2011年10月10日星期一

It was a long process, it was a long road

The 50 Rockers and Rappers to Follow on TwitterHow much pressure were you Cheap Rosetta Stone feeling to live up to the success of your last two projects?In the past, I guess I was able to block it out or something, but for this I went through a lot of weird mental stuff for sure. It just became something that I kind of had to fend off in my mind a little bit, like constantly thinking, Maybe this isnt good enoughand stuff like that, just always kind of weird doubts and stuff like that. I just kind of had to get over that every day.Where did you record this record?I did Person Pitch in this little room in my old apartment [in Lisbon, Portugal where Lennox was living with his wife and newborn baby]. Now, theres this building called the Interpress Building in Lisbon that used to be a factory, and its become art studios and dance studios and stuff its right near the center of town, and its pretty close to my apartment. And Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 I share a little space with some other band, and thats where I did all of Tomboy.Photos: Random NotesWas it good to have sort of an office to go to?Totally, yeah. Its pretty much the way it was treated too, I would just go there on weekdays. It was weird cause I had to start working during the day for the most part, all the Person Pitch stuff was done late at night, just kind of when I prefer to do stuff. But just cause my life has changed, Ive had to reset my schedule a little bit, so I was working during the day. My studio now is in the basement of the building, and theres no windows and its like, Ooh, this is weird.This dark, dank little home down there.Could you pretend it was night?Sort of. Its a weird kind of its like youre in the night when its dark and becomes morning, and you see a little light, it was more like that kind Rosetta Stone Japanese of feeling you knew there was light outside the building, but it had a really dark vibe.So what did you actually have in your room there?I have a laptop and monitors and I have this synth module I used a lot, a Korg M-3. I fed everything through that one, when I play the songs live thats how I do it. Just like with Person Pitchand I guess Young Prayer, too, I had played the songs live before I recorded them. So all the recorded versions kind of have this live foundation and then I have expanded on that with multi-tracking certain things, or blending things together, adding sounds that hopefully reinforce my idea of the song.Given how often people compare you to Brian Wilson, were you deliberately tweaking that idea with a song title as Beach Boys-y as "Surfers Hymn"?Uhh, it wasnt. [laughs] But yeah, that was my Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 original title for it because when you say it, it would be the kind of thing that someone would be like What?

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