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Hi Tim,
That’s amazing to hear, thanks for sharing that with us! We hope you’re enjoying your hikes 🙂
For us what’s next is to record more original music for the upcoming album. That’s priority #1 right now and consumes most of our days. We are loving it and have gotten into quite a good rhythm lately, so we’re trying to avoid any other projects and distractions at the moment as best as we can.
If we’re talking sport-adventure type things then we’re doing a half marathon in a couple of weeks and some smaller races throughout the rest of the year but we’re dialing that back a bit to leave more time in the studio. It’s all about the right balance 😉
The remainder of the month will be exciting and with no shortage of work so we’re staying busy!
Groovy greeting to Pennsylvania!
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Hi Diana,
What a sweet story and I am sure a treasured memory for your parents. And how cool that they were just on a dance floor with everyone else! … although I can’t imagine the sound being very good that way. 😉
We would have loved to see them live in later years but I don’t think they performed much in Europe throughout the 2010’s. It’s sad that they are both gone now, but all of us will keep their music alive and their songs will live on, there is no doubt about that.
Thanks for sharing that with us and the kind words!
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What do you mean, of course she got it right the first time! 😉
(We will be probably cutting together a behind-the-scenes video soon, and I think we have about an hours’ worth of footage of Lisa kicking that damn ball so you’ll see then!)
Have a great day!
Mona
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Hi Denny!
Yes, that’s me on the 3 early-access songs and I will also be playing the drums on the rest of the album. It’s been fun to be behind the kit much more again this past year, and I think we’ve come up with some interesting grooves 🙂
New music coming soon!
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Hi Jacki!
Oh, the possibilities are endless! Both our drum teachers growing up loved doing “Stomp” inspired ensemble pieces with us and over the years we have done performances with brooms, cookie jars, cooking knives and wooden spoons, newspapers and rubbish bins. It was always so much fun and we’ve carried over that tradition into the recording studio quite a lot of times as you pointed out. 🙂One of our new songs that will be on the upcoming album will include air bubbles being blown into water – we just did some recordings for that last week. That’s an unexpectedly cool sound!
Who knows what else we will come up with before the record is finished but so far that’s probably the most “off the wall” sound we’ve caught on tape 🙂
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Hi Kenneth,
Thanks for joining the MLT Club, we warmly welcome you!
The acoustic guitar I played at the Cavern Club and Lisa in the “Here Comes The Sun” video is a custom Jumbo Martin guitar with a COSM pick up. I absolutely love it and have used it for so many different projects now.
I think the Epiphone is perfect for its price and is a true workhorse that I always have lying around the house somewhere 🙂In this Q&A video we talk quite a lot about our favourite acoustic guitars including the EJ200 and the Martin so perhaps you’d like to check it out. We also go into our favourite strings and what gauge we use.
Thanks for being here, I hope you’re having a nice week!
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We usually always write and record simultaneously, so we don’t first compose all the songs and then record them in one go, which makes it hard to answer that question. So far we have released 10 albums over 14 years so on average that’s 16.8 month per album, 😉
Only two of those albums were originals though, which always take us significantly longer to finish. We are busy with our next original album right now which has been in the works on/off for several years now. If we were to solely work on an original album and nothing else we could probably get it done in a few months but that’s never how life works and we always have so many projects going on at the same time!
I don’t think that’s a bad thing though because the life experiences in between our original releases always influence our songwriting 🙂
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Hi Diana,
The story basically started with an Instagram comment Pete had left under one of our posts. To think that Pete Townshend still browses the internet for artists he likes and leaves encouraging messages on their profiles warms our hearts so much, and we hope he knows how much that means to us.
Since then we have stayed in loose contact and wrote back and forth a few times, and we have told him about some of our connections to him and his music. He is a fascinating musician, writer and person, and we hope to meet up one day!
Also thanks for the congratulations on our marathon. We know you posted this message a while ago and we apologise for only getting around to it now. We didn’t end up getting a T-shirt for the event but we’ve got the vlog as a memory now, which is much better anyway. 😉
Peace & Love to you!
