Obviously, a lot of work would have been done in pre-production and Mike Shipley has explained that the mix was quite experimental.But still, what an achievement. I'm still amazed that the recording only took five weeks. There is definitely a sonic affinity between Steve McQueen and The Flat Earth.
On the boil is a batch of new songs for a forthcoming Spike Lee movie. Photograph: Anthony Cake/Photoshot/Getty Images.
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Instead of playing full chords on piano or guitar, Dolby would choose to have each instrument play a different part of the chord, thus creating space in the arrangement.Īt the time of the recording of Steve McQueen, Dolby was using the Fairlight extensively, as well as the PPG wave and Jupiter 8 synths. Paddy McAloon and Wendy Smith of Prefab Sprout in the mid-1980s. The choice of chord inversions was a collaborative effort between the two, but Paddy has said numerous times in interviews that he was amazed at Dolby's arranging skills and his ability to break up the harmonic spectrum into different sections and allocate different parts to guitar, synths, pianos, backing vocals.etc.
I guess he then would have laid out some rhythmic ideas with a drum machine and experimented with various keyboard voicings. Join others and track this artist Prefab Sprout are an English pop band from Witton Gilbert, County Durham formed in 1976, who rose to fame during the 1980s. Those basic cassette recordings were what Dolby used to work out the arrangements in pre-production stage. When they first got together, Paddy McAloon played Dolby 40 to 50 songs that he had knocking about.ĭolby then picked the ones that he liked best and asked McAloon to record them with just a guitar and vocal.
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