Wednesday, January 30, 2008

really almost done....

alright, so we finished singing. that happened a few weeks ago. Jeff at Phonetic Sound Studios has been working on mixing it. And things are moving along with that too. Soon the album will be done done, as in DONE, and then we'll send it away to get manufactured. Did we mention how excited we are about getting this out? We're going to send it to EVERY RADIO STATION IN THE WORLD! ok, maybe not, but you know... a lot of them. And maybe they'll play some songs, and people will like them and all that. And then a bunch of people will come to our shows, even in different cities... ah yes... once the album is done.... we expect it to be available for sale in March or April.

oh, and... we merged some posts from our myspace blog onto this blog, so there is a bit of duplication in those last two posts.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

New blog!

Welcome to the new blog for The Martingales! We will be posting news about recordings and shows, and anything we feel like. We may as well start off...

The album. Our first album is almost done. We've just got to sing on five more tracks, and then we will be done. There are a total of twelve songs (two instrumentals). We do not have a specific timeline, but we expect people to be able to get it within a couple of months (after mixing, mastering and manufacturing take place). So far it is sounding great (in our own opinions, of course), and we can't wait to have everyone hear it.

Until next time,

The Martingales

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Almost done...

So, the album... we went into the studio for two days in late December, just as promised, and we recorded all the instruments for twelve songs. We went back last week and did a vocal session, and got half of the vocals done. We're going one more time this weekend to finish up. Then it'll be mixed, mastered, and then we'll make copies to bring to our gigs and all that. We're pretty excited about it - it's sounding exactly as we want it to sound.

That Jeff at Phonetic Sound Studios is quite fun to work with - thanks Jeff!

Keep your ears and eyes out. We haven't thought about it too much yet, but we'll probably do a release party show sometime soon...