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Orpheus.

A mythical character

Melancholic lover and transgressive musician.

The only deadly that wandered through the underworld

and thanks to the power and charm of his music

I came back to life.

This song is called "Orfeo".

Scott Walker composed it and interpreted in 1967.

That's how Scott Walker sounds in 2006.

Orpheus has returned from the underworld.

What has happened in this long journey?

Who is this man?

SCOTT WALKER The man of the XXX century

There was a generalized idea of ​​him:

That inclination to Garbo isolation,

the fact that always you will be photographed with a scarf

and dark glasses and it seems to avoid get attention.

I think it has a way to disappear.

If you want to be seen, you can see it.

I do not think he wants to be seen.

I do not think I even had the right temperament

to be the pop star that everyone expected it to be.

Vague journalists used to say: "It sounds like Scott Walker"

of all the singers with some vibrato and reverb

and hum with soft voice.

Because his voice is unique.

They said he had a fish and chips in London,

who was an interior decorator ...

They said "Scott Walker" like someone who drops a name,

they did not know the implications.

The truth is that yes very little of him.

I do not even know what it looks like.

He became a hermit, What was of him?

How is it? Still so cute?

There are many things that you do not know about Scott Walker,

and I'm not talking about his private life. There is a lot of mystery in his music.

How's that guy? he became Scott Walker,

how it happened to belong to a group of 60

to be one of the composers and more amazing musicians

at the end of the 60s and in the 70s and 80s.

I do not know anything.

Who knows something about Scott Walker?

When I was 14 15 years old They were a success.

I was not a collector, but a fan anyone.

This is interesting.

They are rare items.

What do we have here?

Principles of the ...

This letter is from November 1958,

of the first fan club by Scott Engel.

He must have been about 14 years old.

This is Scott, signed by l

and maybe even typed by l.

I sent it to one of the members from his fan club, Elaine,

to Honolul . I received it in 1958.

A 10 inch vinyl.

Start making models

with 13 14 years old. I think encouraged by his mother.

Scott did them, Scott Engel at the time,

before being a Brother Walker.

Noel Scott Engel

I was born in Hamilton, Ohio,

in 1943.

He achieved fame as Scott Walker,

a third part of the Walker Brothers.

They were not brothers and none was called Walker.

Sometimes by will or by destiny, I finish

with the adolescent idol that he himself had been

and directed his steps to outer limits.

He has not gone on stage

in almost 30 years

and has never let in to the cameras in the study.

Until today.

The image that Scott has in his head

It's the sound of a guy

hitting the bar of a bar with a glass.

Only because it has a hermit's life

They say a lot of nonsense.

For example: "Now he sits in the pubs"

"to watch the darts play".

What is not wrong, I find it interesting.

Or: "He has signed up to a painting course. "

I had heard those stories that usually count

of the myths,

and I did not know what to expect.

Hi Scott.

- How are you? - Well thanks.

The disk he made with us It was called We love life.

Nobody bought it.

Here we are.

Cool.

I went to meet him at his manager's house

and I was sitting there with a baseball cap.

That surprised me.

The visor of the cap I was lying forward

so that I could only see his mouth

We started talking,

I played some music

and I was encouraged that according to the conversation was progressing

I was raising the visor and after about 35 minutes

We established visual contact.

It is very good.

We love it, we keep it.

Ok, now we go with the next piece.

The cap became for m in an indicator

of how comfortable that he felt in a situation,

because when finally we recorded the disc

even got to take off the cap.

I knew things were going well.

We have been working for a few weeks, so to begin with

there are some holes in the story line ...

The editor will ask me I asked you this and that,

we go with the boring first.

Voucher.

And we passed to interesting questions.

"You belonged to the Communist Party?"

I would like to start with the days of Sunset Strip.

At first the Walker Brothers There were two: Scott and John.

I think originally the battery It was not Gary Walker, it was Tiny.

Tiny Rogers to the battery,

a little music to dance together,

with "Cottonfields," the Walker Brothers.

First appearance of the Walker Brothers on TV

If John could not sing he did it

because he was the bassist.

They were the beginnings of the disco era,

the halls of Hollywood

they were always crowded,

of boat in boat, seven nights a week.

The line went around the building weekends.

And the big stars came in of cinema, like Lana Turner.

