Faridee (lyrics and design). When she started writting, I immediatly loved those first lines from "1 Intuition Flows". I told her back then (2004) that I would steal it to make a song, so I did it. The first version was recorded just with delayed guitars and a couple of voices, quite different than the final version we have here. Years passed and I started to work with more of her lyrics, so there are sleepy songs that are about wake up.

She is always working really hard to make publicity and artwork look perfect. Mariux (a good friend of us from Agentina and a great designer) has been always helping us with everything and supporting the project.

What I love about Faridee's writting is that she can use methaphores or very direct phrases that show very specific scenes and feeling, so you can expect beautiful lyrics for future songs, we have enough material now to add music.

Marcela (vocals, instrumentation, arrangements, and all recordings). Since we started to work on the first song this year, "Ambar", she thought of magical ideas to change it completely. The first version I did (2004) was also a guitar demo, and it became a progressive song when I recorded it with Ashlar in 2006, but for this final version, we could capture a very different sense for the whole structure. We wanted a very fragile atmosphere, but at the same time, it should have strong paths. We started recording the piano, then the voices, guitars, and finally we add a small drums line almost at the end of the song.

For Intuition Flows I had thought of dark melodies and an ebow line, instead of just a rhythm guitar, but we decided again to change everything, and I really liked the vision Marcela had since the beginning, more trippy. This was a very difficult song for us to arrange, specially on the drums line. We spent hours and hours trying to find the right sounds and accents for it, we actually "wrote" it note by note, and as soon as we finished that weekend, the first thing we did was calling Faridee and send her the song so she could give us her point of view, and she liked it very much :)


After we finished recording that session, we talked of preparing a small gig in Mexico City to introduce the project, also playing covers from our musical influences, specially Kari Rueslatten. To prepare the gig, we had to stop working on new songs, and after the gig, the girls and me were very busy with the tribute party for The Gathering, so we will continue recording until next year.

Marcela and me left some bases for new songs, they are called "Septiembre" (written and composed in 2005) and "Somber Days" (written by Faridee this year). We are working with more Faridee's lyrics ("Fragile" and "Dreamcatcher") and also with songs I wrote some years ago when I was on my very first musical project.


During the next months I will be working on these song bases while Marcela is finishing Stream of Passion's second album in Holland, so I think that in March, we will be recording these songs at Monterrey, and also editing the audio and videos from Other Women's Stories' gig, so we can put them here for downloading.



Thank you again to all our friends and the people supporting us, no matter the distance.

A big hug to all of you!! All the best for next year :D
-Karen