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Part one: The drum session
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Lothar Weise plays the drums on "Atma Gyan".
Even before we got into the studio he did some very
amazing takes for "Facing The Ruins" and "Our
Dream". Curious about the sound? Click
here.
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Part two: Getting started
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Sonja and Matt making first decisions in the "Nachtschicht"
-Studio.
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Holger (Cello) plays his parts quite cool, and fastly
builds a basic sound which makes things go on further
easily.
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Katrin Ebert delivers the large Violin- and Violaparts
with overwhelming clearance and speed. The Songs grow!
She plays at "Facing The Ruins", "Lost",
"My Sweetest Pain", "Black
Widow" and "Atma Gyan".
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Part three: Percussions and vibes
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John Abdel-Sayed plays all percussions on "Atma
Gyan". Because of his imagination on over ten instruments
we decided to extended the session over two days.
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One of his favourite instruments: the Tambura. Along
other percussions you can hear the Tambura on "My
Music Is Gone". Altogether John plays on "My
Music Is Gone", "Lost", "My Sweetest
Pain", "Secret Garden", "Black Widow"
and "Atma Gyan".
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Part four: Indian style
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David Distelmann amazingly creates the right atmosphere
for "Secret Garden", "Our Dream" and
"Atma Gyan" on his Sitar.
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Chander Mohan translated the English version of "Secret
Garden" into Hindi. We invited his brother, Brijesh
Kumar into the studio to record this translation, as you
can see above.
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Part five: We need Bass!
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Johannes Kramer (Doublebass), King of low frequencies
at "Lost", "My Sweetest Pain", "Black
Widow" and "Atma Gyan". The beautiful,
warm sound of his instrument makes you shiver!
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That's what Matt must have been thinking and makes
Johannes giving his very best. Currently working on "My
Sweetest Pain"...
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Part six: "Good guitar- Evil bass"
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Wim Leydes - writing songs and lyrics for PERSEPHONE
as well - plays his parts highly concentrated. His fingers
were nearly bleeding...
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vil Rob! The gardener of your confidence. Robert Beyer
plays very cool bass-lines which he regards quiet critically
(with this very expression in his eyes). But you never
get disappointed as you will hear at "Shadow
Dance". He is playing at "Facing The Ruins"
and "Our Dream", too.
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Part seven: Piano & Cello
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On the piano, on the cello, behind the desk. There's
much to do for Martin who is currently playing the piano
at "Our Dream".
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Some parts were done spontaneously at the studio, the
rest of the arrangements were already done, like "Eternal
Grief".
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Part eight: Sonja on stage
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After two weeks all instruments are done, so it's time
to record Sonja's vocals. She starts with "The
End Of The World".
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Part nine: Basic needs
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"Just let them go on.", is what Sonja is thinking
and devotes herself to the overwhelming feeling of tiredness.
By all means: Regarding the 14-16 hours of daily work
sleeping in the studio is permitted...
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... That's what Matt must have been thinking. Some days
later he shares the same fate.
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"Sleep! Would be great... But not without a nice
song to drift away!", such as "Lullaby".
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Part ten: Violin of Madness
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Martin prepares the songs while Matt is warming up...
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...to be able to create atmospherical sounds and solos
with his passionate play as you can hear on "Our
Dream".
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Part eleven: Goodbye
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The end of the recordings, the end of Matt's stay and
his "Violin of madness". We'd like to thank
Matt for his ideas, patience and persistance. 'We "Lost"
him...' - Out of sight but not out of sense...
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Last part: The finish
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We went to the Woodbine St. Recording Studios, GB,
to mix Atma Gyan. Sonja enjoys a break with a cup of tea.
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The Master himself: John A. Rivers, owner and producer
of the Woodbine St. Recording Studios where already bands
like DEAD CAN DANCE, SOPOR AETERNUS and L'ÂME IMMORTELLE
had their albums recorded.
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Lost in listening: Martin silently judges the intense
work of two weeks of mixing and finishing the record "Atma
Gyan".
This is how to countdown of the new release ends. We'd
like to thank everyone who was involved for their energy
and ideas. Special thanks go to Matt Howden and John A.
Rivers who strongly influenced the sound and the songs
of this record.
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