These changes granted extreme flexibility and sensible overall improvement.
With this new lineup Canaan started the recordings of a new album in
august 2002 again at Sound Factory studio (and again with Max Moioli
as engineer), and completed them in mid September. The following weeks
were dedicated to post-production and graphic design; the final result
was the album "A calling to weakness", that rapidly turned into the
band's best seller (more than 6.000 copies so far) and according to
many listeners their best album to date too.
2003 was a quiet year for the band, though during the last part of the
year, Mauro and Nico set up a small recording-studio, with the perspective
of a new album, whose recordings begun in early 2004. The recording
process this time was pretty unusual. Rather than rehearsing the tracks
then going into the studio to record them in a rush, the band took a
different way, never rehearsing with the complete line-up. Basic songs
structures were improvised with reduced line-ups (usually drums, 1 guitar
and bass or keyboards) during a few sessions in February/March 2004.
these improvisations were recorded, then completely de-constructed and
re-assembled in various periods, with each member acting separately
on them, adding and changing things over time. This process took a long
time (actually several months), and led to a monster-amount of "puzzle-like"
sound fragments. In April and May 2005 Mauro and Nico took all of these
fragments, put them together and shaped them into the form of "songs".
Vocals were then recorded (including the two vocal lines sung by COLLOQUIO's
vocalist Gianni, taken at the band's own recording studio in June 2005),
and final arrangements were done.The songs were then masterfully mixed
by Alessio Camagni at Noise Factory Studio (a top-notch recording studio
with extremely powerful outboard modules and a warm and rich analog
mixer) during 8 days in July 2005. Once again, mastering and graphic
design completed the process, and led to "The unsaid words", undoubtedly
the band's strongest release, in terms of production and inspiration.
The band’s sonic trademark of despair and desolation is deeper and more
powerful than ever before...... If “A calling to weakness” was a chant
of pain and solitude, “The unsaid words” is a soundtrack of knowledge.
Of the knowledge of an unavoidable physical and psychological withering.
These 71 minutes will bring you back again to CANAAN’s universe and
its 3 only coordinates: NOTHING. NEVER. NOWHERE.