Vena Portae Mixing Dungeon

Ruben has today commenced mixing!

Flames and Fury

One of our songs is called 'Flames & Fury' and is a drunken duet about possessive, obsessive, destructive love. Frithiof Engzell (Ruben's brother), listened to us record this song in the Molnbo house and it inspired the fabulous drawing above.

So Emily and Dom are back in the UK and Ruben is in Sweden. He's just finished doing some vocal harmonies to a few tracks. Next on the agenda is to get The Red Clay Halo to put a few string/accordion lines on a song called 'Magpies Carol.'

Rocking the f**k out...with slippers on.

A little video from our time in Molnbo, Sweden.

Band photo by Johan Bergmark

Photo by Johan Bergmark

So we're on our second last day of recording the debut Vena Portae album. It's been a wonderful time hiding away from the world in the snow-covered surrounds of Mölnbo making music and experimenting with different instruments and ideas. We're really, really pleased with how it's all sounding and looking forward to sharing it with you in the future. We'll keep you posted on plans for release , gigs etc. Thanks, Emily

Sour Herrings Part 2

And here is the sequel. The eating of the fermented fish.

Sour Herrings Part 1

So we're still in Molnbo, having an incredible time making our debut Vena Portae album. We've almost finished all the overdubs and will tonight move to doing vocals. Here's a little Swedish story for you told via a home video...

The past few days...