Tomorrow it begins!

After several months of planning and panicking and just madly laughing at the whole idea, the first Spinefarm Summer Camp is finally happening.

What started as a cool idea of just having a small get together party somewhere in Finland for Spinefarmers, quickly became a much more serious matter when we decided that the camp should actually be about making music and just having different types of artists work together.
Hence it went from a small party to a 10 day gathering, and from 6 people to more than 20.

And what are we trying to create?
A Spinefarm All-Stars album, and a separate Christmas Album.
New tracks, freshly created by the minds of talented Spinefarm recording artists by giving them a chance to work with people they've possibly never worked before.

No-one knows what will come out of this yet, but hey, no one needs to be a fortune teller to be able to predict that this'll at least be fun!

We've now got our recording gear ready plus shopping lists done and there's a huge cabin waiting for us in the middle of the woods and lakes of Southern Finland - it's finally time to go!

After pinning down people's schedules for weeks our first batch of participants includes:

Mikko Kotamäki - Swallow the Sun
Markus Toivonen - Ensiferum
Sami Hinkka - Ensiferum
Jukka-Pekka Miettinen - ex-Ensiferum, Arthemesia
Niklas Kvarforth - Shining
Christian Larsson - Shining
Keijo Niinimaa - Medeia
Laura D - Medeia
Mikko Salovaara - Kiuas
Asim Searah - Kiuas
Rainer Tuomikanto - Kiuas

More people will arrive as the camp progresses!

We're also bringing along Metalheim's Jukka Varmo as a recording engineer, our trusty driver Toni Salminen and a few Spinefarmers - yours truly included - to make everything run smoothly.

So stay tuned for news and more bloggings!
We'll add pictures and new entries to this blog daily, along with comments from our artists, and we'll also be streaming live at UStream at scheduled intervals.

These schedules will be posted onto our Facebook page as soon as we've decided what our daily recording times will be.

Signing out and heading to pack a few more things,
yours truly,
N.H. Leviathan