That happened every night,

It was fantastic.

The atmosphere was incredible, there were four great clubs

and all crammed.

We went to Whiskey-a-Go-Go that opened on The Strip,

we used to play there weekends,

It was a great time.

Everything became more serious when I started to sing with the Walker Brothers.

I was not the main vocalist,

It was John. But they wanted to do

a ballad, "Love her",

and we exchanged the papers because they wanted a more serious voice,

It was accidental.

Gary played with The Standells

at the Peppermint Lounge

and decided to come to England

with P.J. Proby.

It was a mistake, as was proven

because I came back,

but I had seen the environment here and one night he told us:

"Would you be interested to come?"

I had a funder and everything ready.

I said of course.

I've always been interested the European cinema.

When I arrived there was talk of American cinema,

I was the boring one on duty.

When I went to live in Scandinavia

I thought you would be interested in talking about Bergman and Dreyer.

But they were not,

they just wanted to see Woody Allen movies.

When we came, in our first recording,

I met John Franz.

He was the producer of Dusty Springfield here.

John and me

we were very worried for the rhythm,

we did not know if the British rhythm in those days ...

We only knew that rope and metal would be fine.

John told us:

"I'm going to put in good people."

We arrived at the studio and they were some fantastic guitarists.

Then it was to sew and sing.

After the Beatles and the Stones we are the following

The Walker Brothers ... "Thanks for another number 1"

It will be sincere, it drove me crazy.

First, the voice resonated with you, but also

He was beautiful.

Not only this quinceañera I was crazy about him,

but all the quinceañeras of the country.

I went on tour with them, with the Walker Brothers.

It was an experience both divine and stormy.

I patted my head

and I do not like it give me pat on the head.

People did not come to see you, but to shout, and more and more loud,

you could sing anything,

they did not hear you

We do not take advantage of that, There were many people that I know.

It was crazy, we went on stage

and only one or two minutes later

the concert was over

because they swooped,

people pushed and overwhelmed,

that was it.

He told me that once in Dubl n they gave a concert

like The Walkers.

At the exit they got into the car and the public, the kids,

They overturned the car with the three inside.

And added: "There was no seatbelts".

So they probably ended crushed against the ceiling.

He would rescue them from the Irish police.

The Irish Police he took care of us,

He turned the van around.

There were thousands of people hitting it.

We were afraid, We did not know if we would leave.

It's for the money, that's what pop is for ...

Pop means "money." Pop back reads "money".

Pop backwards reads "pop".

I do it for different reasons, but not for money.

Money does not matter to me, It sounds ridiculous but it's true.

I do it only for being creative,

I can make records,

produce discs,

compose music.

I started composing the B faces of the Walker Brothers

because our m nagers they said that it had to be edited,

someone had to do it and so I started.

I left feeling more secure

and also had that enormous force at my disposal,

my imagination could fly.

He's very 60, he's so sixties,

so much social realism

like a movie black and white of the 60

that if it were British it would be of social realism by Ken Loach,

if it were American It would be Tennesee Williams.

I'll tell you how it was for me, because I've seen Ealing comedies,

to Margaret Rutherford ...

What is the British nation? When he wake up!

Terry Thomas ...

What a show!

Bad!

And those people.

When I arrived here I thought: "It's not going to be the same."

We arrived in the harsh winter

and those characters were around here,

it was exactly as in the movies, incredible.

The winter was raw, there was no room,

only in closed circles once you entered them.

What people have forgotten with time is that the sound

of the Phillips discs

said so much of England in the 60s as "Day Tripper".

Those discs They fit with the landscape.

There is that gothic and beautiful shine

on the disks of the Walker Brothers.

This is interesting.

The fabulous Walker Brothers in Granada,

I think he's in Tooting, in London.

The interesting thing is that

when the tour started

the Walker Brothers they were the main group,

but the tour lasted several months

and Jimmy Hendrix, that started in the last positions,

I did not finish the tour officially as head of list,

but I do in reality.

I was at the top.

Here we are reaching the end of his career, to be honest.

They are beginning to decline.

We all disintegrated our way.

I think it happened from of the second album,

Things got difficult.

The sadness of the Walker Brothers

Scott ... The public scares you

Why I loved Scott

"It bores me all this ..."

The hell of the Walker Brothers

Should Scott go?

