Alain Clark picked up the making of his latest album, Sunday Afternoon is very different than its predecessor, which was shot in Los Angeles, california. In a conversation with NU.nl it tells the singer that the album at home, it has been concluded with a candle light and a glass of wine.
“Sunday Afternoon, it is really at home on the couch, occur,” explained Clark about the origins of his new album. “I was preparing to go to a concert in the city centre and I thought it would be fun to have a little bit of jam in there.”
now, as The singer tells it, the idea is to have a play, but nowadays less and less with each other and talking. To the track Sunday Afternoon was born out of the idea to have a conversation with a stranger on a park bench in a park.
in The process of making his new album, for which Clark does not differ by more than the run-up to its past record of Bad Therapy. “I was just in the Americas was signed and was to go to Los Angeles and moved on. I had to raise the bar for myself high, and a variety of conditions. It was also the policy of the company involved, and that gave me a lot of headaches. I’m still proud of that album, but to make it was with a deep breath, and a lot of sweat, a look. It was a long and arduous process.”
“I was in Los Angeles to raise the bar for myself too high and in all sorts of conditions”
Alain Clark didn’t get off the couch until I found a song that had to be completed’
when this experience is realized, Clark is above all that, he wants to write from a flow. “It felt like a huge relief, and reminded me what it feels like to be angry, happy, or loving feelings right away in a song in order to put on. I wanted to see it through.”
“You can just feel something, express it without it being a hit, it needs to be. I had to make myself agree to just to be able to write and it is not my job to judge before I have all the songs had been completed. I couldn’t get off the couch until I found a song that had been finished,” he says of his process.
“I just let the ideas flow instead of having it as a food, everything is under the magnifying glass took. For example, things are much easier, and there have been other things, too. All of the songs are on my couch with a candle, and sometimes a good glass of wine.”
Clark took on all of the songs are in the first instance, only with a guitar on his phone. He wanted to make in this process is to honor the production of the final product. “We have a group formed and all of the songs were recorded live. I have played with them before, and ten minutes later we were a three, or a maximum of four takes. My heart is singing with happiness, as if it could make music as well. I didn’t have hours and hours to think about it, a kick or a high hat, but I did just to express themselves.”
” I’ve got these songs and no pyrotechnics needed
Clark, stressed that he and his previous records are also from his own feelings, he that there would always be a record for radiohits early in the morning. “That I have missed. I have all of these songs, feel free to have my own guitar, not that I’m a bass player, or fireworks to do that.”
That is not to say, however, that the singer no longer has the ambition to be on the radio too. “It’s not as if I am in radio and now its back and I turned away. However, the desire to be on the radio may not be at the expense of what I am musically, now.”
Alan Clark – Sunday Afternoon