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

[The Exorcist]

Meh!

Leave it with the trumpeters. It's the best signature line I've ever seen. :)
(And I'm still tempted to plagiarize it.)

Ps. Why not not a Saxaphone. Ya know... Come in with some style. :)

Much love,
Me

At 01:18 PM 11/11/2009, Karen Weil wrote:

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

>

>Cheers,

>

>k.w.

>the States

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>From: <mailto:humanhybrid666 at gmail.com>bongo

>To: <mailto:gathering at misera.net>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

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>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 

><<mailto:hollytree1961 at hotmail.com>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: <mailto:Marc.Phillipps at enfield.nhs.uk>Marc.Phillipps at enfield.nhs.uk

>To: <mailto:gathering at misera.net>gathering at misera.net

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

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>

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

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>[mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of Antoni Adamiak

>Sent: 10 November 2009 07:14

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

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> >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 <http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vam9rZS5jb20=>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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