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Updated: 18/12/03
In a rare and extended interview, The Coral talk to Zane Lowe following their recent live session
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Few artists can match The Coral for pace when it comes to performing live. They hurtle through their set, upping the tempo on songs and barely pausing for breath, while maintaining a musical precision that beggars belief. No surprise then, that their latest album took them just two weeks to make. Radio 1's Zane Lowe challenged the Merseyside maestros to reveal the secrets of their studio technique:
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"Being spontaneous is the best way of making music ... you can't make every record like that but it can really work..." |
Zane: 'Nightfreaks And The Sons Of Becker' sounds like a lost weekend, was that true of the making of the record?
The Coral: "We just did it in the time we had - a week and a half to record and then a couple of days to mix. We had a few songs we'd already written, and then we wrote a few and arranged a few more in there. Being spontaneous is the best way of making music. It doesn't always get the greatest results, you can't make every record like that, but it can really work sometimes. "
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There's six of you in the band - that's a lot of cooks in the kitchen...
"It is, but there's a fellow called Greyskull (an affectionate term for their producer, Lightning Seeds frontman Ian Broudie). We all bow to him, he sorts it all out. He's like an ancient guru. You know if it's crap though so you just get rid of it. And you tend to build on tracks in the studio anyway so you can tell when you've got to your limit of overdubs. We take stuff out too. On 'Magic and Medicine' there was loads more horns and stuff and they came out."
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