So, here we are in second week. Everything goes, like a monday. Sonia and Gilles arrive from Paris. We listen to the tapes. We plan everything for the week to see what songs we must work on so that the string quartet work on a safe basis. We installed an old Juno synthesizer to find new sounds and arrangements. We working on "De nouveau" takes. We'll also have to rerecord a bass on "Mes morts". Usual stuff then.        Seb

A day for piano on "Mes morts". It wasn't due to last six hours but what but it's a hard track, not really executed in the classical way. A latino like piano arrangement played by an irish influenced violonist demands time to adapt : too violent, too sweet, not present enough ; Christine, the sound engineer is also genius to find stimulating adjectives. On his side, Gauthier rerecords easily the bass on "Mes morts".       Gilles

It's been a hard day. We've spent too much time on a guitar for "Tchin-tchin" : the sound's really hard to find and Nico's tough on putting it all together. Finally, Gilles and Seb found time to sit on the piano for a joint piano session on "Arnaud et Cécile". But the afternoon seems endless. Gauthier and Seb discover the refinements of ice-driving on Eurosport, the sport chanel on the cable, while Christian's trying to record an overdrive guitar on "Independence Park" : heavy problems with vibration in the amp. We change for another one. New problem. We change cables and guitar but it still doesn't work. We postpone this but we need to be careful : the planning's not strechable and we'll soon have two bloked days for our invited musicians (strings and wind). The end of the day is rather upsetting : Nico is back on the piano for "Ton mauvais compagnon" and Christian and Seb insist on Nico playing the whole song and not just parts of it. Discussion and eventually he's okay to record this song. Then we head to the pizzeria with Fred, our boss from Le Village vert label who's come over to see us.

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