Busy times...

Hello y'all,

A small update from me; I've been busy with a lot of stuff recently. Main focus of course is my first solo-album (if you don't count the countless tracks and albums I did that actually feel like solo efforts too...). We spent an amazing time with the ICP family earlier in March. I had Harry Bum Tschak on drums. He's an amazing player and an awesome dude to have around. I met him when I was working in Germany. He became an awesome friend and as I was writing a lot at nighttime in my hotelsuite he just was the no. 1 choice for the project!
He's also got an excellent knowledge of Neue Deutsche Welle music. I have a weak spot for that! Remember the genius of Trio?
Anyways, I tied him to my old friend and guitarbrother Wouter Planteijdt. What a guy! If he'd packed his backs back in the hairband days he would have George Lynched out the whole LA scene. I'm not kidding you! Luckily his tastes focus to stuff like The Band and the lot, Miles Davis and just plain good music.
Man, what a combination! Like Shelle, the inhouse ICP engineer said, it was the perfect combination of tremendous fun and in the middle of the night noticing the incredible amount of work we'd done that day!
Add the top notch food and some leisural wine intake on top of that...
I'm going through it now, trying some mixing options... leaving stuff out... adding stuff... You know...
I've also booked an amazing studio in Spain, called El Cortijo to record some backing vocals and basses with Ken Stringfellow of Posies, R.E.M., Big Star, Disciplines and what-not-fame. I've always been a big fan, so you can imagine I'm quite excited about that.
I'll finish mixing right after that because I got the call to produce a new Acda & De Munnik album. Exciting, because we're (again) taking a new direction here. Always great to be in the studio with some of your best friends.
In meantime De Dijk's on full touring blast, so I thank Digidesign and their Mbox Micro 2 for keeping me at pace studiowise. Literally mixing at 110 mph!
Which reminds me; I gotta finish the Perneau mixes too. Exciting new band from Holland doing the bam bam guitar and drums thing.

Cheers from Amsterdam!

Love,

JB