Artwork finished!

Me and Sami spent a rainy Sunday at a friend’s place (thanks, Lauri!) laying out the texts for the EP’s booklet and the disc itself. We received the final versions of the artwork from our cover artist last week and now, with the credits, lyrics and thanks in place, everything’s ready! We’re still scanning through the pages for any typos, but by noon tomorrow both the CD and the booklet will be finalized and heading for print.

There’s one last hurdle before the release date: finishing our new website. Stay tuned!

- Jari / Embreach

Day at the tortoise races

Having escaped from the studio a few weeks back, things have kinda slowed down for us. But no need to worry, this is just the calm before the storm

After listening to the mastered CD for a while now, we think it’s a winner: no further adjustments needed, everything sounds great in the first version already! With the CD 100% finished, we’ve also started to work on our new website. Expect more content, a much better looking interface and a bunch of cool extras!

As for the EP’s artwork: last week was all about trying to force-feed our visions to our cover artist and getting first sketches back from her This week, the project’s on hold since she’s on vacation, but once she gets back we’ll probably be able to finish the artwork during next week. Still a lot of small challenges to tackle!

Stay tuned!

Jari / Embreach

Pending artwork

We’ve approached a couple of artists we’ve come across on the internets, asking whether they’d be interested in working on the cover art for the EP with us. Things looks pretty promising, hopefully we can find an artist to work with this week, still waiting for a response from a few people.

The finalized, mastered version of the EP is still sounding great! Can’t wait to release it to everybody out there. Soon!

Anxiously,
Jari / Embreach

EP mastered; artwork next

We spent 6 hours at Finnvox on Friday evening, and the EP is now mastered! It’s sounding great through our home and car stereos, ghettoblasters, ipods and what-have-yous. Listening to “Her Grace” and our new EP side-by-side, Minerva (the mastering wiz) remarked that it was hard for her to believe they were from the same band. I guess that’s a good thing

Now that the CD is mastered, we’ll be working hard to finish the artwork and our new website. Stay tuned for more updates during next week!

Jari / Embreach