Blur - 'Rumours of our demise have been grea …
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BLUR are back in the UK - and will finish mixing in DEVON.
The album, the band's seventh, is now almost complete. Currently
untitled, the record is due for release early next year. Bassist
Alex James has revealed that him, Damon Albarn and drummer Dave
Rowntree are looking at another unconventional place to work.
They recently flew out to Morocco with Fatboy Slim, where they
spent five weeks recording.
Blur chose Devon instead of their traditional studio, Townhouse
in London's Shepherd’s Bush, to finish the LP.
"The way we make music has changed," James wrote on the band's
official website. "Now all you need to make an album is a laptop,
one decent microphone and a cool haircut. For that matter swap
the microphone for a camera and you can make a feature film.
Technology is getting cheaper and more accessible, to such an
extent that you can completely lose yourself in it.
"You have to make sure that the equipment, which is now cleverer
than you are, is doing what you want it to do and not the other
way round. It takes a while to work that out."
James said that in the 12 months since work started on the new
record, he has recorded with "girls, greboes, orchestras and
maniacs", and explained more the band's reasons for travelling to
Africa - even if it meant leaving estranged guitarist Graham
Coxon in London.
He concluded: "Sunset takes about three hours. People from the
local villages climb the hills and watch it like we watch the
telly. It seems to serve a similar purpose. In order for it to
work you need good company or something important to think about.
"Mind you, we didn’t come here to go up our arses talking about
sunsets; we came here to make a kick ass record. In rural Africa
everything is stripped to its essence. The elegant simplicity of
Moroccan architecture and the subtle minimalism of the decor are
as posh as anything we get at home. There’s people up the road
and they’ve got no shoes. They don’t care, they haven’t left
Eden and they’re not going anywhere. If you don’t wear shoes you
just get blisters in different places. There’s no
fatties and no failure as far as I can see.
"By leaving the clutter of our lives behind we’ve managed to set
ourselves free. That’s all you can hope to do as a musician. Africa
is a long way from home. Further than Australia. It’s another
country and they do things differently here. Different God and
everything. Making music takes you to all the great cites of the
Western World, but you never really leave the bubble of Western
Civilization; it’s a real effort to do that but aren’t all the best
things? Rumours of our demise have been greatly exaggerated."
Published: 23-10-2002-14-29
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