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RELEASE CD MAXI SINGLE

Den 12 januari 2006 släpps CD maxisingeln "Another Rainy Day" med

Vivien Searcy featuring Mathias Holmgren. Maxisingeln innehåller

3 versioner av låten inkl en clubremix.

Officiell Singel Release Party

den 12 januari på Dancing Dingo, Stockholm

INFO

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Country Gazetten nummer 5 är nu ute!
Du kan bland annat läsa om

  • Mike Bella
  • Billy Yates
  • The STU
  • Caroline Åkerlind
  • Lee Marvelous
  • Country cooking
  • Bluegrass i Sverige
  • Kalendariet

Mer info på http://www.scmc.se/

20051006

Vivien Searcy & the Ozarks performed at Alcazar Nalen with special guests like Mathias Holmgren (Vocals), Annika Blomfeldt (Cello) and Kjell Johansson (Banjo) They all took the music to a higher ground. An intense, energetic show and the crowd just loved it!

<<< Click this picture to see them all.

20050926

Acoustic rehearsel for the gig at october 5th. Vivien, Andreas, Charlie, Annika and Kjell.  And ofcourse lill Frasier was present too.

20050922

Ragdoll is music, but we´re also kinda dog oriented.

"There is a new kid in town"  Sita.. Cool young chick from the country....

So now we got four dogs connected to the business.. Lucas, Sita, Frasier and Bella..

20050820

We got some bigger studio monitors and moved a step upwards from Genelec 1030 to 1031.

20050817

Time to service the Amek mixing console.

We cleaned all the faders and knobs....

more than a 1000 pieces. Ted helped me out with the technical stuff. He knows best how to handle the inside of the console without getting fried.

http://www.electroaudio.se/

20050805

Installed Motu Digital Performer 4.6. and the Motu 24 I/O, 2408 MK3 and 2408 MK2 on the new Mac G5.

We´re back on track !

20050729

We accelerated from a Mac G4 DP 1 GHz to a brand new Mac G5 DP 2.5 GHz. 

The sky is the limit.....

20050721

Patricias cousin Patrick Verhoeven from the Netherlands showed up in the studio. Here cousins Patrick & Patricia posing.

Patrick is the guitarplayer of the rewarded dutch band "Jinn".

More info at http://www.jinnmusic.nl

20050620

Nicke Widén relaxing in the control room after playing the pedal steel tracks for the Vivien Searcy Album.

20050616

We recorded Bella for "Dog Song".

20050609

Andreas & Frasier (lill dog) recording dobro on the Vivien Searcy album

20050606

Thomas Haglund came by and we recorded him for the Vivien Searcy album.

Picture taken from

http://www.grennamusik.com/

20050512

We recorded Annika Blomfeldt and her acoustic cello for the Vivien Searcy album.

Picture taken from http://www.annikablomfeldt.se/

20050427

Kjell Johansson picked his banjo like nobody else. Wow! We made a back up copy right away..

20050413

Mathias Holmgren & Vivien came to the studio for the vocal recordings of "Rainy Day"

200501

During the next few moths Patricia & Vivien do the plannings and record more vocal tracks for the album.

200501

Premiere soundcheck of the AMEK Big 44 mixing console in the new Ragdoll Studio..

It sounds ...... wonderful!!

We decided to rerecord some of the vocal tracks, as the AMEK mixing console is sounding so great!!

200501

...more gear to connect....

The planning and installation of the outboards took a while.. But now everything is hooked up nice and tidy.

200501

Patricia solded "some" cables...

All the ins and outs, each and everyone of them. Mixing console, processors, FX´s, headphones, talkback, monitors, computers, recorders, synths and keyboards to the bantam patchbays with 576 connections..

NOTE! That only ONE side of the cable..

200412

We started building the Ragdoll Studio.

Wivvi was in charge.. She did a great job!

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Mathias Holmgren & Vivien performing at Dancing Dingo.

20040826

Rehearsel pic Globen Country Show. Charlie Centervall, Annika Ljungberg, Jan Johanssen and Vivien Searcy.

200408

Considering buying the AMEK big 44 mixing console.

20040721

Washed the dog..

"His name is Lucas, he lives on the 2:th floor"

Some previous studio recordings for the Vivien Searcy Album.

20040630

Recording Mathias Holmgren.

200405

Recording the string session.

Cosmo string quartett.

200402

Patricia & Vivien recording at GTP studio

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Recording Andys twanging guitars

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Patricia & Martin Tallström at SAE Studio

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Vivien, Andreas & Patricia at SAE Studio

200304

Recording the drums and bass at SAE Studio 2.

Jonas Gunnarsson (bass), Patricia Viguurs (engineer, producer) & Johan Öhrn (drums)

20030218

We started with the recording for the Vivien Searcy album at Steam Engine Studio in Norrköping.

We recorded bass, drums and the main guitartracks on 4 songs during this first 2 day-studio-session.