Tired of being a Walker Brother

"Scott scares me"

They separate

Arranger of Scott solos 1967-70

I had heard about Scott and the Walker Brothers

but I had not heard them.

My name was Johnny Franz.

It was the manager of the Phillips record company.

And he told me: "Scott Walker will do some things alone "

"and I want you to work with him".

He arrived at Johnny's office waiting to find me

Johnny at the piano and Scott singing or playing something,

but no.

I found a young man sitting on the floor

with legs extended, with a guitar

and sheets of paper written for the carpet.

And tearing the guitar and humming a little.

From time to time he stopped and said:

"Here I hear Sibelius",

or "here I hear Delius" or "here I hear ..."

All classical composers of which he was so proud.

And in a way he wanted that sound in the arrangements.

We thought it was different, we did not realize

that was a kind of outpost,

as the vanguard, what was to come.

From the earliest times,

"Montague Terrace" was

one of the compositions more interesting

And it's in the first album.

I think that's where it starts to perceive the potential

Scott as a composer, It's a special song.

The lyrics were so ...

The images They were so strong and graphic ...

Occasionally I was surprised by some things:

"Is that allowed?"

Scott triumphs

I should listen to these things more.

Are you sure I did that?

Of course.

It's as if I heard it for the first time.

It's been so long

I do not think today I could do better.

Still in your head?

"Montague Terrace" still in your head?

30 years have really passed

since you heard that song?

Yes.

Since he left.

Someone touches her or listen to it on the radio

and you remember.

But even today when they send me something digitally remastered

who are taking out so that I gave them my approval,

It is very kind of you, I can not do it.

It's amazing.

My God.

Is not it incredible?

The truth is, no, it's 1968.

I used to go out with a girl that had come out with l

and he was passionate about his music.

His records were still there in the house.

She put them a lot and although at first it pissed me off

I ended up loving his voice.

I thought: "He has a sensational voice."

They considered him a melodic singer,

but it was much more ...

It was not like Perry Como,

or Jack Jones or Matt Monro.

It was more ...

It was not Las Vegas type,

but more Parisian or "Left Bank".

In that television series, I think of the BBC,

surely they thought they had hired a Jack Jones,

with this sound.

Scott appeared with his damned ballads,

Refusing to sing their successes.

After six chapters in 1969 ...

Thank you,

Goodnight.

The BBC canceled the program.

Last year I had the pleasure to record some songs

of the best singer-songwriter ...

Only these images are preserved.

Mr. Jacques Brel.

Thank you.

This song is about a story of sadomasochistic love.

It's a curious story, but I'm going to tell it.

We went to the inauguration of the Playboy club.

Welcome to the Playboy club.

Your invitation, please?

I was there with Gary, drinking. We drank a lot those days.

They opened on Park Lane, they were all

Soon we started to flirt with the girls.

I met a German girl

and we went to his house.

She drank a lot. I think he drank Pernod.

He put Jacques Brel, Of course he translated it for me.

All that night.

He thought: "This is wonderful."

And, an incredible coincidence, the next week

I went to see Andrew Oldham,

I used to go up to chat with him and drink Black Russians

and those things in the afternoon.

I said: "He heard a guy incredible the other night ... "

And he told me: "It's funny that you say it, because I have a model "

"from a certain Eric Blau who has recorded from "

"of their translated songs".

I put them on and he was a terrible uncle at the piano

and I said: "I'll take it."

And I took it and I took it running

and I changed, completely changed everything.

Many people quote to Brel among his influences

but I think subliminally they refer to Scott.

Brel was flamenco, let's say that he drooled when singing,

I was sweating while Scott he took his songs

and the cant

as a Greek god.

Many people wander with Brel, but the most interesting

of his albums in Phillips

they are the letters of Scott.

I was emerging as a composer and there are great songs.

Four albums in three years.

"Middle of the Road" standards, of Bacharach and Mancini

appear next to Brel songs

about gonorrhea and death.

But more and more the albums are being populated

of letters by Scott himself.

The next song is mine. It's a kind of reflection

about my adolescence.

It came from the "beatnik era" in the USA,

They called her "Era Beatnik".

I read Jack Kerouac Indagu in progressive jazz

they kicked me out of the schools and I hitchhiked in the USA,

I met wonderful people,

ef meras relations that were the best in my life

and this song is about that.

