NEW Alanis!!!!
According to an interview with Guy Sigsworth and Andy Page who produce Alanis' new album, the recording of it is finished!
Guy and Alanis wrote around 25 songs for the album, and 13 of them will appear on the new record. At the moment he's working on 8 more songs for exclusives and specials .... sounds great!
I even have the hope that we might see a release before the end of 2007 :)
"Which project are you working on right now?"
Guy Sigsworth: "We've just finished the new Alanis Morissette album. She's asked us to do a few more tracks - B-sides and exclusives with her. She's a dream to work with - she's totally into my sound world. If I make a noise that makes me feel a certain way, I know it's going to make her feel that way too. I wrote twenty-five songs with her. We recorded thirteen for the album, and we're doing eight more now. She can write a song so quickly. It's truly amazing. On one song I opened Reaktor (Akkord), she walked in, said, 'Oh, that's pretty', and we started jamming against it. 20 minutes later we had a song."
"Is your working method more hardware or software-oriented?"
Andy Page "Software. We've both been working that way for years. For me nearly ten years now. There's so much more control with software. A great instrument is a great instrument, it doesn't matter if it's hardware or software, these days what is in the computer is so good. It's also a convenience thing - with Alanis we'd be working on twelve songs at once and if you need to load a song up at once all the sounds are there and you can just continue. It's a completely different world, mindblowing. I just rock up with my laptop and I've got all my sounds."
"Like Guitar Rig, which you often use?"
GS: "It just sounds so good. With guitars we always used to keep a D.I. backup recording so we could re-amp later. But once we started using Guitar Rig the sounds were so vibey we just committed to them immediately. We knew we weren't going to change our minds about them."
AP: "There was one particular Alanis song with moshing distorted guitars. Usually we'd double-track left and right in that kind of song, to get the "wall-of-noise". But the sound of one guitar coming out of Guitar Rig (and fed into two different cabinet setups) was so big we really didn't need an overdub. One was plenty big enough. Guitar Rig is really playable. I've spent quite a lot of time just making my own sounds, the sort of things that I would usually use."
GS: "It's not geeky. You don't need to refer to the manual. Perfect for guitarists! The quality of the emulations - NI have stolen the lead. We can concentrate on the part, because we're getting the sound so easily."
AP: "And if we need to, we can change the sound of the speaker cabinet even at mix down. Knowing that makes for peace of mind."
....
"Which Native Instruments products do you use?"
GS: "Right now I'm avoiding analog subtractive synthesis. Other sounds excite me more. I'm focussing a lot on FM8. I used to own a DX11 and loved it, so FM8 is pretty natural to me. I use Reaktor on pretty well everything. I prefer using its granulators and weirder signal processors to its synths. Some of its physically modeled stuff is very cool, and there are some cool wavetable synths. It's all over the Alanis album. I've got Massive and like it, but I haven't had time to program my own noises yet. Andy and I don't like just inheriting other peoples' preset noises. We have to "own" our own sounds."
AP: "I love Spektral Delay to bits. It's a personal trademark. I use it on guitars, synths, acoustic guitars, I use it on drums, vocals, whenever I want to make something sound special and a bit different. It's quite otherworldly. There's nothing else like it."
....
"How do you think the music scene will develop over the next five years?"
GS: "I think shareholders of major record labels should be very, very scared - maybe they should invest in other businesses instead. But I still believe in music. I refuse to be pessimistic about it. If you don't like what you're hearing on the Top Forty just go and explore the internet - there's loads of wonderful music out there, much of it domestically recorded. And if there's less big money to be made from music the quality may actually improve. If there's no money in it, nobody will bother making a Westlife record. It's only money that drives those people. So they'll just stop. But the people I love, they'll carry on writing songs and making music no matter what, even if they have to get day jobs to pay for it. As Frank Zappa said, Music is The Best."
Source
- Distorted guitars
- 13 new tracks, 25 written, working on 8 more --> exclusives and specials (for singles eg)
It seems there's something coming - and I have the feeling that the content of the songs (=lyrics) will be rather awesome! I'm already crazy about it
PS: I very much like the "temporary" new site for the regular updates with pics. Today I found this quote that kinda swept me off my feet. An aphorism so simple yet amazing. Food for thought:
Guy and Alanis wrote around 25 songs for the album, and 13 of them will appear on the new record. At the moment he's working on 8 more songs for exclusives and specials .... sounds great!
