Tindersticks' 8th studio album, Falling Down A Mountain will be released in Europe on 25 January (on 4AD) with a North American release following 16 February (on Constellation).
Tindersticks on the making of Falling Down A Mountain:
Our last album, The Hungry Saw, was our first in five years. We didn’t really know what to expect on its release; we had just six concerts booked, and everyone was a little nervous…
That was April 2008. The success of those concerts, including the Royal Festival Hall in London and the Folies Bergere in Paris, took us all by surprise and led to seventy more shows in Europe and the US - ending with a beautiful summer’s evening headlining The Serpentine Sessions in Hyde Park in July of 2010.
In our ‘downtime’, we have scored 2 film soundtracks for Claire Denis: the much loved and critically acclaimed 35 Shots Of Rum and, due for release in the new year, White Material, which stars Isabelle Huppert. Somewhere during that time, we were also commissioned to create the music for the Louis Vuitton summer collection in Paris.
From those nervous beginnings a new unity and sense of direction grew. Where once our touring days were spent hanging around, killing time, now we found ourselves cobbling together acoustic rehearsals for new ideas in dressing rooms and venue corridors. There was a growing need to explore and we quickly started working in the studio.
Very soon this work became Falling Down A Mountain, our eighth studio album. Recorded at the band’s own Le Chien Chanceux studio in rural France and at ICP in Brussels between May and July 2009 and mixed at Le Chien’ in September and October.
With hindsight, The Hungry Saw now seems like an album made within the confines of what we knew; in making Falling Down A Mountain those boundaries became irrelevant.
The title track was borne out of a collection of moments; a dreamed idea recorded into a mobile phone in the night evolving into a spontaneous recording with the band, Terry Edwards’ trumpet (we didn’t play him the song, just gave him some clues, ran the tape and he played into the silence), singing with David Kitt and his great overdubbed guitar… All, more or less, made in one or two takes. Sometimes you just get lucky.
From the dream of building Le Chien’ three years ago, this is the first recording that gets close to what we have been looking for and gives all the effort some meaning.
The album ran on from there in many different directions, but always with a shared feeling between all the musicians and a sense of discovery towards the ideas. Highlights were many and varied: singing a duet with Mary Margaret O’Hara; new additions to the group in the shape of Earl Harvin (drums and vocals) and David Kitt (guitar and vocals) brought with them new colours to the music, and their voices combining with bassist Dan McKinna’s realised a long dreamt of “vocal section” within the band. In addition, Jo Fraser and Andy Nice, who have played a big part in our soundtrack work, provided some great flute and cello moments.
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WOW! You've just made my day! Just read the news you will come to my hometown: The Hague! I'll be there!!! Looking forward to the new album & the gig! C U then!
I hope you British Brothers can clear The Black Smoke in time for a Happy Christmas!!
My musical world has recently exploded with my Blues Gangsters' single "We Are Washed Clean" (from our debut album The Perils of Life) being picked up by Ms. Angie Bowie for her International AIDS BEGONE! Cyber-Party (on December 22nd) & her Fundraising Compilation CD SET...!! I'll also be featured on Gary Heffern's title track of his new album Beautiful People, due out in January, 2010!
Who new I would be in such good company? 2009 was a year of true blessings!
Good luck with your new album.Looking forward to it;) Do you need support on Rockefeller ( Norway ) March 15th? I have a release on my new album April, and me and my band would love to support you;)
HI lads, love Black smoke and just added it to my page.... Hope you get back to Dublin next year... you were brilliant in Vicar St. Looking forward to the new album and have a happy christmas and a great 2010. Love Bernadine
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