Recording "Lament of the Highborne", from World of Warcraft

Those of you who know our family, know that we're kind of nerdy. A lot of time we spend our nights together playing World of Warcraft (WoW), an online computer role-playing game. We love the haunting "Lament of the Highborne" song from WoW and thought it would be amazing to record it.

We bought the sheet music, arranged the parts, and recorded it with the help of our friend, the talented Sylvia Muhlstein, on St. Patrick's Day. John Sergeant did an incredible job accompanying us.

John Sergeant, Tanya Gale, Tiffany Gale, Natalie Gale, Michelle Bate, Tamara Gale McKay, Christina Gale Borrowman, and Sylvia Muhlestein:

 Natalie did a wonderful job with the main part (Sylvanas); the rest of us had fun as the chorus (banshees):

Looking forward to the final recording!

"One World" CD Cover is Done

Tomorrow we leave for Los Angeles! We're taking our "One World" recording to give to the judges and finished the CD cover just in time:

Behind the Scenes of "One World"

We thought you might like to see a few "behind the scenes" pics from "One World".

Getting ready to walk down the road:

Standing on the frozen Utah Lake:

Beautiful shot of Tiffany playing her cello:

Cheese!

We got pretty cold between takes!

Music Video Recording of "One World"

A cold, wet, wonderful day.

We recorded our very first music video!!! The song is, "One World". We made our own costumes and think they reflect the light, ethereal, celtic image we were going for.

We enjoyed working with our awesome videographer, Michael Burton. He was very patient with us and worked hard to get some great shots, even after falling through the frozen lake!

Our favorite part of the experience was being together as sisters and doing something we love.

Recording the Music Track for "One World"

Tiffany bought the sheet music for "One World", arranged our parts, and emailed each of us with our part this past Sunday. She's going to school at BYU-Idaho, so she made the 4-hour drive to Utah yesterday so we could rehearse together for the first time.

Today we recorded the music track! Our awesome friend John Sergeant accompanied us.

For those of you doing the math, yep, we had 4 days to learn the song, 1 day of practicing together, and then we recorded it! Haha! Tiffany arranged it, sang it with us, and also played her cello for the recording. THAT is talent, folks.

We leave to pick up the finished recording in a few hours; can't wait to hear how it sounds!

Tamara, Tanya, Natalie, Tiffany (and her cello), and Christina:

John Sergeant doing his magic:

Preparing to Record "One World" - Costume-Making

We listened to many different Celtic songs and went with Celtic Woman’s “One World” because it’s a very powerful song about people working together to create a better world for everyone.

We wanted ethereal costumes to reflect the mood of our song and found a pattern for Celtic/Medieval dresses that was simple, modest, and beautiful. The most difficult part of that process was finding different colors that we all liked and that looked nice altogether!

We bought the material and spent the weekend cutting out our patterns and watching movies together. Mom and Christina sewed our dresses this weekend because Mom has knee surgery scheduled for Tuesday.

Costume Ideas (we chose a pattern similar to the top left dress):

Creating GaleSong

Earlier this month, Mom was reading the news and came across an NBC page that talked about the “America’s Got Talent” auditions. She thought about us and wondered if we might be interested in trying out for something like this. We all agreed that it would be a wonderful opportunity for us to improve our singing and have fun spending time together as sisters.

We had our first official meeting today to decide: our goals, our dreams, which roles each of us would play in our group, the name of our group, which song we should record first, and what to do about costuming.

Originally, we wanted our group name to be “NightinGales” because it’s a play on our last name (Gale) and the songbird that sings at night (we love to stay up late!) We quickly discovered, however, that there was already a group with the name we liked so we decided on “GaleSong”; still a play on our last name, and the fact that we like music. 

A few of our costume ideas: