"One night I was walking on Highgate Hill when a drunk accosted me and kept asking, 'How beautiful is the moon' I replied, 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.' He said that was a good answer, and lurched off. Until she dies.I can't really open up and be creative." "I know all this is connected with my mother's situation. It's like building a brick wall with no mortar." Working with digital is weird, all the flaws are exposed, there's no warmth. It's rather cold and technical, not very 'up'.
"I don't know what the critics will think of this album. "Andy plays on the new record, and those tracks sound like the Police." It's about mothers and daughters, mistresses and wives, sisters. "I look back on this album and I realise that the record is about my mother although I didn't see it at the time. '.Nothing Like The Sun' was about stretching boundaries." They had to be able to play slightly beyond their abilities, even, so it was my job to interest and energize them. I also saw it as my job to inspire and challenge the musicians I was working with, because they were musicians of such a caliber that they would not be happy just playing I-IV-V in a harmonic scale. So the chords and arrangements were much more complex, and I wouldn't have arrived at that level of ability without the instrument. In other words, if you can slow something down you can work it out. Because of the way the machine worked, I managed to be able to compose things that were far more sophisticated than I would normally have access to. "'.Nothing Like The Sun' is probably the child of the Synclavier and the ability to slow down the composing instrument so that I can control it. As long as you're grounded somewhere in common sense." It confirms my belief that sophistication, or intended sophistication, is not the kiss of death. Now the record is doing well on the radio and in the shops the concerts are selling well. And I said, "Why underestimate the record-buying public Why do you imagine that they have to be spoon-fed all the time Does it have to be so utterly simple I don't think so. It wasn't simple enough or directed toward the charts. When this record was first completed and handed to the record company, they threw up their hands. In the Seventies, they called it art rock. But this music, taken to a logical conclusion, can only get more complicated and, maybe, indigestible. "Having made some of the simplest and most direct pop music, I don't know whether I want to do it again. And I think that maturity, as Jung says, means accepting the feminine principle, accepting sensitivity into your life as part of you and not as something that's alienating and frightening." l just think it can make you grow as a person to maturity. I'm not saying that music always ends up wimpy. Which is why heavy metal is not very long-lasting for most groups, because when you play music for awhile it matures you in a way that's not aggressive. But he has to work very hard now to maintain that because the music is mellowing him. His whole thing is to be this kind of aggressive, grimacing warrior, if you like. There's a benign element in all music that you can't hide or you can't disguise very long. Even the most violent punk band can't help but be creative. It's female it's intuitive, it's gentle, it's not aggressive. I mean, playing music and singing, writing songs, are definitely activities that are right-brained. "I suppose it's about femininity, the ying instead of the yang, which is a factor in all music. But basically I knew there was a core in each song that worked that you couldn't destroy." I could change the key, add whole sections to the song when it was already finished, change the tempo, everything. Although recording digitally was difficult and kind of alienating, it allowed me more flexibility in terms of arrangement. I don't have any doubts about this record. Which is why people were getting uptight and worrying that there wasn't anything there. Only now are we pulling it out it's been hidden in the machinery so long.
#ATMOSPHERE DISCOGRAPHY FREE#
It coincided with a time when this album became free of the machinery.
And the timing of my mother's death was linked to a lot of other events. I’m not saying I’m a saint, but I hope I’m moving towards maturity." I used to see women as sexual conquests, for having your children or massaging your ego. In the past few years, I’ve had more friends who are women than ever before.
Without the balance, you end up as Ryan of Hungerford, totally lost. Masculine traits are strength, single-mindedness and logic. You mustn’t suppress those qualities of creativity, kindness, openness and intuition. "A man needs to accept that part of his psychological make-up is feminine.
0 kommentar(er)
