Spain have launched a newly unearthed observe, “I Lied”, as a taster of their upcoming archival launch, World Of Blue – watch the video under.
The album collects 5 beforehand unheard tracks from a 1994 session at Los Angeles‘s Poop Alley Studio, previous their debut album, 1995’s The Blue Moods Of Spain.
The demos had been misplaced for many years, and solely rediscovered final yr, when the tapes had been baked in Florida by producer Kramer and newly blended.
“I paid for the session with weed I grew in my closet,” explains Spain’s chief Josh Haden. “We arrange and it beginning raining. Tom [Grimley] put a microphone outdoors. For lunch, we’d stroll via the alley over to India Sweets and Spices, on Fairfax simply north of Pico. After monitoring was completed, Petra [Haden] came visiting and overdubbed violin. There was a cushioned space the place I bear in mind sitting throughout mixdown. There have been little stacks of Aphex 16-track tape in all places.
“I first discovered concerning the blues as a mode and artform after I was a youngster, raiding my father’s file assortment. One of many issues I observed that elevated the blues over different musical varieties, reminiscent of punk rock, was the flexibility to subtly manipulate the obvious message of a tune for deeper impact, for instance, making a tragic tune glad, or vice versa. ‘I Lied’ is an try at this idea. It begins out as a love tune however ends a lot in a different way. I really like Kramer’s new manufacturing, repeating the vocal line on the finish, one thing I’d want I’d considered doing again then.”
World Of Blue is launched on September 30 via Shimmy-Disc/Joyful Noise.
