This year I felt experiencing 3 summers. The first one was in the end of may/beginning of June when we played in France/Spain/Portugal. The second one in Menorca (July) where we started to compose new songs and the third in Majorca (August) where we started to record some material. Now the summer is finished ( the album isn't!!) seems like we'll finalize  it this autumn in Brussels  - That's what lonelyDRIFTERkaren stands for after all.

One day our friend Victor Moragues visited us in the countryhouse in Majorca. What you can see here is his sensitive view of our recording environment. Plus us very natural :) Here we go:

We have been touring with Grass Is Singing since April 2008 (... well with a few stops in between, but I dare to say that we've been spending more days abroad than in Barcelona) So what next? We immigrated to Majorca over the summer, to do NOT what you probably think we would do ... but to work on our new album here, o.k. we DO go to the beach once in a while but most of the time we try out new songs, arrange them a bit, write lyrics  ... it's exciting and satisfactory, sometimes it can be frustrating too, but lots of times those song ideas which cause some headache and need more dedication, sometimes turn out to be the best songs in the end. While on tour we are collecting ideas but hardly have enough time to try them out ...these days we finally get the chance to do it!
This autumn we'll do our last Grass Is Singing Tour: so far we've got Spain, France, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg and Holland on the agenda before we'll go into a studio to do the final recordings there. But for now, we'll try to make out the most of this summer - hope you'll do the same! Saludos Tanja

Here is our own remake of the Owl Moans Low including some french lines too so it became La Chouette in the end (which actually means "owl" in French). There's been some people who felt inspired by the Owl Moans and made their own version of it or used it in one way or another which was very nice. There's a version by a Greek singer called Giorgi Jristodulu
which you can watch here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ubTLP2szn0
somebody making Spanish "Bolitas" and using our soundtrack!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pax7w1UqdUk
as well we received a very nice version by a fan which I'm not sure if we are allowed to publish here and I know that a piano teacher is teaching the song to his students
For this song we really needed some help by some French speakers and there's been people putting great effort and sweet ideas into this song, here are some lyrics by our musician friend Bejamin aka Lozninger http://www.myspace.com/lozningermusic and it goes like this:
-et la nuit est mon amie, la chouette me l'a dit
(and the night is my friend, the owl told me so)
- je ne trouve plus mon ami, la chouette est repartie
(i can't find my friend anymore, the owl is gone again)
- quand la chouette vole la nuit, la lune est son amie
(when the owl flies at night, the moon is it's friend )
- quand je sens les premières pluies, la chouette est à l'abri
(when i'm sensing the first rain, the owl is safe)

but in the end I decided to go for something easier (already hard enough for me!) by Jean Jacques & Gaelle

Je ne trouve pas mon amie
(I can't find my friend)

La chouette se joue d'la nuit
(the owl does what it wants with the night)
Je ne trouve pas mon amie

La chouette s'est évanouie
(the owl has vanished)

Merci a tout!