Jocke's, Martin's and Sami's posts translated to English

[namokab]

I do wonder if the singles (and possibly the album) artwork for this album will be different textures/materials/backgrounds (black snakeskin for La belle) with the pink semi-transparent lower banner being a fixed element? It would tie in with the pink colour change on the main website banner and here on the forum.

I dreamt the album name again last night. (my first was tweeted to kent weeks ago, who said I was wrong!), and clearly my brain can't spell . It has a T in it, but doesn't begin with T: Någonstans i tid (Somewhere in time). Would love to know how many words in the title.

I also got some intuitive feeling that Tid could be in the title, but not even two forumits are enough to prove our theory.

[SirNoodle]

If the album title starts with a 'T', it must be 'tillbaka till framtiden', and then we'll have a flying grey horse with girl on the cover, hovering above a futurustic pinkish cityand all songs will have references to the back to the future trilogy, and some flashbacks from the tillbaka till samtiden album...

But I could be wrong

[stjärnor]

Jocke on the sound of the vocals in La Belle Epoque:

It's not an effect exactly, but a hard arranged vocal package.
It is 4 tracks.
Two heavily compressed, hard sung high leads (really ugly words, haha), and two dead 'robotic-like' dubs an octave below + a loud voice in the second half of verse 2.
Everything is sung in a hand held SM57.


* A SM57 is a microphone by Shure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shure_SM57

[.namnlös]

The most affordable and standard mic there is. Every musician should have some. I figured he'd done some tracking on the vox, now I know what exactly Technically that's double double tracking but I know what he means. Nice effect, and nice that it's not done by a computer also.

[Gästen]

Just a tiny detail, but "fult ord" means "ugly word," not "cool words" .

[stjärnor]

Thanks, gästen. Not quite sure how I managed that!

[stjärnor]

A forum member wonders why music reviewers rarely talk about the song construction, the instruments used, Jocke's voice, etc. Jocke replies:

Good insight.
It has been this way since Isola.
Even if we don't want to or don't care to read all the reviews, you end up seeing most of them in the shops, if they hadn't been mentioned by the record company, family, friends and aquaintances.
There is maybe a very simple answer to this question.
There is a great time pressure to write a text (review) on so few listenings.
That I fully understand and respect.
But many don't have sufficient knowledge about music on a slightly more theoretical and song writing technique level to be able to write about it.
And I also suspect that to discuss the music that is heard instead of the band or artists share price on the credability-market is often judged as not interesting for their readers.
I don't think a reviewer needs to have mastered music theory.
But we should ask that they distinguish between verse, chorus and thrusts.
Somewhere it was written about the 999 chorus.
Ok, I think.
Also, nowadays it is so usual to see the 'ahh' or 'ohh chorus' called the '999 chorus' in Sweden, or it is maybe even a simplification.

[stjärnor]

A forum member has tried to work out the chord for La Belle Epoque, their version is:

Verse:
F#m, E, Bm, D, E
Chorus:
A, D, E, F#m, D, F#m
A, D, E, F#m, D.... F#m
Bridge:
F#m/C#, E/B, C#m/G#, A
F#m/B, E/C#, D, E

Perhaps...

Jocke replies:


Bridge: D, E sus4, C#m (med G# in the bass), Aadd9, Bm, C#m, D, E sus4.

[Gästen]

*I Can't remember if 'thrust' or 'stab' is the correct musical term. nämnlös, can you confirm?

The word you're looking for is bridge, or middle eight .

[stjärnor]

Tack, igen Gästen! I shall update my post.

[DanielOlin]

...Even if we don't want to or don't care to read all the reviews, you end up seeing most of them in the shops..

I would humbly like to point out that the Swedish term "få på köpet" doesn't literally mean "in the shops" or anything like that. In this case it means "also" or "you get it anyway".
The translation is rather: "Even if we don't want to or don't care to read all reviews, you get the most noticeable ones anyway through reports from the record company, family, friends and aquaintances".

[.namnlös]

A forum member has tried to work out the chord for La Belle Epoque, their version is:



Jocke replies:


Bridge: D, E sus4, C#m (med G# in the bass), Aadd9, Bm, C#m, D, E sus4.

Good lad! I'll have a go at that!

[.namnlös]

The word you're looking for is bridge, or middle eight .

Yeah the stab thing was a type of note/sound we were talking about a while back. Turns out it's quite fun to play. Kent songs are always so well put together!

[stjärnor]

I would humbly like to point out that the Swedish term "få på köpet" doesn't literally mean "in the shops" or anything like that. In this case it means "also" or "you get it anyway".
The translation is rather: "Even if we don't want to or don't care to read all reviews, you get the most noticeable ones anyway through reports from the record company, family, friends and aquaintances".

Thanks Daniel, much appreciated. It reads much better now! Another little phrase I shall have to try and remember.

[stjärnor]

In a thread about collaborations on the new album, Erik Hassle is listed as contributing backing vocals on La Belle Epoque, Jocke explains where Erik can be heard:

Erik takes the highest of the ahh-voices which are in the last chorus.
It can easily be heard.
Otherwise the ahh-chorus consists of 3 voices from me in 4 channels.
Two in a low octave, one in a high and one upperpart.
In chorus 1 & 2 Erik dubs my vocals in the midrange.
But mine is sung fairly 'loosely'. That is to say I don't follow the lead melody exactly in every voice so they grow between harmony and voice to get a soft and nice little warped movement.
The distortion in the verse which was mentioned by the sound police comes from one of the high lead takes. From hard compression and the handheld SM57. (microphone)
Perhaps it's the bears scraping the puff filter, haha.*
But I love the feeling in the takes of the verses which is actually from pre-production, or 'demos' which some might say, even if they were much more complete than a normal demo.

*the puff filter, or pop filter is the black circular mesh you often see sitting in front of a microphone. Read more about them at wiki.