Embracing drum production
Last weekend I recorded the drumtracks for a song called “Hit me hard”, it’s an old song I wrote a few years back. But since I didn’t really like the original recording of the song (which never had any vocals either) I decided to re-recorded it and make some slight changes. On saturday evening I [...]
Charade without any colors
Charade without any colors (Music and lyrics: Mattias Holmgren 1999, performed by Embracing) [Pre-vers] Our time flies by, the years never stay the same I cry for help, you will never hear sound [Vers1] Tired eyes observes the dark red ground Are these my cuts or are they maybe yours I’ve seen this all before, [...]
One lonely voice
En ensam röst (Music and lyrics: Mattias Holmgren 2006) Vers 1: Så länge jag önskar, så länge du finns Inne bland träden, dolt där i snåren Jag vandrar mot öster, alltid mot öster Se där är landet som vi skall bo i Nu är det inte längre vinter eller höst Jag ser ett ljus, som [...]
Christmas remixes
Hi folks, I’ve just prepared my new music computer since the old motherboard went creazy and suddenly gave me blue-screens from hell. The new computer consists of a ASUS P5Q mobo, Intel Quad Q8500 2.33 ghz processor, I also threw in two new Samsung Spinpoint 500 GB HD’s which are running in RAID-0 for some [...]
Stravinsky twelve tone music
I just read an interesting article analysing Stravinsky and his application of the twelve tone music method. Be sure to check it out if you are composing film / game scores yourself. I’ve written a few twelve tone themes in the past while studying composition, but this article is really inspiring. Oh, and don’t forget [...]
New review of AZURE King of stars CD
Just got the review from Earshot of our last album with AZURE called “King of stars – Bearer of dark”, released in 2005 I think. I’m glad they gave the album a high rating 6.5 out of 7. Robban Kanto (Azure) called me a few days ago and we started talking about doing the next [...]
Bluescreen in windows xp
And so it’s there again. I thought the bluescreen was something of the past, but yesterday my stationary Intel Core 2 Duo started acting weird and showing the text “Hardware malfunction” a little now and then. I removed all compontents one by one, and thought it was a memory-issue. Today I bought some new RAM [...]