The North Wind is Calling...
As well as this, Jon has been selected to be the orchestrator for a new Norway-based progressive power metal album project, which will be finished this year. Orchestration work has started already, which has been made much easier and more effective by the addition of an incredible 27" iMac to Jon's home studio. This blows his 2008 MacBook totally out of the water, and high up into the stratosphere!
This new power-house of a machine, coupled with the complete EastWest sample library catalogue, and a Sonuus G2M guitar-midi interface is making Jon's orchestration process more organic, spontaneous, and ultimately more realistic. Expect amazing things on this front in the near future! At present, the project is very much 'under cover', but the specifics will be revealed once the project has 'cooked' for a little while longer.
Let's just say, that the project includes some prestigious names, with the mystery members all bringing a vast quantity of experience and expertise from innumerable past bands and projects, most of which are timeless classics, hailing from the death metal, progressive metal and power metal scenes, both sides of the North Atlantic ocean.
Be very excited: this is going to sound immense!
This new power-house of a machine, coupled with the complete EastWest sample library catalogue, and a Sonuus G2M guitar-midi interface is making Jon's orchestration process more organic, spontaneous, and ultimately more realistic. Expect amazing things on this front in the near future! At present, the project is very much 'under cover', but the specifics will be revealed once the project has 'cooked' for a little while longer.
Let's just say, that the project includes some prestigious names, with the mystery members all bringing a vast quantity of experience and expertise from innumerable past bands and projects, most of which are timeless classics, hailing from the death metal, progressive metal and power metal scenes, both sides of the North Atlantic ocean.
Be very excited: this is going to sound immense!
Metal forged in the East...
The Kuwaiti symphonic death metal band Divine Disorder's upcoming album, which Jon contributed to as both an orchestrator and guitar soloist has been featured on the website metality.net.
The album has been in the making for several years, and Jon joined in the creative process back in the winter of 2011. Once the songs were finished, with all the myriad of guest contributions added into the picture, the album was mixed at Fascination Street Studios, in Örebro (Sweden), by Jens Bogren.
Brett Caldas-Lima from Tower Studio in France has just mastered the album, and Jon got to hear the finished product in it's entirety for the first time whilst Jassem Darkvain (founder of Divine Disorder) came to visit him in the UK this week: the finished songs sound incredible! All the hard work and perseverance paid off in end! Expect an official release date later this year.
The album has been in the making for several years, and Jon joined in the creative process back in the winter of 2011. Once the songs were finished, with all the myriad of guest contributions added into the picture, the album was mixed at Fascination Street Studios, in Örebro (Sweden), by Jens Bogren.
Brett Caldas-Lima from Tower Studio in France has just mastered the album, and Jon got to hear the finished product in it's entirety for the first time whilst Jassem Darkvain (founder of Divine Disorder) came to visit him in the UK this week: the finished songs sound incredible! All the hard work and perseverance paid off in end! Expect an official release date later this year.
Check out the article by clicking on the picture of Brett, Jens and Jassem Darkvain (founder and bassist of Divine Disorder) below:
Alternatively, take a listen to the mixed but not mastered tracks that Jon has worked on as an orchestrator using the SoundCloud player below:
