Description
Stonehenge Welcomes Careful drivers
“Stonehenge Welcomes Careful drivers” is the latest album released by Velvet Razor.
This is their Ninth album, which is bringing to the table a mixture of fun and hard rock.
Furthermore, it contains some sleazy rock, some atmospheric soulful pop-rock ballads
and also edgy hard and heavy rock.
Track listing
Recorded in November 2012 and released in April 2017, The tracks included are:
01. Take This Gun
02. Tears Me Apart
03. I Dream of You
04. Indigo Skies
05. Long Nights
06. Lord of Thunder
07. Lovers Lament
08. Prime Obsession
09. Thunder Child
10. Wild Rebel Woman
Recording Studio
In truth, recordings took place at the wonderful Opus studios in Grayshott Surrey.
Indeed, the band had arranged the recording sessions with the studio owner Tim Benson.
The sessions were presided over by ace audio engineer Thom Ashworth.
He was enthusiastic and very helpful. The recording stage was a dream process.
Recorded consecutively over a long weekend. It was three whole days and also early night
sessions over a Friday, Saturday and Sunday. In fact, the band sped through the recordings,
laying down a live scratch recording and then re-recording the individual parts.
Mixing nightmare
In fact, the mixing, guitar overdubs and re-recorded vocals phase did not go so smoothly.
The recorded stems and basic scratch mixes were taken to Albert Studios, Surrey. (Dave’s personal studio).
And this is when the nightmare began. In truth, plagued with computer problems, audio equipment failures,
BSOD’s and a lot of lost work. This was mostly due to transitioning from 32-bit to 64-bit architecture and software.
Using unstable operating systems (from rock solid Windows 7 32-bit moved over to wildly erratic and unstable Windows 7 64-bit)
and suffering from numerous firewire issues. Frank DeVille (studio engineer) and Dave fought to get the work completed.
Unfortunately, it was done in both their spare time, as Dave had a full-time job and Frank was often busy with other mixing
and recording projects. It was completed 4 years later at the beginning of 2017 after the band reviewed a number of mixes.
Listener’s Reviews
Testing out some of these songs on RadioAirplay this is what some of our listeners said:
Good lyrics… Zen, it’s very minimal, which is good…
..No screeching guitars on this one…
…has a kind of late 70’s feel to it. Very Cool, Guys! ”
…Awesome! …Indigo Skies kind of reminds me of U2
…”I dream of you, really cool vid! Amazing, actually!”
Further, to preview the songs and learn more about the band visit their main website
There are videos, interviews, reviews, a band bio and lists of their live performances.
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