At first, almost unintentionally, the albums were numbers one.

In the third album, the composition of Scott

I had taken the lead and in the second half of 1969,

write in full

what will be his masterpiece of that period,

"Scott 4"

On the back cover of the LP write only one appointment

by Albert Camus ...

"The work of man it is but a slow road "

"towards rediscovery of the rodeos of art, "

"Those two or three magnificent and simple images "

"in whose presence He opened his heart for the first time. "

Three years before the recording of "Scott 4",

Scott did the following statements ...

"I will die to get this out, I'm serious".

"I've never settled for less."

"If it does not work, leave".

Inexplicably "Scott 4" He fell off the lists.

Soon it was erased and he fell into darkness.

I do not understand how Scott 3 I got to number three

and then Scott 4 almost disappeared in just one year.

They are similar discs, there are no composition mistakes,

Why the public I did not understand it like that?

I do not know.

I have a theory, If someone is interested,

it was written mostly in 3 by 4

and I think he did not hook anyone.

When the fourth album appeared people thought:

"This one I jump."

When I work on something, even today,

I always round my head

the idea that people you will not like it,

so I'm not disappointed, I'm disappointed more if I do not get something out.

Scott was a little displaced

for the new wave of British rock bands

of the late 60s,

early 70's King Crimson appeared,

Emerson, Lake and Palmer,

And it is...

Perd n

All the world

I was losing my ass with that hippy garbage,

because peace and love

it's an ideal, not a fashion

and that's why it disappeared very soon.

When everyone I was going to San Francisco,

He delved in the dark psyche of man.

Tour of Scott ... the audience listens quietly

Scott Walker hides in a world of pessimism

"I'm one of those people that is never happy with anything "

Scott ... "Drunk me?"

"I want to be alone", says Scott

"I want to get away from pop"

They say it's not gold everything that glitters

Before his fame fades

a hard fact we want to sentence ...

They say that love and hate They are very close.

He does not think in the problems of his fans

as long as he can live his life.

He has no time to lose.

It has not reappeared.

It will be that the king Have you lost your crown?

Has the legend been lying down?

Walker, walker of long routes,

vid talker of Brel and Sartre,

do not underestimate our strength, the end is near,

You are out of the way.

Your reign is over, adi s, Scott!

Afr ntalo, t o, it's over.

14 former Scott Walker fans.

Sometimes I asked myself: "Why was he gone?"

It seemed to me that underlies something good.

John Franz was a good friend of mine and I said:

"Look, give them the couple of albums they want "

"and later we'll take another one".

That's what he said. Of course we did not.

So it was getting worse,

sinking,

and the same thing happened on CBS.

CBS gave me to understand that there

I would write again, but it was not like that either.

They wanted to beat me to a producer, very good people, but ...

So I finished that, I was just concluding contracts.

The loss of support of public and discogrÃfica

provoked a series of albums without inspiration

that to day of today it does not allow them to be reissued.

Scott Walker singer it still existed,

complying with the formalities and singing songs of others.

Scott Walker writer, He went into exile.

In 1974 75

Scott was not

old fashioned

I simply was not in anyone's mind.

The important thing was the cach , they said: "My mother listens to Scott Walker."

In 1975 the Walker Brothers they meet and record a disc.

Without regrets, without making a box, without expectations

Far from the gaudy fans and the celebrity

the forgotten legends they place their last single

in the British top-ten with Tom Rush's song

"No regrets."

The charms "Middle of the Road"

they do very little for relaunching his career,

but without his success, what happened after

It would have been impossible.

With his record label about to close

the Walker Brothers They have one last chance.

In 1978, with punk on the waves

and the "Winter of Discontent" on the horizon

they begin to record what would be his last album ... "Nite Flights".

I read what you told the boys:

"Be self-indulgent,"

"It's the last chance."

They were songs What have you expected to write?

Or was the date, Something in the environment?

It was something in the environment but it was a moment

that I really said that, exactly what you said,

"the company is closing, the company is closed, "

"Let's go there, Write what you want. "

Then everything came back to me, I started thinking:

"I can write. I can do it again. "

Baby, it's slow.

When the lights go down

There is nothing to do, no.

Tonight is instructing through the Holy Spirit,

through the dark waterfalls,

screaming ... "Mambos,"

"kill me, kill me, kill me."

