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There is a mandolin on the album version of "Yahweh", so this isn't exactly new territory.
The_acrobat said:There is a mandolin on the album version of "Yahweh", so this isn't exactly new territory.
martha said:I thought they were only in Fez for a short time.
Let's see what u2.com tells us troughout June.
If they post something new every week for the rest of the month we may get 2 news all in all, maybe three before we're back into guessing again.
victor_f said:
‘It’s very stimulating for us to be working on material that isn’t so rooted in rock’n’roll,’ he explains. ‘The last two records for us were very much rock records made by a four piece band but what we’re doing here, this is kind of liberating, it’s about something else.’
But he’s not predicting what that something else might be: ‘It’s good not to try and bottle it. It’s nice for it to be about the music. When the process is finished we’ll see what we’ve got…’
Later in the afternoon, the string players have left and the attention is turned to a group of percussionists who have arrived at the studio. Eno is discussing with Larry how the beat he’s already laid down can complement that of the local players. Whatever comes of these Moroccan sessions, and those that preceded them in France, Adam agrees that they seem to be a conscious departure from All That You Can’t Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. ‘By the end of the last tour everyone thought that for us to come back with a ‘part two’ of the rock record would not be right.
victor_f said:
To date he estimates they’ve come up with ‘at least thirty or forty pieces’
AtomicBono said:Great news! I'm excited to hear they've recorded that much and that it's a departure from ATYCLB/HTDAAB. I love those two records (especially ATYCLB), but what I love about U2 is their ability to change. I would have been disappointed if they had come out with something too much like HTDAAB, just like I would have been disappointed if they made Pop part II, much as I love Pop.
Looser rhythmic structure... I hope Larry is coming up with more interesting beats! That is the one thing that has been rather lacking since Pop, I think. Most of Larry's beats have been rather dull.
Oh my God, I am really getting excited about this!!!victor_f said:
To date he estimates they’ve come up with ‘at least thirty or forty pieces’ and when the time is right, they’ve got the basis for the next record. ‘There’s definitely an album in there,’ he says. ‘If anything we might be short of one or two songs of a certain nature but I think we’ve got a record.’