Making a New Album in My Small Home Studio in Nashville

Nasvhille, July 24, 2026

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This is my first blog entry. My first newsletter has gone out, and I am finally beginning to share a little more about my upcoming album.

People usually only see the finished record, and they just look at it and think, “Argh, another album,” and skip it. They don’t see the months, or rather years, spent sitting totally focused in a room, moving a microphone by five centimeters, changing one word in a lyric, or listening to the same guitar take thirty times because one tiny note bothers you.

At this point, most of the instrumental recording and editing for my new album is already finished. The piano parts and some of the bass were played by me through MIDI, which allowed me to search for beautiful piano and bass libraries and experiment with different sounds. I edited all the guitar tracks, prepared the basic sessions, built the arrangements, added a few other sounds, and started premixing everything so the songs would be ready for the next part: recording all the lead vocals, backing vocals, and sometimes putting together choir parts with soprano, mezzo, alto, and even tenor voices.

Singing is the part I feel most physically. A guitar can be hung on the wall when I am finished. I can sit in a strange position while recording it, and my fingers carry most of the weight. I might look a bit like Quasimodo when recording guitar. That’s why I never take pictures of it.

Singing is different. I can feel it throughout my entire body, so I prepare for it weeks in advance. I practice the songs repeatedly and check every word, pronunciation, and the meaning of each line I chose. Even after the recording is done, my voice needs much more rest than my fingers do after playing instruments. Vocal cords are more vulnerable than strings. When a guitar string breaks, you replace it. Your voice is not quite that simple.

Everything in my life circles around this record right now. It has been that way for two years, actually. I was already working on parts of it while releasing my sixth album, “Perspective” (2024), and I continued working on it while recording and releasing my seventh album, “Red Wine Philosophy” (2025). I believe most artists are constantly moving between several records, ideas, and projects at once.

My studio in Nashville is just one room, and everything I do happens inside that one room. Every time I switch instruments, I rebuild the setup, changing microphones, their positions, and the acoustic treatment depending on what I am recording. Once everything is set up, I can barely move through my little, bright-colored studio because I am surrounded by acoustic panels that lean against whatever I can find: a tripod, another microphone stand, the piano. It’s chaos, but the sound is more important than physical neatness in that moment of truth: when you catch your own sound through a microphone, with all its little flaws and peculiarities.

For months now, I have been living in a headspace filled with countless tiny decisions about this album. What should the font look like? Found one! Where will I take the cover photograph? Probably in our kitchen again, just as we did for “Red Wine Philosophy” and “Perspective.” What clothes do I want to wear, and where am I supposed to find them? Normal stores don’t have them. What kind of lighting do I need? We already have several lights in the garage, so on photo shoot day, I will most likely set everything up, from the backdrop to the camera, lights, makeup, and clothing.

Then there is the exact shade of the album, the title, which I chose last year and can barely keep to myself any longer, the number of songs, and the track order. Of course, the order has meaning. It always does.

I am also thinking about what the lyric videos should look like and already searching through stock footage that I might combine with the lyrics in Final Cut or another editing program. At the same time, I am building my new website and making endless micro-decisions about the design and structure of every page.

I am exhausted, but I am having the time of my life. Making an album means disappearing for months and giving you breadcrumbs on social media. LOL

Soon, I will be able to invite you into this little room in Nashville a bit more, where all of this is happening, and into an entirely new musical universe. You will see how an album comes together through thousands of small decisions made by one person.

I have also planned something completely new for this record. Some cool merch. It might become my favorite part of the entire project, but I won’t be able to share it for another few months.

I might write about our record label and about Luca, too, here and there. :)

Can’t wait!