If I open the door abruptly

you will die in your dreams.

If I open the door abruptly,

I open the door abruptly ...

I will shudder,

I will shudder

I will shudder.

The first success I assimilated consciously it was Nite Flights.

With the first four songs from Nite Flights arrived in Montreux

where I was working with David at that time, saying:

"God, you have to listen to this, It has a lot of future, really. "

There was a union, it was a kind of marriage

between a sensitivity very different from pop music,

what came of orchestral music

or of experimental music or electronic,

and the idea of ​​pop music, although the result

It's a far cry from pop music.

What I really like of its letters is the form

in which you can draw a picture with what he says.

I have no idea what he sings about, I've never bothered to find out

And I do not care.

I like to catch the songs who sings and do things with them,

I interpret them my way entering the images.

I have to say It's humiliating to hear this.

Really.

You think: "We have not advanced anything."

I keep listening to groups that sound like Roxy Music

and Talking Heads. They have not gone any further,

It's a tragedy, really.

I was small to remember, he knew his songs

but I think I knew, like many people, Scott

through punk, curiously.

Because the punk generation, Julian Cope or Echo and the Bunnymen,

they worshiped Scott Walker, so we think:

"Who is this guy? Why do you worship him? "

"Why this old Californian Do our punk heroes revere it? "

The first disc that we got my friends and me

It was a compilation by Julian Cope, of your favorite Scott songs.

Everything made sense.

It had a totally gray cover, enigmatic,

a completely gray card.

It was Scott's songs favorite of Julian.

Julian Cope was in the Liverpool group

The Teardrop Explodes and is now a prolific composer and singer

and expert in stone circles European

Since he does not like to go out before the cameras

he sent us a letter explaining ...

"My reason for taking out "Fire escape in the sky"

"It was that he had bought his LP in Liverpool and Birmingham "

"and he had given them to friends and whoever wants to hear them. "

"I felt that Scott was lost"

"as far as culture was concerned by including "

"That slop" Middle of the Road " until "Scott 3".

"My gray post-punk design without photographs "

"it allowed people to enjoy Scott without the idea "

"to be buying an icon "Middle of the Road" of the 60 ".

"I'm glad that they still There are those who remember "

"that the" LP Fire escape in the sky " the flood began. "

Let's be chronological.

Let's listen "Always coming back to you"

of Scott.

What really drove me to him was that someone recorded a cassette

of his solo albums, that were not available.

It must have been in the mid-1980s and I had a fever,

I was in bed complaining and it was very funny because ...

Do you know when you are a little feverish?

He thought: "Quiz I imagined that music. "

"I can not believe that really exists. "

Listen to Scott Walter and his English nationality adopted

assumed a very strong connection between your music and our lives

and our sense of uprooting

and melancholy.

Pop music was not what it seemed before listening to him.

Listen to Scott Walter It meant a kind of zero year.

You have beated me. That's it!

What artist, if it's not corny progressive rock,

would start a disc with a huge fucking gong?

Can I also put "Rosemary"?

There is a part in which it says:

"Ol a a miracles".

It's about a traveler whom she has kissed

and it smells like miracles and sighs colored glass.

I think the images They are incredible,

is beautiful.

Pretty psychedelic.

They said we were "Scott Walter."

- For example, with "Creep". - Yes.

When we record it the title was yours

and the producer he told us that it was a pity

and maybe Scott let us take it out

and his music became in a reference for us.

The bass is extraordinary.

That's fun, perdon.

Dragons, what a disgust.

The strings are very good.

I wanted him to influence in the last album of The Smiths.

Not on the ropes, but in the idea

of beauty inside the melancholy.

What projects a shadow it is the atonal background,

which is quite alienating.

It's almost existentialist, remember the darkness

that underlies romanticism.

That's. He always does it.

The voice, the first time I heard it an old boyfriend told me:

"Listen, this is the one Scott Walter. "

He put this song, "Boy child", and I stayed completely ...

It's authentic music and I have to try to do

something that at least entertains being so good.

Despite the low sales, Scott's contribution

to "Nite Flights" Generated enough interest

to make Virgin Records I made him an offer in 1979,

six years before that he recorded his next album.

It was one of the deals more shameful

I've seen jam s.

