On Re-Working Old Material For The New Album
S.T: Back to the new album, youve included the singles from the last few years; Passionflower, Aint Nobody and Message in a Bottle, was that to breathe knew life into them through re-recording, or to put them on-album for a bigger audience?
J.G: Yeah theyre completely new recordings, they sound really different, the tempos are different and the mixing as well, I had a Producer on this album, so basically I said to him, Just take them somewhere different if you want to, with the effects to take them just somewhere a little bit different Of course then you were caught between wanting to do something new, and be creative with that, but not wanting to p*ss off the people who liked those tunes! (laughs), they might listen to the album and go Urgh its awful! yno? Something like Aint Nobody, its a fairly simple tune, but theres a middle section where hes gone really nuts and put in a lot of flange on the echo on it, and it just sounds really nuts, but its really cool! (laughs) Every time I hear it, it just makes me smile! Also because hes mixed it, Message in a Bottle is a really complicated tune, theres a lot going on within the tune, its so fiddly and intricate, but hes brought out and it sounds how it was always supposed to sound, but I could never get it right on tape, so Im really pleased with that!