[kj] FW: New Blog Post from youth on 09/11/2009 18:06:14
Brendan
bq at soundgardener.co.nz
Wed Nov 11 14:49:53 EST 2009
Jaz could school him on the superiority of NZ butter, sure it would be
high on the agenda ;)
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> Funnily enough PIL are now rehearsing nearby in Putney - probably in
> Disraeli Road where KJ where camped out in December 1988 ...
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> * http://home.clara.net/antoni/lite1111.jpg *
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> What odds the chaps meeting up for a bevvy ... or a slice of bread with
> Country Life butter ???
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> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:17:52 +0000
> From: bawhitehead at gmail.com
> To: gathering at misera.net
> Subject: Re: [kj] FW: New Blog Post from youth on 09/11/2009 18:06:14
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>>>We are in the legendary Britannia Row studio complex in SW London
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> Any London gatherers sneak in there with a carefully concealed recorder.
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> 2009/11/10 Antoni Adamiak <pssyche23 at hotmail.com>
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>>From Myspace :
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> 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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>> From: noreply at message.myspace.com
>> To: pssyche23 at hotmail.com
>> 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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