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session#2 is coming to an end. 300 harmony vocals, 25 minutes of percussion, 3 or 4 synth Jams, 20 something guitars, 1 Jim Gilette scream etc…and our long overdue sofa arrived today (it’s brown, I thought it was green, f***k it), the dish washer has been fixed…I guess, we’ll have to come back next week. Ps: songs sound great!
Hé,
It’s that time again, WINTER, when we always record our albums. It makes we want to change that routine, so let me write it loud: T80’s 6th album, we’ll be recorded either in summer or at the very least in springtime. That said, we still have to work on album #5 first, which is what we’ve started today.
Good News! It’s happening now in Rouen, at our HQ, our dear T’Lab.
Engineer/producer Tony Lash is on board with us, we missed working with American dudes! Tony is a good friend and was responsible for the sonic architecture of Wallpaper For The Soul.
More on this later obviously.
Bises
X 
(Click on the picture to listen to our 2010 Greetings)
….and by the way, all the best for this brand new decade.
here’s a musical link for you (it’s kinda hard to figure out the lyrics, but it says something like “Tahiti 80 wish you a happy new year, Two Thousand and Ten”
I really dig Bruce Springsteen’s “Ten” at the end!
X
Salut,
2009 is nearly over, let me tell you how it was for us. It went sooooo fast, it’s almost unbelievable.
It started with snowfalls in Germany and ended on an perfect Indian summer morning in NYC.
In between, we travelled all around the globe (Europe, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, South & North America). It definitely felt like a proper world tour, with lots of work and lots of fun.
Highlights:
visiting new countries. Argentina, Chile, Uruguay & Brazil was fantastic.
(Mehdi Z told me yesterday that his credit card has been hi-jacked in Brazil and that somebody is spending 300€ every hour on his account since Dec 21st. Maybe for him, Sao Paulo won’t be such a great memory!)
Best show:
Hard to say which one was the best. But I guess the big Parisian gig at L’Alhambra was definitely amazing. Great venue, great crowd, long set. It felt like the climax of the tour (not that the rest of it felt like going downward), but it discharged us of a lot of pressure.
Spinal tap moment:
-Entering the wrong “Schöndorf” in the GPS on the first day of the German tour. as we got closer, it looked like a small village surrounded by woods. I had to use my best German to get an explanation from a local lady. Anyway, after another 2 hour drive, we made it, and performed in front of 20 people.
-Does the cancellation of the Summer Sonic show in Tokyo due to bad weather enter this category? I’d say yes.
-and How about the earthquake in Taipei?
Catch phrases
-“thanks for playing the game”,” we give a dream, we sell merch”, “I’ve heard some beautiful things”…it could go on and on
Word of the year
- “Tranquignon” = (a contraction of cute & easy, approximately)
an example here:
there was some body language as well: “Gratoucheck”. Too hard to explain here, you’ll have to ask one of us to show it to you.
And the biggest news is that we’re an indie band again, that we’ve started a label “Human Sounds” and that we ‘ll spend the early months of 2010 recording new songs…Obviously more on this later, next year!
Love & thanks to all
X
