![]() ![]() Songwriting has always been a miraculous process which is incredibly satisfying, and I don't necessarily understand how it's done. Photo police turns into superman kirklands free#Wrote a few images down, a bit of free association, and then after a while you get some idea of a structure. So I got his room: OK, I'm in Proust's room, Remembrance of Things Past and all that, right, sat down and looked at the sea. I went to Normandy one weekend when I'd just started the album and I stayed in the hotel that Proust used to stay in. The way the chorus comes in is lifted from the first cello suite. You'd be surprised that the basis of 'All This Time' the most recent single is actually a piece of Bach - really pretentious, but it's true. I think my intention is to implicate the listener, rather than impress him immediately. It's much more layered than my stuff used to be. "Most people who listened to the new album said they didn't like it the first time, but it grew on them. A lot of it, you're touching deep areas of resistance and prejudice and, actually, hatred, which I don't know how much is to do with the music or to do with my projected image, or what." ![]() Some of the reviews you can classify as revenge of the nerds - hate mail. There's a polarity about them which is quite extraordinary and, I suppose, in a way, confirming. "This latest album has got the best reviews I've ever had - and the worst. I'm not an expert, I'm just working on myself. ![]() The core ideas behind ideologies are great, but invariably they get twisted. I mean, I'm not anti-religious, but if you believe anything wholesale, you open yourself up to a lot of perversions of the initial content. We come into the world alone and we leave alone. "That's what the 'Soul Cages' is about in a way working through things yourself rather than trusting in mass ideologies. ![]() I think it achieved what I wanted it to achieve in that I feel somehow, I don't know, like I've done the right thing." Having written all these words in a big burst, I then fitted them in with the musical fragments I had and put it together. It was written in about three or four weeks. I began with that, and the album just flowed. The first memory was of a ship, because I lived next to a shipyard when I was young, It was a very powerful image of this huge ship towering above the house. As soon as I remembered the first memory of my life, everything started to flow. I started at the beginning I started with my first memory. "I'd reached the age of thirty-eight, and I wanted to assess my life figure out what had gone wrong, what had gone right. They're still rather overwhelming for me." I don't kid myself that my experience is unique but I have a way of expressing things through songs that may be useful to someone else some sort of therapy. For me, at my age, it's an important subject. "The theme of the album is essentially about dealing with death. I became obsessed with my hometown and its history, images of boats and the sea, and my childhood in the shadow of the shipyards." Eventually I talked myself into going back to work, and this sombre collection of songs was the result. I just felt numb and empty, as if the joy had been leached out of my life. I felt emotionally and creatively paralysed, isolated, and unable to mourn. We'd had a difficult relationship, and his death hit me harder than I'd imagined possible. ![]()
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