I even have the hope that we might see a release before the end of 2007 :)
"Which project are you working on right now?"
Guy Sigsworth: "We've just finished the new Alanis Morissette album. She's asked us to do a few more tracks - B-sides and exclusives with her. She's a dream to work with - she's totally into my sound world. If I make a noise that makes me feel a certain way, I know it's going to make her feel that way too. I wrote twenty-five songs with her. We recorded thirteen for the album, and we're doing eight more now. She can write a song so quickly. It's truly amazing. On one song I opened Reaktor (Akkord), she walked in, said, 'Oh, that's pretty', and we started jamming against it. 20 minutes later we had a song."
"Is your working method more hardware or software-oriented?"
Andy Page "Software. We've both been working that way for years. For me nearly ten years now. There's so much more control with software. A great instrument is a great instrument, it doesn't matter if it's hardware or software, these days what is in the computer is so good. It's also a convenience thing - with Alanis we'd be working on twelve songs at once and if you need to load a song up at once all the sounds are there and you can just continue. It's a completely different world, mindblowing. I just rock up with my laptop and I've got all my sounds."
"Like Guitar Rig, which you often use?"
GS: "It just sounds so good. With guitars we always used to keep a D.I. backup recording so we could re-amp later. But once we started using Guitar Rig the sounds were so vibey we just committed to them immediately. We knew we weren't going to change our minds about them."
AP: "There was one particular Alanis song with moshing distorted guitars. Usually we'd double-track left and right in that kind of song, to get the "wall-of-noise". But the sound of one guitar coming out of Guitar Rig (and fed into two different cabinet setups) was so big we really didn't need an overdub. One was plenty big enough. Guitar Rig is really playable. I've spent quite a lot of time just making my own sounds, the sort of things that I would usually use."
GS: "It's not geeky. You don't need to refer to the manual. Perfect for guitarists! The quality of the emulations - NI have stolen the lead. We can concentrate on the part, because we're getting the sound so easily."
AP: "And if we need to, we can change the sound of the speaker cabinet even at mix down. Knowing that makes for peace of mind."
....
"Which Native Instruments products do you use?"
GS: "Right now I'm avoiding analog subtractive synthesis. Other sounds excite me more. I'm focussing a lot on FM8. I used to own a DX11 and loved it, so FM8 is pretty natural to me. I use Reaktor on pretty well everything. I prefer using its granulators and weirder signal processors to its synths. Some of its physically modeled stuff is very cool, and there are some cool wavetable synths. It's all over the Alanis album. I've got Massive and like it, but I haven't had time to program my own noises yet. Andy and I don't like just inheriting other peoples' preset noises. We have to "own" our own sounds."
AP: "I love Spektral Delay to bits. It's a personal trademark. I use it on guitars, synths, acoustic guitars, I use it on drums, vocals, whenever I want to make something sound special and a bit different. It's quite otherworldly. There's nothing else like it."
....
"How do you think the music scene will develop over the next five years?"
GS: "I think shareholders of major record labels should be very, very scared - maybe they should invest in other businesses instead. But I still believe in music. I refuse to be pessimistic about it. If you don't like what you're hearing on the Top Forty just go and explore the internet - there's loads of wonderful music out there, much of it domestically recorded. And if there's less big money to be made from music the quality may actually improve. If there's no money in it, nobody will bother making a Westlife record. It's only money that drives those people. So they'll just stop. But the people I love, they'll carry on writing songs and making music no matter what, even if they have to get day jobs to pay for it. As Frank Zappa said, Music is The Best."
Source
- Distorted guitars
- 13 new tracks, 25 written, working on 8 more --> exclusives and specials (for singles eg)
It seems there's something coming - and I have the feeling that the content of the songs (=lyrics) will be rather awesome! I'm already crazy about it
PS: I very much like the "temporary" new site for the regular updates with pics. Today I found this quote that kinda swept me off my feet. An aphorism so simple yet amazing. Food for thought: