The wait is over!

THIS IS COW-FI hit the stores in the last weeks and is now available throughout Europe and online

17 tracks of uncooked Cow-Fi mayhem.

US release date is october 8th.

there's a slight delay with the release schedule. the album will be out on the 3rd of september.

record release party date coming up soon.

The Lonesomes are about to enter the studio for the final stage of mixing. Their next eagerly anticipated release is schedueled for late July 2007, and will be out on LoAF Recordings. The current volume of new material could easily fit a double album, nevertheless after the mixing process the Lonesomes - together with their rehired producer Adi Gelbart - will choose which songs would make the final cut, which would be either an EP or a full length album. Stay tuned for further details!

Here are some rare pictures from the mixing sessions:

near field monitoring

Some backstage shots from the Hamburg show. Singer Cindy Snow was spotted getting cozy with tourmate Israeli singer Yonatan Gat.

The tour begun with a trip to Hamburg, where the Lonesomes played a small venue in the St. Pauli district called Hasenschaukel.

Waiting for the tourbus which failed to arrive.

Cindy ended up buying bus tickets.

Arriving at Hamburg in the evening.

Cindy at the Reeperbahn street.

Pierre sitting at the Hasenschaukel before the show reading Douglas Coupland's Girlfriend in a Coma.

With rumours of the band's show spreading in the city, the Hamburg police was forced to show up in big numbers to control the big crowds who did not have place inside the sold out venue.

They also prohibited us from taking any pictures during the show. After the show the band went drinking with manager Adi Gelbart and singer Yonatan Gat who will be touring with them for the entire tour. Backstage pictures to follow soon!

Tomorrow Magdeburg...

The Lonesomes have used their tour budget to replace the old broken camera with a new 5M pixel working one, and so the blog is now back on, and will continue here on the Lonesomes Myspace page.

Here are some pictures from the final preperation rehersal before setting off to Hamburg.

Anne Moo, an Arp 2600 and a Jen SX1000

Jeff listening to the others, checking that everything is in place.

Cindy - pretty as always, and lovely as a rose.

Pierre lost in the moment

Being always on the look for new sonic possibilities, the Lonesomes decided to try and incorporate field recordings into their new material. So Cindy and Anne packed the band's Grundig TK745 reel-to-reel tape recorder and took a train to the suburban town of Hönow.

At Alexanderplatz U-Bahn station

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On the train. Cindy looks very concentrated. She's making sure they don't miss their station.

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Here they are recording the sound of a riding train. How Jean Michel Jarre!

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Turns out a local highschool indy band was having a rehearsal inside. Sort of a christian Joy-Division with violin. The suburbs.

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Anne got to play the church organ.

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They were hoping to record cows (which is why they went to the countryside in the first place). But as it turns out, there are no cows in Hönow, so they ended up recording the sounds of the wilderness...

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