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Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – New Christmas Video

Our Christmas Video is here …
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas!! 

You can buy real fir trees and their fake companions everywhere now, high budget tear-jerking adverts are back, and it’s blasting Christmas music everywhere. The holidays are near!

We hope you are having a peaceful and jolly December and can tackle whatever life throws at you with more love and lightness 🙂

Enjoy our little contribution to this year’s celebrations and let’s make this holiday season magical!

Stay groovy,
Mona and Lisa
PS: This also happens to be the 100th video on our YouTube channel!

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Woodstock meets Liverpool – John Sebastian is here!

Do you believe in magic? 

Yesterday we took a trip to the airport. … Not to go anywhere but to pick up a very special person. Yeah, you’ve guessed it!
Woodstock legend John Sebastian is currently visiting us in the UK, walking the same grounds as our humble selves! If his name doesn’t sound familiar to you right away, then his music most certainly will. He’s had countless hits with his band The Lovin’ Spoonful as well as during his remarkable solo career. We are beyond proud and excited to have had him play on our new album ORANGE (out in 5 days!!!). 😉

While working out the concrete concept for our new video some weeks ago we kept coming back to the thought that we really could not NOT have John Sebastian starring in our official video. So we sent him this message titled CRAZY IDEA, asking him if he were up to coming over to England, and back came: “D’ya think they’ll let my Klon Centaur pedal through customs?”
Three weeks later the gates of Manchester airport swung open and the man himself stepped out, ready to spend some fun days of video filming, recording work and even a radio show with us.
Jealous, are you?
Well, we‘re kind enough to share him with you. The official music video for our new single “Waiting For The Waiter” is in the works, and while you’re reading this we are most likely on set, shooting the final scenes … Some editing to present him in the proper light … and then he’s yours, too!

But before that, tune in to BBC Radio Manchester tomorrow, 25th of September at 10 am GMT (convert to your timezone here) to hear us and John talk to Mike Sweeney on his radio show. Just click on this streaming link. BBC recently made it mandatory to have an account in order to listen live, so you might want to set that up already. We will announce the exact time that we will be on air on our social media pages and will post (photo) updates on our Instagram and Twitter over the next few days, so feel free to follow us there!

Pre-Orders are on their way!

By the way, all pre-orders have now been handed over to Mr. Postman, so keep an ear out for your doorbell ringing next week! Of course, you can still pre-order until the release date (the 29th of September) to get your CD/Vinyl signed.

In the meantime, get yourself in the mood with the “Waiting For The Waiter” lyrics video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YDstMS0Vgw 

Stay ORANGE,
Mona and Lisa

 

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Abbey Road Studio One – What a Day!

MonaLisa Twins in front of Abbey Road Studios entrance

So yesterday we spent the whole day at Abbey Road Studios!

We were recording and filming in Studio One – what a day! There is so much history in this place it’s unbelievable! The rooms are filled with legendary equipment and the walls are covered in legendary moments. If only they could talk!

We got told that while recording we stood in the same spot that Mick Jagger, Keith Moon and Marianne Faithfull were sat when the Beatles did the live broadcast of “All You Need Is Love”. They still use the same microphones as they did back then, and everything still looks like we all know it from the countless pictures and videos.

We recorded a few songs there with Steve Harley and afterwards got turned into holograms with a special filming technique! And yeah, it was as much fun as it sounds! We can’t wait to see the finished results.

We will keep you posted as we get updated on any news.

So thrilled to have been part of this experience! We recorded in Abbey Road Studio One – surreal!

Mona and Lisa

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Abbey Road Studios, Here We Come!

MonaLisa Twins walking across Abbey Road

We think subconsciously we all make some kind of bucket list for our lives. Ever since we started our musical journey at the age of 13 we dreamed big. 9 years, 3 albums, 92 music videos, 8 million YouTube views and a lot of sweat and tears later, we are so happy and lucky for all the boxes we were already able to tick:

Moving to England – ✔
our first big tour – ✔
a regular spot at the Cavern Club – ✔
meeting some of our musical heroes – ✔
working with some of our musical heroes – ✔
having our music played on national radio – ✔

… we could go on but the reason we’re saying this is not because we want to brag about all the cool things that have happened so far but because we are about to tick the next major big fat box in just a few days! ABBEY ROAD, HERE WE COME!!!! Yes, this week we will be recording some live sessions together with Steve Harley at the most famous recording studio in the world. YEEEHAAA! Life is good!

Much love to you all,
Mona and 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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Making Progress: Recordings Done!

When We're Together To Do List, Recordings done

Recordings done! Today we finished all the recoring work so we can now start mixing! Even though you didn’t get to read that much on our website lately we are still working hard on our new music, We truly can’t wait to present you the new album.

More details will be announced soon!

Until then, have a great time, stay happy and healthy and keep smiling!

Mona & Lisa

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Album Recordings Nearly Finished

When We're Together Audio recording in Cubase

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

Lisa in studio while recording When We're Together album

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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Studio Work – MonaLisa’s First Album

Mastering the Monalisa Twins' First Album

We told you about the CD we are gonna make until the end of this year.

We live-recorded the two concerts we did in October and are now putting it all together to create our first album. We re-recorded a few tracks again but tempo and most of the things you hear are still from the live concert. We coulnd’t use all of the recordings as our mixing console (with which we recorded) had problems with one of the “cards” in it so it didn’t record a clean sound. Some of the tracks just had these funny whooshing noises on it so we had to record them again. Still, the tempo and most of the tracks are the original live recordings from our concert in October.

We are quite proud of what we have so far …

… but we (and especially our Dad) still have quite some work ahead of us. The CD should be finished before Christmas though and you can pre-order it at any time by contacting us. We are looking forward to releasing it!

Stay tuned,
Mona & Lisa