Two times the trauma

A little sign ( Single )

Track by Track

A Little Sign :

Mattias Eriksson : Lead Vocals, Acoustic guitar, Magnus Organ.
Mattias Olsson : Whippany Rhythm Master, Glockenspiel, Tambourine, Electric guitar, Tremolo Danelectro Bass, Mellotron 400 ( 3 violins & flute )
Ulf Åkerstedt : Tuba

One of the first tracks we recorded as Two times the Trauma. I think it is the first track where I used the Whippany rhythm master drummachine and it actually remaining until the final mix.

Your Ghost ( alternative version ) :
Mattias Eriksson : Lead Vocals
Mattias Olsson : Optigan, Mellotron 400( Pipe organ, eight voice choir & Brass section ), Danelectron Baritone guitar, Omnichord ( Rhythm ) through the Mutron octave divider.

Originally I was hoping to create a kind of Optigan Cloud but I realized pretty soon that that wasn´t going to happen so I resorted to using just the Optigan guitar and then copying it to make it more unpredictable. There are three Mellotron sounds going on. Eight voice choir, Pipeorgan and the mixed strings ( Three violins and Cello ) these are submixed quite randomly and pulled through a ridiculous amount of reverb to create a ” real ” sounding orchestral back drop.

A Little Sign ( demo )
Mattias Eriksson : Double tracked Lead Vocals, Electric guitar
Mattias Olsson : Optigan ( Rhythm ), Bontempi Organ

The Optigan Rhythm is taken from the Disc Romantic strings in ¾. This was the first time Mattias played on an electric guitar.
All vocals on tracks 2 and 3 were recorded using a dictaphone mic that I usually use for talkback to give them a more close and scratchy sound. They are B-sides after all.