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Musikmesse in Frankfurt twice and a special “One that stands out in my mind is looking Hilversum, Holland. During the recording
event at Hard Rock Dubai for The Peace One through Gibson Custom Shop guitar images process, I had been thinking about getting
Day Event. and sharing them with my brother Stu,” says strings on a track titled ‘I’ll Be Here’. During the
Following one of the LA trips, V2 Records Keith. “Not long after that, we got a call from recording of the album, The Metropole Orches-
and Wisseloord Studios made an offer to re- Gibson and were invited to play at CES in Las tra happened to be recording in the suite next
lease Xander And The Peace Pirates’ album. Vegas and then NAMM and Musikmesse. Dur- door, so the next day they had some spare
“We would have complete say over songs, art- ing MusikMesse, Stu met a guy called Duncan time and agreed to record strings on ‘I’ll Be
work and how we presented ourselves. This who worked for Koch Amps in Holland and he Here’. It was an amazing experience and com-
was key to our decision to sign with them.” then introduced us to Fred, who worked at Wis- pletely unexpected. They were amazing play-
The band released their debut album, seloord Studios for V2 records. After some time ers and truly lovely people. I cried and hugged
’11:11’, in 2016. The title was inspired by spiri- of communication and talking, through the lo- all of them. All of these events are all synchro-
tuality and synchronicity. They tell us that they gistics we then signed a deal with V2 and nized and part of life’s beautiful plan for us. We
have felt a lot of synchronicity in their own lives. recorded the album at Wisseloord Studios in are thankful for these beautiful experiences.

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