Day 9 in the studio - days and nights are blurring into one. So much has happened in the last 9 days that it’s getting hard to remember what happened on which day. Alison came into the studio today to record vocals on COME, DRAW NEAR, and SING WITH THE ANGELS.

Doing vocals is pretty fun, but pretty scary too. The microphones in the studio are insanely expensive, and they pick up everything. Every single little wrong note or slightly pitchy part is magnified and blasted out for everyone to hear. It can be pretty intimidating when there is a control room full of people listening to you sing. The flip side is that the microphones and compressors also make your voice sound amazing.

We’ve been working on a song called COME that was written by Trevor Siu who is one of the youth in our church. We’ve come up with a very crazy vocal part in the middle of song. It’s difficult to explain, but it’s got a bit of an Imogen Heap feel to it. Again, it’s great to be able to do stuff that you could never do live. It allows so much more creativity.

Darran is trying to convince us to do a re-mix of WE ARE CHAMPIONS and turn it into a dance track. What do you think? Would you like to hear The Vine Band remixed into a club track?

Days 10 and 11 in the studio - we are now at the exciting stage of the recording process where most of the music and vocals are done, and we are now applying the finishing touches.

Gideon came back into the studio today to record Glockenspiel on a couple of tracks. This is the first album that we are using the ‘glock’ on, and it sounds very awesome. It’s an instrument that sounds magical at times, and always seems to remind me of Christmas. Gideon is the master when it comes to adding finishing touches to songs.

The next day, we had Helen come in to the studio to record Cello on the track DRAW NEAR. I’ve always thought that cello is probably the most beautiful instrument there is. It has such a haunting sound to it, and I love the richness of the low notes. It was amazing to use a string trio on our last album, and adding string parts can really bring a song alive. Helen did an amazing job with her parts on the song, and it’s going to add another depth to the song and album.

Tomorrow, Andrew will be recording Mandolin on some tracks. It’s been so great to branch out and experiment with different instruments and to try out different sounds for this album. I really feel that we are ‘maturing’ on this album, and I’m so happy with the sounds that we are getting. Maybe I’ll play the ‘nose flute’ on a couple of tracks just to complete the picture!

Hi everyone,

we are super excited about this coming weekend - it’s a huge weekend for us, and we’d love to invite you all to share in the excitement with us. If you are in Hong Kong we would love to see you at one or both of the events below:

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WORSHIP CENTRAL HONG KONG - APRIL 23/24
Worship Central HK 2010 hits Hong Kong on April 23rd & 24th as a Friday night and all day Saturday event, hosted by Tim Hughes and Al Gordon with special guest speaker Andrew Gardener, and of worship by The Vine Band.

IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO REGISTER - download the registration form from the link below and bring it with you, along with your registration fee to the venue on Friday night. Remember to arrive early to allow time to register.
http://www.worshipcentral.org/events/23-24apr10-china-hk

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‘THE AGELESS MELODY’ LAUNCH PARTY - APRIL 25
We are officially launching our new album ‘The Ageless Melody’ this coming Sunday 25th April, at 4pm at The Vine. We are so excited to share this new project with you all and we hope you can come along and celebrate the launch with us on Sunday. Entrance if free. Visit the event link below for more details:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=101361606572313

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That’s all for now - we’ll keep you posted on the album release, and especially when it will be available on iTunes for all you folks who are overseas. Excited?