April 2017 we were in Israel recording (audio) 8 TV-programs for Keren Kajemat – an Israeli organisation planted every tree that grow in Israel (250 million),water, research and all the environment that needs to get the dessert to blossom. The programs will be broadcasted this fall.

A serie of 4 TV-programs was recorded at The House Sweden in Gothenburg that will be broadcasted in May. We were recording the sound of the production.

We  run TV sound at Kanal10 Sweden and Kanal10 Asia – sometimes frequently and some times less frequently. The programs are live TV shows with many different music artists and guests as well as recording of morning shows. We also have  educational program for the staff of the TV station and make the music for some TV shows.

In November we were to Old Barn Drum Studio to record with the Swedish grammy awarded artist James Hollingworth. Most famous for his epic children songs James is a great artist with a warm personality. As the studio owner/drummer/sound engineer Anders Köllerfors has a large collection of Ehrlund Microphones (more than 25 of them) we suggested to try a new thing: Put a pair of Ehrlund Microphones at the top of the Fender Rhodes electric piano to capture some of the mechanic. It turned out great 🙂

With a small portable studio for composing we went to the beautiful and historic city of Williamsburg VA in October-November and wrote songs together with Eleonora Lahti. It turned out to everything between small ideas to complete songs in a pace of two songs per day. Will continue to develop the songs eventually as a base for an upcoming album with Eleonora Lahti.

In March we will record a CD of 9 songs on location in Kampala, Uganda. It is the second CD we record in Uganda, last was 2013. We are now working with the arrangements of the songs and making music tracks to be used when recording vocals (plus piano on two songs). As last time we will make a simple project studio out of a hotel room for a week. Studio environment is challenging when tracking vocals but it is still far away from this kind of recordings when one must find creative solutions for any problem not normally appear when recording vocals in a studio – and thats an art we like, the art of recording.

To record vocals in a hotel room is challenging, not at least with traffic noise that mattresses on the wall won’t eject with a regular studio condenser microphone. Therefor we will try out the new Ehrlund D microphone for lead vocals. For choir we use an Ehrlund M Microphone, all hooked up to a portable sound card with bused power supply for the condenser microphone when the electrical power is not stable but frequently goes down in the heart of Africa and a laptop computer. It will then be brought back to our production studio in Stockholm, Sweden for editing, mixing and mastering during spring time.