I work in a business that exploits the artist and the consumer

more or less equally.

It was an offer for the 12th album and I calculated, based

in the pace of Scott's work and in what I could produce

that he would probably have About 200 years

for when I released the 12th album.

I think he went to New Forest and rent a house

and one day he called me and said: "I have the songs."

"I'm ready".

I was at the top, he was still at the peak of his strength

having left a silence

six years among his albums.

The vision that I had aimed in only four songs

at Nite Flights It appeared in all its splendor.

You have spent a lot of time alone in these six years?

Interview on the radio with Alan Bands

Yes, quite.

I've been six years working on what I call

a silence that could reach me

without me forcing it.

It meant a lot to me that flowed to me

without struggling to get out, so I looked for an adequate climate

and time and perception They arrived at the same time.

I think it's a kind of kaleidoscopic process.

I do not know, I do not like it very much talk about the process

because I do not understand it at all.

When this album came I left m .

I'm a bit superstitious so I do not talk much about it.

I met him in a hotel in Shepherd's Bush.

"It will be the one with the baseball cap," I was told,

sitting in that restaurant of dim light,

chewing a match.

I was a little surprised for the amount of mystery

that there appeared and as I explained before,

he had reached the first disc without listening to any model

because there was not.

I knew that I would not go out a conventional album

because its elaboration it had not been anything conventional.

I was baffled,

"Why do you want me?" I was not known as a musician.

The first thing he said was: "This is not a funk session."

"I know your work, I think of clouds, "

"clouds of saxophone,"

"And I think mostly about Ligeti."

So we were drinking Chablis

a good Chablis at room temperature,

very good, Two bottles pretty fast.

While, they mounted the amplifier in the room where I played,

the guitarist I was in the control room.

I had never seen anything like it before.

During the recording to the guitarist he heard him play the melody

and Scott went crazy: "Who's playing?"

"Stop touching! I do not want to hear any melody "

"and I do not want anyone to hear it."

I kept Pete's stuff until the end. When you tell people

these banal things they happen again.

Someone takes a letter or laugh at this or that

and suddenly the song is in another place,

not where he should be.

During all the process for recording the album

the melody was a secret well kept.

As a producer or co-producer, if you want,

it is missed enough when you work.

It keeps all the elements much more scattered.

None of them stands out above the rest,

what he did not want in any case.

I'm not making fashion records.

You just pulled out a solo album,

Climate of Hunter.

I hate to use the word "come back" but, why have you chosen

this concrete moment to return?

Go back? I also do not use the word "come back",

I already think about the next album.

Are you happy doing this? You do not feel like

to sing again, you alone?

No, I'm not a singer of "I get up and sing".

I sing when they give the right circumstances

and more now.

You think that with this album you will have the same reception

What with the Walker Brothers?

No. I hope not.

We have the new single

and the Track 3 video, lets go see it.

Before, I used to write discs very fast.

I think he wrote my fourth disc

in two months.

I think.

And that is very fast.

I can be wrong, but I think it was like that.

That would not happen today.

There is always a rush,

one goes crazy,

but you can not force it because it does not work out

It has to be exactly what it is and you have to sit down to do it.

And they can spend years and nothing.

It's hard for everyone, Maybe I'm slow,

but for me it is very difficult.

I did not think immediately that the next year

we would do the second part.

I also did not expect to wait 10 years.

Our goal was very clear: Know our dolos.

We start from magazine for fans in the 80s

sending letters to the people we admired.

Each month, each publication, I sent him a letter

to the manager of Scott.

He had been at least 10 years section and without talking to the press.

It was a hermitage and therefore a legend.

It was a fantasy, a myth, something that almost did not exist.

And after five years writing them non-stop,

They said yes.

Four days before we said:

"It can not be, it is impossible".

But we met him.

The first question was: "After the failure of your last album, "

"What have you done in these 10 years?" And he replied: "Live."

"That is all".

It is a good answer.

Work in contracting.

The first time I saw I wanted to hire Scott.

I had heard he was thinking go back to the studio.

He thought: "It's worth discovering."

It was the interview more serene and sensible

of the world. Scott said:

"The only thing I will not do is sit down to record songs like churros. "

Fantastic

The Pet Shop Boys had achieved a success with Dusty Springfield

and I had the language to explain to my bosses

the meaning of all this.

