MOTR - up and running for the sun...
So we're there now! Up and running for the sun - set your controls for its heart.
That's what we wanted to follow with MOTR.
I was in Marrakech and decided I wanted to get a three-piece together, as an offshoot to The Orch. I'd got some ideas as had Dan and we decided when I got back to get something together with which we could experiment and take to wherever we felt appropriate.
It wasn't a question of doing the standard 'jazz' trio thing (much as we love what's been done) as there's so many on the market now. Some great but an awful lot truly mediocre. And we wanted to kick ass a bit with different stuff, invest in some retro-psychdelic wonderment, get vibed by what vibed us, which had drive and passion, where we weren't constrained and which we could build on with a number of albums.
As it was a lot happened in our personal lives during its recording, which inevtiably had a bearing on the final outcome. And I don't give a rat's arse what anyone might say. I know it's a good album. Filled with different aspects and melody which whilst I love f*** y** beats, we needed to explore, away from sheer atonalism.
Marrakech I find wholly conducive to creativity and much of the album was written there. The track 'Secret Fire' came out of being vibed by the indigenous music floating from cafe to cafe whilst sampling delicious the al la menthe. It's a stimulatng and interesting city, like a kind of louche down-at-heel Paris. Plus it has style. And MOTR's got style along with creative guts, edge and finesse.
I'll be updating what we're doing as we go and giving my views and opinions on a range of subjects, from which I've never stinted. I worry about people with no opinions. Who always go with the flow. Always accept without questioning. If you don't have an opinion, get one ok!
Love
BB
That's what we wanted to follow with MOTR.
I was in Marrakech and decided I wanted to get a three-piece together, as an offshoot to The Orch. I'd got some ideas as had Dan and we decided when I got back to get something together with which we could experiment and take to wherever we felt appropriate.
It wasn't a question of doing the standard 'jazz' trio thing (much as we love what's been done) as there's so many on the market now. Some great but an awful lot truly mediocre. And we wanted to kick ass a bit with different stuff, invest in some retro-psychdelic wonderment, get vibed by what vibed us, which had drive and passion, where we weren't constrained and which we could build on with a number of albums.
As it was a lot happened in our personal lives during its recording, which inevtiably had a bearing on the final outcome. And I don't give a rat's arse what anyone might say. I know it's a good album. Filled with different aspects and melody which whilst I love f*** y** beats, we needed to explore, away from sheer atonalism.
Marrakech I find wholly conducive to creativity and much of the album was written there. The track 'Secret Fire' came out of being vibed by the indigenous music floating from cafe to cafe whilst sampling delicious the al la menthe. It's a stimulatng and interesting city, like a kind of louche down-at-heel Paris. Plus it has style. And MOTR's got style along with creative guts, edge and finesse.
I'll be updating what we're doing as we go and giving my views and opinions on a range of subjects, from which I've never stinted. I worry about people with no opinions. Who always go with the flow. Always accept without questioning. If you don't have an opinion, get one ok!
Love
BB
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