this is the story ...

The current album is called the Children of Lir "this is a story" and is a double album with 16 pieces made.

If you want to buy music, you write to us at best an em ail with our contact form . Everything else you learn it by mail.

Want to know how we laughed over the last two years and suffered, while the songs were written by us and are grown, or how we have mastered the CD technology?

All that you can learn here in many pictures and anecdotes. Have fun browsing through the stories and images, wish you

Diana, Ingo, Sasha, Thorsten and Nils

The drive to the pressing plant

Free to Toast's memory

Nils and I had worked through the night. Mastering. Songs bounce. The line to Frankfurt weakened already. At some point, but we had everything ready. With tired eyes, we looked at the clock - 6:33. "I must really kip a minute," I said. We said goodbye. It has been tripped and fell into bed bright I quickly into sleep. About ten clock woke me up. Shortly thereafter, on Nils phone: "Hi, the songs are ready to burn to CD. Shall we go to press shop? "-" Yes, of course, by one at the train station? "-" Sure thing, man. " So go ahead, quickly fetched from the station for a coffee, phone rings - Nils: "Ingo comes with it." A short time later in the slow train to Ratingen. Once in the sun greets us Hoesel. Behind the tracks, an old farmhouse. Through the gate, turn left a store with a garden needs a carpentry shop right in the middle and the press shop. We open the door: "Hi, there you are at last!"

The smallest studio in the world

Thesis: The smallest studio in the world was Dellbrück in the Cologne district.

There were many years ago (so two's already there), the first recordings for the new COL Pladde done! From the square footage, there are certainly smaller studios as Sasha then 37m ² apartment ... If you subtract, but by the 37m ² x 2.30 m = 85.1 m living space, the approximately 83m ³ junk, then one can easily realize where the smallest studio in the world was . But it's not like that is not Nils would have junk in his room ...

It's Tuesday.

Boaah nee ... It rang again at the door. I have it through the baby monitor heard. Ingo also comes by to mix. Ok, he has brought electrolytes and whatever else you might need. But the sofa will be full. A two-seater, not in cross form, and without Spannmuffenverschraubung, but just not for four people. Well, that all are there. Diana is just before sleep, the wireless keyboard makes bitches, no wonder around in the trillions of wireless networks around us. Oh, and the baby monitor ... We mix today Paddys Green Shamrock Shore.

Five facts about the studio by Nils

• Nils' studio is a carpet that makes the studio only really comfortable

• There is always coffee, cakes, beer and electrolytes
• Nils on his bass can be fine in tüdeln breaks (Note from Nils: what really breaks)
• Nils has a mirror in the studio

• You should leave the studio on tiptoes, because the cable lying around the RME empfindlichst respond to shocks.

One more thing from the "Knowledge Base, the world does not need"

• Nils & his computer called tamara transgressed
• The reverse sound in Aragon Mill called natas.wav and accidentally takes 1666 seconds
• The final masters took on 22.04. von 20.00 bis 6.32 clock clock the next day
• On stage, you should always have a camera - for example, for band photos in the booklet
• The sound of an SM 58 is better than its reputation.

So, we still mix with the hand ...

Hi. So, since I just sometimes so damn cool find the way in which we have mixed and mastered the CD, I want the time here a brief description.

Everything is fine, but where's the CD for, anyway?

Drop us an e-mail via the contact form , or come to one of our concerts .

Great CD, great site, but ...

I ... do not understand a single word! Read it in English!

Credits (in alphabetical order):

Helge, Christine & Christian, dem Dude, Dir, Elina, unseren Familien & Freunden, Frankfurt, Gesa, Helga & Stefan & Leo, Isa, Johannes Elteste, Kai Vehmanen, Kaja, Matthes, Matthias van den Berg, Maria McAteer, unseren Nachbarn, Nasti, Nicola aus Lippoldsberg, Sabine, Petra, Sascha Katterbach, den Schlagsaiten, Steffi & Jan, Tamara, Tom Szilagyi, Steve Harris, Thomas & Maria, Ulli Analogue Birds, Barbara and Tom, Bernice Langmaak, Beate, Berg & Linda, Christine and Christian, the Dude, You, Elina, our families & friends, Frankfurt, Gesa, Stefan & Helga & Leo, Isa, John Elteste, Kai Vehmanen, Kaja, Matthes, Matthias van den Berg, Mary McAteer, our neighbors, Nasti, Nicola Lippoldsberg, Sabine, Petra, Sascha Katterbach, the impact strings, Steffi & Jan, Tamara, Tom Szilagyi, Steve Harris, Thomas & Mary, Ulli

References (others may follow):

Ecasound homepage: http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/
LADSPA plugin homepage and links to various libraries: http://www.ladspa.org/
Steve Harris' LADSPA Plugin Docs see, so for a very http://plugin.org.uk/ inconspicious but ver good reference list.
Wget: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget/
The Children Of Lir homepage: http://www.childrenoflir.de
The Children Of Lir on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/childrenoflir
The Children Of Lir on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/lirmusic

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Hidden info ...

And ... who has been beaten up by this point through the whole business may also experience as a reward now finally know what it actually has the ominous hidden tracks on the CD itself ... :

CD I:

- Galway Hornpipe '(trad arr: Nile, at the end of, Iceland Two Swans') *
The picture was taken sometime in 2009 at a rehearsal in (very rarely) fully staffed with Diana.
Nils and Saschi fiddle and Diana tortures the guitar. Manager Ingo.

- Starry Sky (Text / Music: Ingo; at the end of cores) *
ne kind of spontaneous song, has virtually self-invented and created on the beach of Primelin. The Atlantic Ocean in the background isn overdub and also plays himself, and indeed anywhere on the coast not far from St. Tugen.

- Danny Boy (trad. arr: COL, according to a time, Starry Sky ')
Anyone who thinks that we are not, but Shane McGowan and Nick Cave was absolutely right.

CD II:

- Musical Priest II '(trad arr: Nile, at the end of' When You're Old ')
see info in the booklet to Musical Priest '

- Tell Me Ma '(trad arr: COL) *
Sample at about Diana, 2009, Nile is everything and Ingo has forgotten the Harp ...

-, While Weila Weila '(trad arr: Saschi, sooooo at the end of the second CD)
emerged at dawn on 03/06/2005 at Saschis home studio after one of the worst gigs of the band's history in Tir Na Nog in the Old Town. But here we are with the Take nochma then came out pretty good number ...

*: Taken with a Samsung YP-U2

... So now you know that too!