Had an amazing time shooting this video in Vegas. : )

Well I don’t know how I kept this secret for so long like I did. Been itching to tell you about this for ages. It all started a couple of years ago, I was on a hotel rooftop in São Paulo when I got a phone call from an excited BT, “I think we just started a band” he said on the phone, I remember looking out to the skyline for a few awkward seconds of silence before replying “Yes we did, we started a band’.

It was something that has grown over the past two years, we had no Idea what we were going to sound like and no plan, just a huge love and respect for everything analog and also for our musical heroes, bands like Depeche Mode, Blue Nile, OMD to name just a few.

The whole record was recorded in a basement in Baltimore, a magical place called Analog Land. The studio is owned and  maintained by analog specialist and guru Jeffrey Koepper. The array of vintage synths we had to play with was insane, Arp 2600′s (yes plural), Oberheim’s, SEM’s, System 100′s, Prophet’s, Polaris’s, Moog’s, MS20′s, Jupiter’s, to name a few, piles of floppy disks, step sequencers and a mound of patch cables. BT made most of the snares, kicks by hand. We were in deep. The end result is a record that sounds like it fell out of 1983.

We recorded the whole record WITHOUT a computer, a very tricky and at times stressful task but highly rewarding and it has definitley influenced the sound of the record not just sonicaly but structuraly too.

This is just the beginning, we have major plans this year for All Hail The Silence and we can not wait to take the show on the road.

Hope you enjoy the free download of ‘Looking Glass”, we have another 17 analog diamonds to share with you too.

You can download the track ‘Looking Glass’ for FREE here - http://www.tweetforatrack.com/AllHailTheSilence

You can follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/thesilence

And on Facebook here. http://www.facebook.com/pages/All-Hail-The-Silence/182301601840517

Just a little note to say that I am now using Instagram to share my photos with you. Its a great platform for this and It integrates into the website ace! Look forward to sharing my pictures with you..

Well its been a full on week in the studio over here in a very oddly mild Wigan. The music business is usually still asleep for another few weeks this time of year, its always a good time to get stuck in to new ideas.I have been feeling very creative and for the prev 2 weeks I have been forcing mince pies and unhealthy amounts of Christmas cheer down my throat and not had time to make music.

Had a lot of fun experimenting with the TC Helicon Voice Live Touch + Valhalla ÜberMod. Valhalla make the most inspiring plug ins I have ever used, you should go and try them if you get chance. Worked long hours this week but its payed off, 5 really amazing new songs for my upcoming Armada record written, I just need to spend more time on lyrics now.

One of the songs is awful.

Had some other great news this week too about some upcoming collaborators. Will keep you up to date.

Have a great weekend! : )

C x