Shangri-la studio is on sale

[Jules]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/overseasproperty/8597172/Shangri-La-Ranch-The-house-that-inspired-Bob-Dylan.html

[Love Expresso]

vintage hd flat on the wall.

LE

[Jules]

Now we know the reason why MK is not going to mix the new record until early 2012? LOL

I'm quite sure that part of the inspiration when he built British Grove was this Shangri-la studio.

[Love Expresso]

Not sure about it. Guy once wrote that MK was really planning his new studio for ages and had it in his mind for at least 10, 15 years...

LE

[Justme]

Not sure about it. Guy once wrote that MK was really planning his new studio for ages and had it in his mind for at least 10, 15 years...

LE

Oh dear, he's really that slow, reminds me of myself.

[dmg]

Not sure about it. Guy once wrote that MK was really planning his new studio for ages and had it in his mind for at least 10, 15 years...

LE

Plans his studios pretty much like he cuts albums then!

[Love Expresso]

I find it somehow very promising that he breaks the routine this time and takes his time for this album. Here's some hope that some great stuff will emerge.

The last three albums, you could really take a look at your calendar/diary and say, January, Guy starts a new diary, now it's Feb/March, they do sessions, now it's May, mixing time, at August 1st we got knowledge of the album title, two weeks later of the track titles and mid august we had the first snippets for a release in September/October... That was the same with Shangri-La, Kill To Get Crimson and Get Lucky - more or less.

There is much more vibe and thrill about the new album this time. I hope it will be worth the wait!

LE

[Banjo99uk]

Im sure Guy said he had been with MK in the studios for months preparing the new songs.  I thought with the last 3 albums that process was a couple of weeks.  So either that has something to do with the mystery or these songs maybe more elaborate.  Which is something he has cringed about in recent years when discussing songs like telegraph road.

[Love Expresso]

Yeah, that's right. As good as the recent bands  however are in producing "one takes", this method seems to get in the way of somewhat more elaborate songs. The song structures have become simpler and simpler - from my amateurish point of view. It would be great if at least some of the new songs would be a little bit more "complicated" in the good sense of the word.

LE

[dmg]

I find it somehow very promising that he breaks the routine this time and takes his time for this album. Here's some hope that some great stuff will emerge.

The last three albums, you could really take a look at your calendar/diary and say, January, Guy starts a new diary, now it's Feb/March, they do sessions, now it's May, mixing time, at August 1st we got knowledge of the album title, two weeks later of the track titles and mid august we had the first snippets for a release in September/October... That was the same with Shangri-La, Kill To Get Crimson and Get Lucky - more or less.

There is much more vibe and thrill about the new album this time. I hope it will be worth the wait!

LE

Of course, once again you're right LE.  While I mock I don't stop to think that it always does good in all walks of life to break the monotiny and while we waited longer for albums like STP it proved to be a very fine one indeed (IMO anyway).  Then again, to contradict this we only waited one year for great albums like Communique and MM so...

[Jules]

I remember that Mk said he visited Shangri-la studios before he recorded RPD in Nashville. He considered that SL was a very nice studio but that he needed something else for RPD.

By that time was when he started to design exactly what he wanted for British Grove (I read that around 2001-2002, and British Grove started to be operative about 2004 more or less), and he wanted a mix between everything modern from the Nashville studios and all the vintage stuff from Shangri-la studios, creating a studio that blended all the modern and vintage techniques of recording.

Of course the studio idea was in MK's head long before, I