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

[Brian Whitehead]

>>We are in the legendary Britannia Row studio complex in SW London


Any London gatherers sneak in there with a carefully concealed recorder.

2009/11/10 Antoni Adamiak <pssyche23 at hotmail.com>


>  >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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> > youth has published a new blog post on MySpace.

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