begin the set up and the recordings. we've recorded every day this week, except today; but Michael has done some rough mixes and fixes. we begin again tomorrow, and go until may 14th.
these are some shots from set up May 6, 2008 before we began recording...
from top to bottom:
kelvin bullen:guitar
hani ali: drums
sebi niessner: bass
michael rasbury: engineer extraordinaire and mix master supreme
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new blues you can use

I’ve been working every chance I could get on new blues songs for the upcoming cd. I’ve written 13 new songs in the past 2 weeks… and think I am done! I think I wrote some good stuff. When writing, I went way back in the day; way old school; way back to the roots… and my musical roots. I’m going for a Howlin” Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed feel and sound. Believe it or not, those were the artists my parents partied to when I was little; when they had “house parties” [literally] back in the 1950s.

I wrote a few boogie type songs just because I like them, but don’t normally do them… boogie [not boogie-woogie] is more of a guitar thing; not a piano thing.

I’ve written and recorded everything- made rough demos- and uploaded the material to the band. As soon as I get to Switzerland we will start rehearsing this new material, jamming it out, and begin recording it. We’ll be done with the recordings by May 15^th, but Michael will be mixing and mastering everything in Virginia.

I’m hoping the final product will be ready this summer. Stay tuned!

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