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Lamb, Craig Armstrong, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Nitin Sawhney
HOOVERPHONIC BIOGRAPHY
After a hectic year-and-a-half on the road followed by six months in the studio, Belgium's best known pop export Hooverphonic is back with its latest album Jackie Cane, dedicated to a late, great pop chanteuse destroyed by the demands of fame.
Hooverphonic's music has long defied definition. From the trip-hop tracks of A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular (1996), to the electronica/acoustic fusions of Blue Wonder Power Milk (1998) and the accomplished, string-laden arrangements of The Magnificent Tree (2000), the band's sound is continually evolving.
"I call it pop music but people seem to equate that term with artists like Britney Spears. So what does that make our music? Alternative pop? We're into so many styles of music and that's what you hear in there," says Alex Callier, the driving force behind the band.
Due for release in autumn 2002, Jackie Cane will no doubt confound music pundits once again. Revolving around the rise and fall of the late, pop singer Jackie Cane, it can perhaps be best described as a "pop musical".
Taking inspiration from concept albums such as Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson as well as the atmosphere of Kurt Weil, the album recounts Jackie's chaotic life and the claustrophobic relationship she endured with her twin sister through a series of musical flashbacks.
The voice of the band's enigmatic lead singer Geike Arnaert is pushed to new heights in an eclectic line-up of tracks ranging from the upbeat, full-on sound of The World is Mine to the stirring, string-backed Nirvana Blue to the more pensive The Kiss.
Matt Dunkley, who arranged and conducted the strings on Mad About You and Out of Sight on The Magnificent Tree, orchestrated many of the tracks. The rich sound of Hooverphonic and Dunkley's previous collaboration has been enhanced by the addition of wind instruments and percussion.
In between Jackie Cane and The Magnificent Tree, Dunkley has also worked on Craig Armstrong's As if to Nothing as well as the soundtrack for Baz Luhrman's Moulin Rouge.
Respected sound engineer Ali Staton, a longtime Hooverphonic collaborator who has also worked with the likes of Lamb, Mushtaq, Nitin Sawhney and Spacek, recorded and mixed the album. He also co-produced the album with Alex.
Alex's fascination with Jackie Cane was born out of a writing session some three years ago with pop star-turned-songwriter Cathy Dennis, who has just won a raft of awards for the Kylie Minogue hit Can't get you out of my head. His first tribute to Jackie was a namesake track on The Magnificent Tree.
Although the band members themselves are no strangers to the pressures of fame, The band denies Jackie's story is a reflection of their lives.
"Of course, there are bits and pieces of us in there. Jackie's a singer and her sister's a cook and I am a musician and a good cook, but it's by no way autobiographical" says Alex.
Alex wrote most the songs, with some input from Geike and Raymond, in between rock and pop festival dates over the summer of 2001. The band spent November and December recording at the Midas Studios Lokeren, Belgium. The first part of 2002 was spent in post-production.
The result is light years from the band's debut album A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular, containing the breakthrough track 2Wicky.
"We're far away from the 1980s influences of the first album which takes it cue from the likes of the Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance. It's funny because in the 90s, the 80s weren't cool and now they're back in vogue, we're a bit fed-up of them," says Alex.
2Wicky also made it onto the soundtrack of Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty, starring Liv Tyler as a young girl desperate to find love amid Tuscany's bohemian expatriate scene. Since then, the band's music has featured on a number of soundtracks.
The band's next album Blue Wonder Power Milk (BWPM), according to both band and critics was "A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular with less samples and better songs". It marked the start of the band's true experimentation with a rich string and wind instrument-laden sound.
Hooverphonic's latest incarnation gelled both in the studio and on stage with the penultimate album The Magnificent Tree, featuring Mad About You, which was a Europe-wide hit and also went down well in the United States.
The band spent a year-and-a-half touring following the release of the album in the US and across Europe.
The highlights of that period for the band were playing in front of a 50,000 home crowd at Belgium's Werchter festival in the summer of 2001 and a sold-out concert at the Vorst National arena just outside Brussels in November 2001. Hooverphonic was the first Belgian band to ever headline Werchter.
Geike, Alex and Raymond feel the band has come into its own over the last period. "We used to be a studio band that sometimes played live but we've become a great live act," he says. "After these past months in the studio, we are ready to get back on the road again." And Jackie Cane has won them Best Rock/Pop band & Best album out of CMA industry in 2002. |
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，好正点，但感觉不像live，可惜google搜不到关于这张碟的英
