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Music and Pizza

We just wanted to give you a quick update on what is going on at the moment.

As you might have already heard, we finished the recordings for our new album “When we’re together”.

It’s going to be a CD with 11 original songs and at the moment we’re still mixing them. Quite a tricky business!
It’s like you’ve got all the ingredients for a great meal. But now you have to find the perfect recipe for the “fine-tuning”. You pretty much know how it’s supposed to taste in the end but in order to get there you have to find the right spices and figure out the right cooking time etc. You can prepare a meal with the same basic ingredients in a 100 different ways and it will taste completely different each time.

When you eat pizza you wouldn’t want the dough, the tomatoes, the ham, the cheese and the spices served separately. One that’s shredded in a blender won’t make you happy either. Sorry for our rambling about food here, seems like we are just a little hungry. That makes us think about the guitar track as a piece of bacon … anyway, we are still working to make each song as tasty as possible.

Besides that, we’re spending the rest of the time working on the album layout (we’re shooting individual booklet fotos for every single song). A completely new website with a whole bunch of new features is also in the works
We know you don’t really see us doing much but believe us, we’re working like crazy behind the curtain which we will drop soon!
Again thanks for your patience, we’re now going to order some Pizza and certainly won’t blend it.

Cheers,
Mona & Lisa

 

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Seeing Paul McCartney Live in Cologne

Yesterday was SUCH an amazing day!

We flew to Cologne/Germany to see a 3 hours concert of Paul McCartney at the Cologne Lanxess Arena. We’re still overwhelmed and a bit dizzy in the head. The 3-hour concert already owns a spot in the “5 best moments of our live” 😉
For us it was so great to see our biggest idol and the man we look up to the most live on stage, No now we’re still running around the house with the biggest smiles on our faces. We’ll certainly never ever forget that day!

Paul McCartney on stage in Cologne

Before the concert we met up with a lovely local fan and today (before we the took the plane back to Vienna) we visited the new “Music Store” in Cologne. It moved and is even bigger now! You could probably spent days in there!
We just came back from the airport and we’ll go to bed soon but we just had to tell you about this first!
Tomorrow it’s time to get back to work!

Mona & Lisa

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Album Recordings Nearly Finished

Hey guys! The album work is coming along really well and we’re nearly finished.

We did a lot of experimenting with some new equipment and vintage gear we got (also guitars). Finally we are getting closer to the sound we have in mind.
Unfortunately there have been some unexpected things coming up the last weeks that delayed work a bit but we are enjoying making this CD a lot and really try to make it as good as possible.
You can follow us on Facebook and Twitter to stay up to date and of course subscribe to our newsletter. It’s an easy way to talk to us and stay up to date and get to see some new photos and background info. More details will be announced soon! Nearly finished!

Take care!
Mona & Lisa

 

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CD Production Update – One Step At A Time

The last couple of months we have been working on our new album with original songs.

Here is a quick production update! We finished writing all of the songs and have recorded a lot of them already. As usual we’re working in our own recording studio with our Dad as the producer. It’s lots and lots of fun and we thank you guys for sticking with us even though we haven’t released much lately. We are working hard on the new CD though and are looking forward to presenting it to you. We’ll hopefully have it finished in a couple of months!

Have a great time,
Mona & Lisa

 

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While My Guitar Gently Weeps – New Video!

Late night show – It is 5 o’clock in the morning as I am writing this.

Yes, I’m forcing myself to write this NOW … more authentic ;). Lisa is at the studio with Dad giving the new song “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” the finishing touch. We worked all night as we are leaving tomorrow (well, today actually) for a short holiday with our little cousin.
For the video we used a lot of footage from our trip to the Frankfurt music trade fair and the Musicstore Cologne. The rest was filmed in our studio. The guitar parts were quite challenging but it I think they turned out pretty well. Thanks to our guitar teacher for letting us borrow his custom Fender! (Our Stratocaster-like guitar doesn’t have a decent Tremolo).

It was a great song to work on and we tried to make it sound close to the original with a bit of a MonaLisa signature. The new video will be up by the time you read this. Enjoy, and let us know how you like it!

Mona & Lisa

 

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Musikmesse Frankfurt 2011 – What An Experience

Today was the 2nd day at the fair.

We’ll still be here tomorrow and then leaving Saturday morning. This was beyond our expectations … We knew the Musikmesse Frankfurt was gonna be big but this is MASSIVE. There is just SO much to see! We spent the whole first day in just one building and there are like four or five of them. It is a lot of fun here – we are learning about a lot of stuff and got to test even more awesome guitars. We also decided that we wanted to do another cover song for you (as it will still take a while until you’ll get to hear the originals) so we are filming some things that we could use for the next music video. Won’t tell you the name of the song yet … get excited!

Mona & Lisa

 

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Music Store Köln (Cologne) – We’re In Heaven!

Today we spent the second day at the Music Store Köln.

It’s amazing here! We tested SO many guitars and stayed in the testing room for pretty much the whole day. We got to try out nearly everything we are interested in and now have a really good overview about what we need in order to get the sound we want. It’s really late at night here as we also visited the Vintage shop “Musikkeller Dorsten” after the Music Store Köln had closed. It’s a rather small Vintage shop (which we didn’t know before) in the north of Cologne that someone from the Music Store recommended to us. It was insane! SOOO many old guitars and basses! Of course we couldn’t leave empty handed …

Mona & Lisa

 

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Germany’s Waiting – Time For A Trip

We’re going to Germany!

Last week we decided that we wanted to visit the Musikmesse Frankfurt. It’s a big trade fair visited by thousands of people every year. We have never been there before and want to get an overview about what’s happening on the instrument & recording market. We will be there on the 6th, 7th and 8th of April. If anyone of you will be there just let us know so we can meet up.
Before we go to Frankfurt we’ll also stop in Cologne for two days (4th and 5th) and visit the Music Store Cologne, Europe’s biggest music shop. We’ll test lots and lots of guitars as we discovered recently that many instruments we wanted to try out are just not in stock here in Vienna. Again, if you live in Köln, let us know – Germany’s waiting! 

We are super excited!
Mona & Lisa

 

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All I Have To Do Is Dream – New Video!

We finally made a new cover video – All I Have To Do Is Dream!

Last week we went on a skitrip to Salzburg/Austria and decided to record a cover song there as we had to make a break from working on our new album at the studio back home. It’s a classic by the Everly Brothers which has a lot of nice harmonies: “All I Have To Do Is Dream”.
We recorded it live in a little room of our holiday house where the acoustics were quite nice. We also went outside and shot some footage to cut in the video. It snowed a lot while we were there so we had the beautiful white alps as a pretty background scenery. Even for us it is always amazing when we visit the western part of Austria with all the mountains and snow. We can’t wait to go back there next winter … Unfortunately there are no alps in Vienna.
We hope you like the video.

Lots of love,
Mona & Lisa