Elegy’s Principles of Pain 2002 album is now released on a limited edition vinyl via NIGHT of the VINYL DEAD recs SRHC.
I am especially proud not only because of the amazing performances from Patrick Rondat, Martin Helmantel, Dirk Bruinenberg & yours truely, but also grateful to my band members at the time for giving me the opportunity to produce this album.
The instruments were all recorded at Sonora studio in Spain, which was originally built to the same specifications as Abbey Road studio London including their infamous Rupert NEVE mixing console used by The Beatles, Pink Floyd & many more.
Here’s an anecdote for you! “I flew out to Madrid ahead of time to prepare all the Lead & BV vocal tracks, which I had recorded in my old home studio attic. Sonora was having a brand new SSL 4000 fully automated mixing console installed (another reason I wanted to produce & mix there). Fortunately for me (& Elegy), the Sonora in-house sound engineer at the time (who was amazing), showed me the original Neve console, which was ready to be shipped off to Lenny Kravitz who they said was the buyer? So I had this crazy idea to carefully remove and borrow one of the analogue channel strips, then record the bass and guitars direct via the Neve channel strip into the SSL to get the ultimate Analogue combination. So Elegy’s Principles of Pain album has a vintage touch and a bit of the Abbey Road Neve analogue magic courtesy of Lenny K….thanks mate hugs Ian!
PS, I recently did a fact check & googled if Lenny Kravitz ever bought a Neve mixing console. Apparently he did, but from a studio in Italy just so you know. But we did get to use the Neve parts who ever the new owner was.. A nice memory I wanted to share from 2001!
ELEGY – PRINCIPLES OF PAIN LIMITED EDITION VINYL 2025
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