Ari neufeld biography of barack

I was also influenced a lot by the music I heard travelling when I was a child. My parents bought me a weird 4 stringed instrument when we went to Morocco that made a really nice drone, which had a big influence on my future playing. And then of course all the music that was bursting from the TV and radio as I was growing up at a time when music was at its very best!

But I think it was hearing Public Image and and Joy Division that had the biggest influence in getting me to pick up the bass. Hearing how simple and at the same time pivotal the bass lines were and realising that this was something I too could play, something that was within my grasp. I love Cinema, particularly Hitchcock and Scorsese.

I realise now, just how integral music is to the films of those directors and how great the soundtracks to their films always were. I am a huge fan of Ennio Morricone and John Barry, so love virtually everything they have written a score for. My idea of perfect relaxation is lying on a rock, just starring at the sea for hours, preferably in Sicily.

Or reading a good novel. I like going to exhibitions, but tend to prefer the smaller ones, as the big retrospectives at the Tate etc are always so crowded. There are lots of small private galleries in the West End that one can just walk into and look at their shows undisturbed. I am also a big advocate of Retail Therapy! Actually, recently it seems most of the emerging artists I like are women, which is great.

Sukie Smith. I have been working on a solo album forever. It is mainly instrumental, with layers and layers of floating, dreamlike sound which is what is so time consuming , A bit like parts of See Those Colours Fly. And of course working on new Breathless material. The Stones are my favourite band ever. I have loved this ever since I was a small child.

Joan Baez is one of my favourite singers ever and this my favourite song of hers. I have seen Morricone play in London 6 times and Andrea Morricone once , but I am always taken back to the first time I saw him perform this at the Albert Hall. We were in the second row and I remember watching Susanna Rigacci, preparing for her vocal part and then hearing her sing it for the first time.

It was absolutely spell binding. I love the way the song builds and builds. But there is something particularly poignant about an old man singing those optimistic lyrics, which gives this version the edge. The first time I heard this, it was like aliens had landed. The synth sound was so unique and the lyrics spoke of a tantalising world of glamour, that I immediately wanted to be part of.

Breathless re-emerged in with their fifth album Blue Moon , an album featuring a more prominent drone rock influence. The following album Behind the Light was released in June and continued the band's sonic foray into space and drone rock. In , Martyn Watts announced his departure from the band, but in Breathless announced the return of original drummer Latimer Sayer.

The seventh Breathless studio album, Green to Blue , was released in November , issued as a double album. After nearly ten years of recording inactivity, the band announced their eighth studio album, entitled See Those Colours Fly , which was eventually released on 29 July Ari Neufeld provided drum programming in lieu of live drums on the album; in an interview with Silent Radio , she explained, "This certainly wasn't intentional.

We had just come back from Italy where we had been playing some of the new songs and a couple of days before we were due to go into the studio to record the first one, we heard that our drummer Tristram [Latimer Sayer] had been in a really bad car accident and was in a coma. I think we thought if we go ahead and record, it will mean he will be OK and can add his drums later.

This isn't as irrational as it sounds, as on our last album Green to Blue , we recorded everything to a click track and then added the real drums last. Thankfully Tristram is better, and I hope will be able to drum with us in the future. At the same time I was starting to learn how to use Logic and programme drums. At the beginning it was just so we had something comfortable to play along to at rehearsal, but eventually we really got into it and it really suited our way of working.

Appleton was one of a select few artists to contribute to This Mortal Coil who was not a 4AD signing. Watts-Russell said of Appleton, "Without exaggeration Dominic Appleton is by far my favourite living male vocalist. He has such a beautiful, sad voice and comes up with melodies that do the same". Breathless established their own record label, Tenor Vossa Records, to release their material.

He said, "Hearing ' Song to the Siren ' for the first time was a monumental moment for me, and It'll End in Tears was stunning This Mortal Coil are there in the Breathless melting pot, music that's so beautiful and fragile". He also said, "I am not a huge fan of many male singers, but I think John Grant has a stunning voice and I've listened to David Sylvian since I was a teenager".

In the interview with Pennyblackmusic , Appleton said that his lyrics are autobiographical. In the past people have criticised us for our melancholy sound and I felt defensive about it and tried to justify it. I just don't care now, the fact is that's what we do and what I love about what we do. The bulk of the music I listen to is melancholy and I know Ari and Gary are the same.

I listen to pop music too when I feel like it and I enjoy it a lot but it's a different kind of listening. I don't understand why people find melancholia a negative thing in music. I think it's positive, it's reflective and thoughtful, it's complex and it's wonderfully indulgent and emotional. It's not wallowing in self-pity, it's losing yourself in self-reflection and nostalgia".

Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Making albums is such a personal endeavor as you have alluded to. When recording, is the band conscious of listeners hearing Breathless records in their entirety and does that affect how you sequence a record? To me, that is a lost art in this day and age. AN : We definitely sequence a record with the idea in mind that people will listen to it as a whole, so we try and build the mood and are very conscious of the way the record flows from one track to the next.

But this is something we do right at the end after we have chosen which songs to include. Most of our regular studio albums were recorded in two sessions usually about six months or a year apart from each other. DA : Absolutely we think about the sequence. Since Blue Moon i. It just worked cut up that way. Photo by Kevin Westenberg.

Has that kind of band chemistry been present since day one? AN : Yes I think it has always been there because we are all such close friends and tell each other everything. Dominic and Gary grew up together, and I worked with Dominic at the Virgin Megastore and I shared a flat with him for a while, so we spent a lot of time together and I think if you spend that much time together you start to sense what the other person is thinking.

For me, one of the most magical things about Breathless is that Dominic and Gary come up with the vocal and guitar parts that I would if I could sing or play guitar as well as they can. I remember the first rehearsal we had with Gary, it was almost like there was some weird telepathy going on, he was playing exactly what I was hearing in my head!

And this was about half an hour after we had first met and had only spoken about ten words to each other. I absolutely love it. GM : Yes. We do seem to know generally what we each need to do. It just tends to work somehow. JB : There will always be more interest in songs that reach into the depths of who we are as human beings and the struggles we face.

Do you think melancholia assists in crafting better songs? AN : Absolutely! But maybe that just shows what a miserable person I am! There are very few upbeat songs that I like, or that I would aspire to write myself. All the music I listen to is melancholy so that is what inspires and influences me. Plus I find writing very cathartic, so if I am feeling down about something, I find that writing music can really lift my spirit and take me out of that dark place.

DA : Ha, I concur! None of us are but we are all quite introspective. It definitely suits us. We laugh a lot in the studio too when we are recording. JB : I am delighted to hear there is a new record in the works. How close to completion is it and is it something more experimental as Gary mentioned in regards to Blue Moon? I would imagine it would be pretty tricky to describe until its finished?

Ari neufeld biography of barack

But I would say we have written about two thirds of it. A lot of the new songs are shorter and poppier than say, on Blue Moon. Though having said that, we have decided we would like to do a long piece like Behind The Light as well. Actually I realise that in answering this question I am contradicting what I said earlier in answer to your question about being aware of the finished album as a whole right from the start.

Which makes me realise that this is something that has changed over the years and that we have become more aware of how we would like the finished album to sound, both in terms of the actual songs and in terns of the overall sound.