The disc in perspective was Tilt, that came out two or three years later.

And I am very happy.

I would not have had explanation for se.

I know part of the recording of Tilt did it in Rak.

We did something there.

It was the set of more strange instruments ...

How will you make a record with timbales?

Orchestral percussion

Yes, it was very strange.

Scott Walker or his ghost wandered for the whole record.

Do not cross Nigel in the first recording session

from OK Computer with Scott Walker on a bike in South London?

I was excited only to see Scott Walker.

They told me that the album it was finished

and what awaited me in Metropolis

one night that week.

When I crossed the door

Pete came to meet me

and I wanted to ask what was it like,

but he told me: "Shut up, Scott is up watching."

I looked up and was on the balcony looking down.

And obviously I was very nervous for putting it for the first time.

It started to sound at full volume.

I had no idea what to do with that.

I turned around and said:

"We could put it in speakers smaller and lower? "

"Because it's costing me A little assimilate. "

I agreed.

But Scott stopped him and said: "Dave,"

"if you dont mind I prefer to hear it in the big ones, "

"Because when I finish an album, I have no intention "

"to hear him again. So I would like to remember it like that. "

I have not heard again Tilt from the minute I finished it.

I have not heard it again.

It happened all those years composing it,

I produced it, I sang it, I made the mixtures,

I produced it with my friend Pete, I sang it and made the mixes.

I do not want never listen to him again

It's a nightmare.

They are agon a.

He believes, although I disagree with that,

what to transmit a strong emotion in music

You have to feel it when doing it.

That is not true or people that touches Bruchner and Mahler

at night I would be lost with 30 years.

Three or four hours in the studio, and he himself is

for living it with such intensity and emotion.

Compose the strings for Scott I find it very annoying,

because you have to keep a note 16 measures

and keep doing it until getting the emotion.

But in the case of the musicians of rope is irritation.

One shared the recording with a slow extraction of teeth.

It puts musicians in trouble because he wants that intensity.

I would not dare to say

that sadism underlies the argument

of music, because I do not think it's that simple

But there are this type of abstract observations

of people in situations very uncomfortable.

Never forget that when he heard Tilt

I almost had a heart attack:

"What is this?"

And I realized that it was the first album of the 21st century.

Majestic metal music ... Scott Walker's first album

in 11 years it's a bombshell.

It was an incredible album,

it did not make any sense, It was fantastic to get lost,

few discs give that,

they make you lose you completely and have nothing to hold on to

because everything is new and everything is upside down.

Listen to the guitar. There is something strange about the guitar.

The chord you hear

is disturbed by something else.

I was wondering why the guitar sounded at the same time

tuned and out of tune.

How could it be?

I tried different things, thinking that maybe it was an effect,

but I did not find it.

And I thought: "It's a great idea." It's a detail, but it changes everything.

Goes in search of the border between chords and dissonances.

Everyone can play a chord and a dissonance,

but he takes a chord like this

and he keeps it 16 bars.

It's halfway there between chord and dissonance,

It contains four chords,

but when you touch it, it's not neither a chord nor a dissonance,

and if you play the missing note

It is completely different.

Work in the margin of the difference.

The strategy is that oscillation that goes forward and back

and the axis to achieve it is to carry to the musicians to no man's land

between the melody and harmony traditional,

and the chirps, avant-garde.

It is not classical music or jazz. It is not abstract,

there are still songs and a voice that sings,

there still being a letter inside

that does not clarify things, it confuses them even more.

In the photo that I have is alone in a large space

singing with all his strength, but there is no one around.

It has an almost grotesque face

who does it emotionally so strong.

Because when you do not hide

Behind nothing, such as fashion or rhythm,

there are many ways to hide, when you are there saying:

"This is me with my voice just as I am".

And when you put that voice in that kind of music

it's great. He is very Brave.

The voice is interesting, because sometimes I hate her.

I have a relationship love-hate with her,

It is beautiful and unpleasant at the same time.

When I heard Tilt for the first time I felt

a little nervous about him, It was weird,

I was embarrassed.

It's like an aging voice, but it's still pretty.

Somehow it sounds more dramatic and touching sometimes

because it sounds more vulnerable.

I hate Tilt. Completely.

I went to listen to the record

and I thought: "I'm just me?"