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Hi Paul!
Haha, yes it is a neat little addition to our duo sessions that I came across a while ago. Here is a link to one of them: https://www.thomann.de/gb/lp_lp188_foot_tambourine.htm
I’ve also stepped/tapped on a regular tambourine on the ground before but they tend to slip around that way. I can recommend the little foot tambourines (there is a shaker, too) for acoustic settings, and if you’re playing around with a looper I’m sure they can come in really handy (if you find a good way to mic them up)! Let me know if you end up getting one!
Good luck with your recordings 🙂
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Hi Bill & Maddie,
We do have all four seasons here in the UK, sometimes all in one day 🙂 But generally speaking, they are much less pronounced than back in Austria or maybe Pittsburgh. Here we get hardly any snow in the winter, and everyone is getting excited over 22°C (72°F) in the summer, haha!
The autumns/falls here are gorgeous though and we love the changing colours of the leaves. None of that is happening yet, thank god, and autumn is still a little bit away, but if we take a hiking trip in a few months and don’t forget, we’ll share some photos!
Pennsylvania must be beautiful at that time of the year too, with all the woods and green hills of the state! It’s great to be able to live somewhere that you truly enjoy,and we send all the best across the pond to you two!
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Hi Darryl!
As far as we know only one of our current neighbours knows who we are and we asked them to help us maintain a low profile. God knows what the others must be thinking about our strange sleeping hours and noises coming from the studio!
So far we haven’t had any real issues, touch wood!
The noise complaint came in during the first few months of living in the UK during a hot summer. We hadn’t had an air conditioner installed yet and had to rehearse in a hot conservatory for an upcoming show …. with the windows open. ????Since then it has been a peaceful coexistence with our neighbours!
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Monas left shoulder was often covered in bruises from me accidentally hitting her with my headstock ???? So it was more of a question if there ever was a gig where i didn’t hit her.
I just had to promise her not to leave any loose guitar strings sticking out of the tuners so I wouldn’t also poke her eye out!
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Hi Jung!
Thanks! As with most things we do, our getting-in-shape these past few years was basically a DIY project, initially fuelled by blind enthusiasm.
We’ve never had a personal trainer or customised training program but after buying some weights, running shoes, etc. we have done a lot of research over the years and learnt a lot about training and nutrition. By now we have a basic understanding of these things and have stuck with regular exercise for at least 4 or 5 years.
For the marathon we followed one of the many free training programs on the internet (this one) and now we just run a few times a week for “fun” whenever we find the time.
We often do the split training weight lifting routines from Fitness Blender, some Yoga with Adriene and we also do weekly HIIT training with a fitness group called Metafit.
While we can recommend all of that, I think it’s just most important to do something, even if it’s just a walk around the block, every day. Just to build a habit of looking at daily movement as something that’s non-negotiable 🙂
I started off with little challenges like 30 days of yoga or learning to do a handstand etc. And if you’re the type of person that likes group activities, I think finding a fitness class that you enjoy or a running buddy can be huge.
All the good things they say about exercising – mental clarity, focus, happiness … we can absolutely vouch for that and I think it has made us more confident, balanced and productive. 🙂 I’m not sure if it made us more creative but it’s easier to channel creativity into actual projects.
I’m so glad we started this journey and I think it made everything else in our lives easier and more enjoyable!
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I’m not growing any vegetables this year but there are loads of flowers which make me excited every time I look outside.
We tried a few new things like growing Astilbes from bulbs and loads of Begonias, and it all worked surprisingly well. I just wish we’d get a little more sun until the end of summer but apparently a sunny stretch is around the corner, so fingers crossed 🙂
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Thanks, we’re glad you are enjoying the CDs!
I can’t see ourselves recording another full Christmas album anytime soon but we’ll probably keep up the tradition of releasing a video for Christmas. 🙂
We really want to focus more on our original music and some other projects in the foreseeable future. There are so many more things we would like to explore creatively so we have to prioritise some projects over others … We wish there were more hours in a day! 🙂
