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“Nothing Is In Vain” Making-Of Video!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Here in England we are not celebrating this American tradition but we still want to use this day to say a big thank you to all of you! Besides the core MonaLisa Twins team and some supporters in the industry it is YOU lovely people from all over the world who make living our dream possible every day! You can all pat yourself on the back and then imagine a virtual MonaLisa hug from us. We are very thankful for having you as our fans and friends 🙂

Making-Of Video of  “Nothing Is In Vain”

When We're Together DVD Cover Art

As a little treat we just uploaded the making-of clip of our new single “Nothing Is In Vain“.

It features on our newly released DVD “When We’re Together“. We’ve been working on the “Nothing Is In Vain” video for several months, collecting and shooting footage between other projects. We have never filmed anything underwater before nor on a trampoline, but it was a blast. You’ll also see planets explode and giant goldfish swim through the universe. The editing was challenging but worth it, and in this making-of video we show you how we did some of the special effects.

It will be the last behind-the-scenes clip of this DVD that we will publish on YouTube. So if you want to see how we created the rest of our music videos make sure you get a copy in our online store.

We thank you an aweful lot for your great feedback so far,
Mona & Lisa

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“When We’re Together” Album DVD is out!

Today we are releasing our first ever official DVD

It contains all the videos for the original songs of our debut album “When We’re Together“. It also has more than 30 minutes of exclusive bonus footage and behind-the-scenes material by which we’re talking you through the process of creating each one of the 11 videos!

More than two years after releasing the album CD we are proud to have finished this monster project. Not many artists can say that they have made a music video for every single song that they have put out on CD but we are beyond happy that we did! Before we release new original material we wanted to once again celebrate our debut album and give all the videos the proper packaging. Plus, it’s the perfect Christmas present, isn’t it?

Pssst! Santa’s in town already!

In fact we saw TWO of them in Liverpool today, giving their everything to escape the fans that somehow had found out about the new MonaLisa Twins DVDs. We immediately whipped out our cameras and filmed these poor guys running for their lives to save some of the DVDs and stuff for you. Here’s the proof. So be quick, don’t say nobody warned you!

X-Mas Special: – 10 % in our Web Shop!

When We're Together DVD Cover Art


Cash in your “XMAS2014” discount code until 24th December 2014!

The Christmas season is an excellent time for us to thank you for your long-time friendship, loyalty and continuous support. Without you making music would not be half the fun that it is!

So here’s our Xmas present for you: If you are looking for a Christmas gift or want to buy a little something for yourself, you’ll get 10 % discount on everything in our web shop until 24th December 2014. So feel free to empty our stock and give our new DVD, our CDs, T-shirts, coffee mugs, mouse pads and posters to everyone you know!

All you have to do is type “XMAS2014” in the “Discount Code” bar after you checked out with your shopping cart and then click “Apply Coupon”. The discount code will work till the 24th of December 2014 and you can use it not only once but TWICE (just in case you forgot something ;)!

We wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas,
Mona & Lisa

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“The Wide, Wide Land” Making-Of Video!

Another week, another video! We are slowly getting around to putting together all our “Making Of” clips, and we finished the one for “The Wide, Wide Land” just in time – the official music video passed 15,000 views yesterday!

At the day of the shooting with the marching band it was freezing, and we’ve certainly never been as cold before (It might not look like that, but the wind was PIERCING!). At least that made everyone involved remember that day forever!

Credits & big thanks to:
– Rudolf Wagner (dad ;)), David Prokop and Thomas Fuchs for shooting this video!
– Our friends in the marching band starring Philipp Wolf & Sascha Ortner (snares), Martina Waluch (bass drum) & Michael Mozeth (bass), Karina Loeffler (trombone) & Christoph Unger (trumpet), Roland Franze (cymbals) and Stefan Schwarzbach (shaker)!
– Our dad and stepmum for the fantastic teamwork!

Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa

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Video cutting “The Wide, Wide Land”

MonaLisa Twins working on video cutting "The Wide, Wide Land" at their recording studio.

During the last weeks we did lots of filmshooting for our next video “The Wide, Wide Land”. Unfortunately the weather didn’t like us that much and so we had to postpone the shootings many a time. Besides it had become necessary to “quickly” upgrade processing power and memory capacity of our computers so that we are able to process this huge amount of data at all.

Now we are all geared up …

… and meanwhile we have finished the shootings and are diligently working on cutting and editing the material. We are experimenting a lot with new filming techniques and effects and we can promise you even now that the new video will be something very special!

Let yourself be surprised! Now wer’re back to Video cutting “The Wide, Wide Land”.
Mona & Lisa

 

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Debut Album Is At The Pressing Plant!

Finally our new album “When We’re Together” is at the pressing plant!

Now we can’t change a thing about the content anymore – can’t make a Snare louder or a guitar more quiet. After pretty much 2 years of dedicated work it is done! The album is in at the pressing plant.
It is a little bit nerve-wracking to know that they are making so many CDs and in case we made a mistake it would be on every single one of them. But at the same time it’s very relieving and good to know that the studio- and artwork of the album is now completed. We proof-listened to the recordings over and over again, making sure that we brought the best out of every song.

We dare to say that some of you guys are really gonna enjoy our new music. Personally we are very proud of the outcome. We also put a lot of effort into the whole artwork of the CD. In the booklet you’ll find a page with photo and lyrics for every individual song!
Before we are going to release the album and start with the live shows there is still a lot to be done. We need to get the website ready, with all stories, photos, videos, audios, download-files and shop-features, film the first music videos/trailer … I’m sure we won’t get bored.

Lots of love,
Mona & Lisa

 

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Music and Pizza

MonaLisa Twins working on their debut album 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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Back Home In Austria After Successful Trip

Mona at Musikmesse Frankfurt 2011

Our trip to Germany is over and we are back home again.

Visiting the Frankfurt Musikmesse and the Music Store in Cologne was a blast. We really enjoyed it and learned extremely much about guitars and technical stuff. We’re now going to look through all the flyers, information and booklets we got there. We’ve saved all the photos taken there and started recording a new cover song we want to make for you.  We plan on using some of the video footage from our trip. Now that we’re back home we’ll record with the new guitars we just bought and which sound awesome so far. In a few days we’ll start cutting the video and in about a week you should be able to watch it online. Fun, fun, fun!

Mona & Lisa

 

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Shooting New Music Videos in California

Shooting Hotel California in Palmdale

The last three weeks our Dad and us have been shooting the music videos for “California Dreaming”, “Hotel California” and “San Franscico”.

While doing so we have been horse riding, motorboating, busking & dressing up and whale whatching. We went to Hollywood, San Fransisco, Palmdale and many different beaches in California.

It wasn’t always easy to find the right location to shoot but with the help of local friends we always found the place we were looking for. Shooting was a LOT of fun and we got to see many different places and met quite interesting people. We didn’t have a script or anything planned out – just our imagination and individual ideas that we wanted to realize in those videos. I think that is going to make the cutting of the video really interesting. We have a whole lot of cassettes with footage on them and as soon as we come home from our trip we will start working on them.

For the music video of “California Dreaming” we might also shoot a few more scenes back home in Austria, for the “All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey” – part ;). We are looking forward to the final outcome and hope you’ll have as much fun watching them as we had doing them. You’ll get to see them in a couple of weeks.

Love,
Mona & Lisa