Hilastherion

The second part of my vacation starts officially tomorrow. This year I decided to take two weeks vacation, work for one week and continue my vacation two more weeks. It's worked fine for me, I feel great. And I feel even better after my recording session last Friday. I recorded some clean vocals for Hilastherion's second album. Here's a YouTube clip with some samples from the drum recordings.

This album is going to be better than the previous one. And I'm not saying that just because I joined the band only after the first album, I'm saying it because it's a fact. However, the first album is really good too. On this page you can listen to some samples of it. If you happen to like it and would like a copy, you can buy it here.

Well, that's enough self advertising for today. Updates will follow as soon as there is anything to update.

/H

Vacation coming up

Only a couple of days left now, then I'm off on vacation. Naturally, I'm not going to spend a lot of time online. I have better things to do, like reading, swimming and thinning a little in the forest at our summer cottage. And what could be a better setup for a Rush video? Here's The Trees.



Enjoy! I'll be back some time in August.

/H

TNMS

I would like to take this opportunity to mention one of my favourite places on the entire web: TNMS - The National Midday Sun, the home for European Rush fans. I have been a member on this site since 2004, and it has brought me lots of joy and interesting discussions through all these years. The atmosphere is just how I like it, the tone can be a bit harsh from time to time, but if you just remember not to take comments and/or posts to seriously you'll be just fine. It was through this forum that I managed to get 7th row seats at Rush concert in Stockholm in 2004. So if you live in Europe and you like Rush and a bit of banter, come join the fun.

/H

Other music

I listen to almost any kind of music, as long as it's good. But there's one genre that I can't stand, and that's the Swedish "dansbandsmusik". I'm not even going to soil my blog by posting any more about it here.

But lately, apart from the obvious listening to the new Rush album, I've been exploring older music. And I don't mean older as in 70s or 80s, I mean even all the way back to the 20s and 30s. Early blues, jazz and all that stuff. And along the way, I have found other stuff that I've really enjoyed. Some of it has been bands that I've already heard, some of it bands that I've only heard of, and the rest has been entirely new stuff for me. For example, yesterday I realised that I've never really explored Rockabilly, even though I like Stray Cats. So now I've started with them and I'm working my way into the happy world of Rockabilly, Psychobilly and that sort of music. One of the first interesting acquaintances i came across was Reverend Horton Heat.

So here we go with one of the songs I've listened to lately:



/H

O2 - May 2013!

I'm excited, last night I bought the tickets for Rush concert at O2 Arena in London May 2013. That's the biggest part of the puzzle done! The rest should be a piece of cake. Plane tickets and some place to stay over that particular weekend should be much easier to arrange. Well, now it's time for some breakfast.

/H