RUSH: Neil Peart über das neue Album

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Neil Peart, Schlagzeuger von RUSH , führt in unregelmäßigen Abständen auf seiner Website eine Art Blog, in dem er seine Gedanken zu Gott und der Welt äußert. In seinem aktuellen Beitrag von Januar 2012 gibt er auch einige Details zu den Aufnahmen des neuen RUSH Albums „Clockwork Angels" preis.
Im Folgenden findet ihr ein paar Ausschnitte, den kompletten Text HIER .

"Most recently, I had been recording in Toronto with my bandmates, from mid-October until early December. We completed the songwriting and arranging for the album, Clockwork Angels, we started back in late 2009-before going "on hiatus" for the Time Machine tour, and playing 81 shows in North America, South America, and Europe. (Some hiatus.) While Alex and Geddy were finishing the writing and arranging in one smaller room of the studio, over in the big room I was working with The Mighty Booujzhe, recording my drum parts. As we prepare to start mixing in the New Year, it is too early to say anything about the results. (I once described mixing as "the end of waiting," while Geddy calls it, "the death of hope.") About the process, though, I can't resist spilling a little.

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In recent years I have been working deliberately to become more improvisational on the drums, and these sessions were an opportunity to attempt that approach in the studio. I played through each song just a few times on my own, checking out patterns and fills that might work, then called in Booujzhe. He stood in the room with me, facing my drums, with a music stand and a single drumstick-he was my conductor, and I was his orchestra. (I later replaced that stick with a real baton.)
Rush songs tend to have complicated arrangements, with odd numbers of beats, bars, and measures all over the place, and our latest songs are no different (maybe worse-or better, depending). In the past, much of my preparation time would be spent just learning all that. I don't like to count those parts, but rather play them enough that I begin to feel the changes in a musical way. Playing it through again and again, those elements became "the song"


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