BREVES du 25.10.1999
Intervew de Hooverphonic par Side Line
We're proud to announce that Side-Line had an exclusive interview with
Hooverphonic's frontman Alex Callier this weekend about the new to come
still untitled Hooverphonic album. Since this interview is an exclusive
present for our online subscribers, it will not be published in the
printed magazine.
Before talking about the new album, Alex commented
that he wasn't all that happy about the previous album "Blue Wonder
Power Milk" and especially not about the production work done by Mark
Plati, who used to work for artists like David Bowie.
Alex: "Both the tracks and the orchestration on our latest album
were great, but I didn't like the production work of Mark Plati.
It didn't sound like a Hooverphonic production at all.
The result was too clean and clinical."
When asked how the album should have sounded, the answer is quite clear:
Alex: " Lots of strings and a real fat beat!"
In the end Hooverphonic liked their demos a lot more than the result.
Alex also revealed that Hooverphonic almost had recorded with
Tim Simenon, but the producer couldn't find spare time because
at that moment he was working with this other great band:
Depeche Mode. For the new album they asked Goetz, the
producer for bands like Faithless and Pet Shop Boys to remix three
songs. But Hooverphonic wasn't all that happy about this either:
Alex: "We
chopped him out because when we heard his remixes we discovered he had
thrown out every element that referred to the 80's though that was
especially the sound we wanted to create! So, no more external
producers, we'll do it ourselves! "
eanwhile, the band is also
considering recording in Dan Lacksman's (Telex) Sound & Vision studios,
because, so says Alex:
" That man has so many synthesizers, moreover,
Thomas Dolby recorded his "Flat Earth" in Dan's studios."
The Hooverphonic frontman is also working on a solo-album though he's not
sure when it will be recorded or even released.
Alex: "I've been working
on a long term soloproject as a singer songwriter and sometimes I have
some material left from Hooverphonic. You know, I've recorded 25 tracks
for the new album, but only 12 will end up being the actual album, so
that leaves me with some songs, no?"
Busy as always, Alex also recorded the score for Playstation's
"Need for Speed 3". Expect the new Hooverphonic album
somewhere in March, a single should be released in January.
Meanwhile we have heard two new (splendid) tracks in an accoustic version,
but as Alex's put it:
Alex: " The new album will be far more electronic, no more accoustic drums or so!"
(Side-Line issue 30 will include an interview with Alex Callier on the "Shades"
sountrack Hooverphonic recently recorded.)
