Bow down before the might of female vocals

Another restless night, another productive day at the studio. The vocals are starting to come together and we have been priviledged to witness the work of many extremely gifted guest singers. Jules and Galzi were fantastic, just like we expected (and they will return here for more!), and a couple of songs have also been blessed with very, VERY beautiful female vocals by Saara. "Within" has become one of the favourite songs of the whole band, and this is mainly because of Saara's wonderful singing. Three cheers to this lovely lady! The same song is also the IR's first song ever to have a violin solo. Full respect to Valo for that. We owe you big time.

We have filmed some mean footage of the last couple of days, so you can expect more video here soon. This means that you too can witness Jules & Galzi in action, as well as other kinds of abnormal behaviour. Here there is no such thing as "another day at the office". Sometimes I come to believe that this whole experience is some kind of a dream that has no ending. Just when you think that you have finished something you realize, that you have ten other things to do. If I have sometimes wondered how some bands spend months after months in studio perfecting some album, well, no more. I presume that if we didn't have a deadline and had lots of money, we would spend here the whole spring. And would check in to the nearest asylum the minute we would walk out of here.

Ok, that's it for now. Take it easy. Silmät harottaa. Ei pysty.

-Saq