[kj] FW: New Blog Post from youth on 09/11/2009 18:06:14

[Phillipps Marc]

If the album is half as good as Youths blog it should be amazing :o) 

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]
On Behalf Of Antoni Adamiak
Sent: 10 November 2009 07:14
To: The Gathering
Subject: [kj] FW: New Blog Post from youth on 09/11/2009 18:06:14

 


>From Myspace :

 
Day1
The recording of Killing Joke 13 has begun !
For regular updates and full warts and all blogs... including video
clips, sound-bites, band members personal diary extracts upcoming tour
info etc
check killing joke.com
<http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vam9rZS5jb20=> .
Day 1 ..............11/11/09
After an intensive weekend of flights, setting up gear and sound
checking equipment.....recording has begun on the new killing Joke
album.The first time with the original lineup of Jaz, Geordie, Big Paul
and Youth for over 26 years!
The weight of massive expectation hung heavy in the air and was felt by
everyone on sunday whilst we were setting up.
Clive our engineer, arms flailing whilst head burrowed in a mixing
desk... barking commands to his under prepared assistants,
who were doing their best to avoid eye contact with the intimidating
individual band members .Each demanding their own special attention with
the frenzied intensity generally reserved for a firm of armed bank
robbers on a job!
After deftly circumnavigating the usual computer / mixing desk /
technical gremlins a circle was cast and the opening ceremony commenced.
We are in the legendary Britannia Row studio complex in SW London, very
close to an ancient sacred burial site on the banks of the river Thames
and the ceremony reflected this. More details of this will be posted on
the KJ website .
Playing together in the studio again was like one huge coiled iron
spring being released after almost 30 years of being slowly wound up!
In between laying down some explorative takes ,heated debate was insuing
as to which production philosophy we should employ as to how to best
capture this vast sound. This isn't as straight forward as it may seem
as we are collectively producing the album together and all have vastly
different and contrasting ideas and philosophies as to how we should
achieve our shared vision.....of course this is what gives us our unique
chemistry and you can rest assured we do not shy away from it.
Tired, drained and emotionally drawn, we called an early night after Jaz
had one asthma inhaler hit too many and wanted to re-record everything
we did that day again from the beginning!
It was a good call as when we re commenced early monday morning,
refreshed and recharged, we immediately realized the tempo of the track
was way too slow.
After referencing some Bonham drum tracks for sound and tonal quality
...clive had Big Paul sounding like an primordial grunting warthog,
stuck in the mud with spears in his back....so heavy the walls were
shaking from the sonic thunder !
This put everyone in an extremely good mood and the arrangement and
performance came together very quickly.
A majestic ,thuggish and unrelenting rhythm track manifested ! Geordie
pulled a couple of other banjos out the bag and we overdubbed some
vicious, tetradactyl protecting her babies, white lightning guitar
takes.
A filthy bass was corrected and then Jaz got weighed in with some
disturbing synth layers .
By 9 pm the track was sounding so razor tight and with a delicious
malicious punch, we were all jumping around the room with big grins on
our faces, partly from the relief it was all coming together but also
from the sheer joy of hearing the chemistry unleashed once more.
We then decided to record a totally spontaneous jam utilizing a
manifesto of the barest economy of notes and restraint 
whilst applying intensity of emotion to compensate the musical
minimalism. directly invoking and referencing our former producer Conny
Plank philosophy of his work with Kraftwerk, Can and Neu! Three takes
later and an epic study in restraint and release was realized and i left
the studio tonight elated and exulted from the experience.

 

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> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:06:18 -0800

> Subject: New Blog Post from youth on 09/11/2009 18:06:14

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