In the meantime Ola is working with the leadvocals in Stockholm you can send us questions thru this address: 

questions@thearkworld.com

Feel free to ask whatever you want about The Ark. The questionforum will be open until friday and you can send us questions in swedish or english. 

We will pick some of them to answer here in the

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Today we gathered three out of six Ark-members in Fabbes studio located in Hammarbyhamnen, Stockholm.

We continued working on the ever so classic backing vocals. Martin Axen made the studio shine and shiver with his deep andsoulful baryton-voice.

The team from “De kallar oss artister” paid another visit in the studio to do some additional footage. One

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These are pictures from friday. Ola is doing some “slask-vocals” which is similar to the “slask-guitar”.

It´s main purpose is to be a guidance for me to listen to while I nail the backing vocals. And as in most slask-cases, if it´s really good we keep at least parts of it.

Backing-vocals is probably my favourite thing

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Today we had Sylvester back in the studio to play some nice tom fills. You can imagine how good the rest of this song must be.

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This was supposed to be a singing day, but instead Jepson and Martins guitars sang.

Martin is so focused and concentrated he can`t even hear his own thoughts, only the glittering sound of an aucostic guitar.

A Dubble neck guitar is not enough for Jepson when he wanna nail all the harmonies at the same time.

I got a call from my friend Pablo at the pizzeria in Kosta today and he told me I´ve announced the wrong date for the exclusive Guild-gig this weekend. So I would like to correct this once and for all:

The gig is on saturday the 21st. The tickets are 150 sek and includes a deliscious

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Hej igen. Jag har precis läst Jan Stenmarks senaste bok Du & jag. Det sägs att ett gott skratt förlänger livet och jag skulle nog säga att jag kan addera ett par extra veckor bara genom att läsa den här boken. Den finns dessutom på pocket så det behöver inte svida i plånkan.

Här kommer ett

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Today there hasn`t been any activities in the studio, but some of the boys have been prepareing themselves all day, for tomorrow it`s a big backing vocals day.

So lets give them some inspiration…

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Jens:

-I was very excited about keybord day. In my head there were thousand ideas and so many different sounds to be created. Maybe I could use all the cool electronic stuff in the studio and make something like this.

-Then I suddenly remembered that we are making a rock album, not a synthetic trip so I

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…The word “Kalmar” probably is an old swedish word meaning “stone ground”. It is said that the city of Kalmar was given this name since sailors considered it a difficult passage.

However, in the 19:th century, it was suggested that “kalmar” should be used in the swedish language meaning “octopus” due to it’s similarity to the

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