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

Karen Weil karen.weil at sddt.com
Wed Nov 11 13:18:23 EST 2009


Forget the trumpeters -- xylophones are what's needed. ; )

Cheers,

k.w.
the States
----- Original Message -----
From: bongo
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] FW: New Blog Post from youth on 09/11/2009 18:06:14


sounds awesome!


=)


"due to a lack of trained trumpeters, the end of the world has been postponed indefinitely..."



On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:07 PM, melinda grant <hollytree1961 at hotmail.com> wrote:

i completely agree marc very well written by youth ;)and fingers crossed for the album;D

milindafgrant



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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:10:05 +0000
From: Marc.Phillipps at enfield.nhs.uk
To: gathering at misera.net

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



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.
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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