Of course, my saying “first, we had no sign of luck” means we had that luck later.

We were back in 2 hours.
Troy and Sven were at their previous positions.
“We have scribbled something over here” - said Troy and played a piece of a tune on his guitar, with Sven’s backing him on keyboard.
“So, how’s that? We are not sure, actually…” – said the new theme creators modestly.
“Wow!” – said Lena and me in one voice.
And it was the beginning…
Musicians started ad-libbing about the tune, Lena sang, and then everybody else began singing. That singing was ragged and funny – our only goal was to find the vocal melody itself. It was somewhere very close.
An hour of total fun later we had a verse, a pre-chorus and a chorus. Next day we thought up the concept of the meaning, the lyrics and the bridge. Time has come to get demo-vocals recorded. It was something special, like nothing on earth and at the same time like would-be hit a-la mainstream, with stylish beat and classical Los Angeles flavor of bridge vocals. For the following three or four days (I don’t recall exactly) we polished our track, finding new features. For example, there is a moment when we can hear a… brass wind instrument.

Neither Lena, nor musicians, nor me had or have an objective of doing mainstream music on the principle of “all for sale” (please, don’t mock me with Insider’s phrase “all sails up for soul, no soul down for sale”; Lena’s music is being made for you, fans, as well as for wide audience, but it doesn’t mean it is pocket-bound, not soul-bound). This new song – let’s conveniently call it “I.S.” – may be formally assorted as pop-mainstream, with great reserve, but at the same time that is not exactly it. Only later on, when we finished working on the next thing, it became clear what “the Lena’s style” is and why “I.S.” is truly Lena’s song.

While we were having fun with “I.S.” (well, actually we worked, but according to feelings of everyone involved it was real fun) Domen and Steve composed another song – “So not cool”. If one does try to describe its style this would be close to rock-ballad with monumental sound and mystic contents. Bridge in this song is sung by Steve himself.

Concerning “N.N.”, that I mentioned after telling all about the nature and the weather, Lena recorded chorus and the bridge to this rock song with a hit potential. Verses lack lyrics by now, and the melody requires more work.

Our studio session lasted 11 days without any weekend breaks, fuelled by the complete universal inspiration. Don’t know about your mind, but to my humble one it is a rather good speed – to make two and a half songs in the given time, two of which were done totally from scratch. That means Lena has got a big chance of making you happy with her album ready by the end of the year. Especially pleasing is the fact that all denoted vocals are already recorded in clean copy.

I wish to stress the fact about Lena’s vocals: guys, you haven’t heard Lena like this ever, believe me.
(it is not about new Lena being better or worse than previous Lena, it is about absolutely new Lena, you’ll see…)

I have a fierce desire to give these songs for you to listen right now, but I’m sure you understand it’s not possible.
It’s a pity the loyal fans community does not reside at some remote resort on Mars or similar, without a comm link to Earth’s internet…

This is, actually, it.
On the May 4 we left LA to go back to Northern California.
Lena visited doctor for her eyes check-up – everything was fine. She had a rest for the next three days, had a bit of sunbathing, and on the 8-th she and Olga flew to Moscow to participate in Eurovision. If it wasn’t about Eurovision, we would continue our work… Now Lena comes back to California on June 27, and she’s going to stay there for much longer. We do hope to make everything. At least as a demo version.

Boris