"I had a rough idea of what I was looking for. Daniel took all the ideas and squeezed the best out of them !"
We can say that we really spent a lot of time doing guitars in this album. We worked out riffs, we did orchestration, and we then added some spice and cool arrangements and finally worked out the solos.
Although the songs were cool without solos, there were lots of incredible ideas that Jose had in mind for them, some since we started writing and others were worked out by Jose during the rhythm and orchestration sessions. We didn't want to go towards the "virtuoso" kind of solo. We wanted just the opposite: raw, tearing solos that could kick the atmosphere at the end of some songs. So we simply started to play around.
Once again, we let ourselves be guided by the music. We experimented and had fun until finally we found the right mood for each song. There were countless options to consider in every part and Daniel was really clever to identify the ones that worked best. He pointed our ears in the right direction again and again. The result, well… you judge for yourselves!!!
We've got two more Studio Diaries episodes coming : Vocal Sessions by Øyvind Osa (probably the one that many of you have been expecting for quite long) and Overdub Sessions by Daniel Bergstrand.... They will be available very soon !!!
