Almost 17 years ago, our album Lunchbox was first released. Back then, we barely had enough money to hire a professional studio for the recordings. So we recorded part of the album in our rehearsal room, with the help of our wonderful sound engineer Peter Schweighofer, and a large part at my own small home recording studio at the time.
The album was mastered on a tight budget at a mastering studio in Hamburg.
Years later, I still think the album holds up really well, but I always felt a little disappointed that the sound quality didn’t quite live up to my expectations. So this year, I decided it was time to remaster it.
In the end, the project also turned into a remix of many of the songs using stem separation, as I no longer had the original mixes after all these years.
So, for the past six months, I’ve been working on giving Lunchbox a fresh makeover: warmer, denser, clearer, with a touch of vintage character.
Throughout the process, however, it was very important to me to preserve the character of the original album. I of course I only made improvements that wouldn’t change the songs themselves. Apart from the overall sound, these included just a few minor adjustments to reverb, volume balances, subtle timing corrections, and so on.
It was a careful restoration, carried out with a lot of love and attention to detail.
I hope you enjoy the result!
Lunchbox was a huge project back then, and I received a lot of help and support along the way. I’d like to take this opportunity to mention everyone by name who helped make Lunchbox possible.
Bandmembers
Richard Kapp
Agnes Rössler
Alexander Csurmann
Bernadette Ott
Christine Pawlik
Christian Gold
Roland Liegle
Guest musicians
Tony Cimorosi – NS electric upright bass on “Driving Lessons”
Woodstock Taylor – vocals on “So Dirty”
Ina Simone – vocals on “Another Town”
Markos M-Triantafyllou – clarinet on “I Will Catch You” and “Lunchbox”
Production & Artwork
Peter Schweighofer – engineering
Elizabeth Solaka – album photography (cover & booklet)
Silver Sound Studios, Hamburg – mastering
Richard Kapp – engineering, remixed and remastered in 2026
Thanx for support:
Sam Hacker (he came up with the name of our band)
Anne Ordonneau – for coming up with the song title “I Will Catch You”
Kathi Fritz for supporting us