Everyone sitting there, reverent, and I thinking:

"This is bad". "It's horrifying".

In his career there is a before and one after Tilt.

People boast of being daring and ambitious and suddenly it appears

a disc that supposes what they fight for

and the things they say they are.

It made the people who passed or posed as avant-garde

it was old fashioned,

I was old.

When I think of Scott Walker I think of Elliot

or in Beckett or Joyce.

I also relate it with visual artists

as Francis Bacon, interior landscapes.

Deal with fragments, clues.

In the case of minor artists those influences are an imitation

they stay on the surface.

Here, he absorbs them completely.

I'm very intrigued what will he do next?

Although it would take another decade record the next album

the following years, to be Scott Walker,

it's busy

French director Leos Carax he orders the music

of his new film "Pola X".

It was a perfect union.

It is almost logical that you find certain complicity with Scott

because they are both some nonconformists in their field.

I enjoyed working with Leos Carax, but it was a continuous nightmare

because he is as slow as I am, so the process lasted for a year.

I had to interview with him again and again and I can only do

one thing at a time.

So it took about three years only staying with Leos

to make the soundtrack. I did not care, I like it.

How it stayed at the end, I have no idea.

Dancing, choreographer

I do not know what it is about.

I do not get it,

But I like it.

"... outside the hair grows, inside, the skin, "

"so the hair is out and the skin inside, "

"One likes the skin inside and the hair was ... "

I think there are two of my best songs.

She was not afraid, It was fantastic:

"I'm going to try, I'll take care of it." And it was great.

I was a piece of clay

and he molded me in his vision of music.

Sometimes it was frustrating

scream when I would have It seemed good to remain silent.

Or shut up when I thought that should give him more emotion.

I had to give

to enter an abstract style which I'm not used to

Can you hear it? You can not count, you have to listen to it

I do not remember that.

It was a fleeting vision of the new album,

It was quite intriguing.

Fall as he did almost exactly in the middle of the two albums.

It is a representation of your performance at that time

and now we know that was just a fleeting clue

of what was to come.

- You can take it. - You've done this before, Scott.

Who do you think about?

On April 28, 1945 Benito Mussolini was executed

by committee members of Italian national liberation.

Your lover, Claretta Petacci He wanted to die with him.

They were shot and taken away on a truck to Piazzale Loreto, Mil n,

to hang them together of the ankles

with the head two meters from the ground.

The crowd ridiculed them, vilipendi and riddled with bullets.

It happened to me when I was very little,

I would have five or six years, My aunt took me to the movies.

Before the movie started in the US they used to post news.

They used to be things from the past, Second World War and postwar,

and of course they put those two bodies hanging,

bleeding out, It was quite shocking,

I found it quite impressive, and I asked,

but nobody wanted to explain it to me, and every time he went back to the cinema

they put those images and they stayed inside me.

Percussionist

OK, leave it.

You have to give it more ...

You know?

Because if you wait too long among the pu etazos ...

It's not very fast, but it has to be more varied,

so

Voucher.

Yes.

I knew you would like it.

Great, cool.

It is very good. We are going to listen to him again.

Come and listen to it, it's great. Come.

The breasts still weigh.

The legs fall long and stretched.

The upper lip It has fallen short.

Teeth They are still small.

The eyes are green.

The long black hair.

It continues to survive.

It continues to survive.

You do not have to take them the verbatim,

sometimes a political idea or known

it's a springboard to the other side, to another world,

as it happens in this case.

At the end

a personal message of oneself of some kind.

In the last instance, Your work is t .

In my world, everything, because I have a very nightmarish imagination,

I have had many nightmares always,

everything in my life is great,

It is very disproportionate.

It's a big thimble, Do you know the trile game?

Well, big.

I have understood.

That is what it is.

The drift what's wrong is that he has almost no arrangements.

There are textures, as in the song "Cue",

but they are big blocks of sound,

the ropes make a big block of noise, or there are noises,

but not fixes and that is what I try.

The fullness does not disappear, it is used when it is required,

that's why for certain things you need an army of ropes,

because if you use less you would not have that effect.

The night before the recording of strings no pegu eye

and I doubt he would sleep.

It was the most demanding work I've never done

There is a lot of pressure in those recordings.

It costs a fortune: You have 36 people there

and one day to have it ready.

From the face of the musicians it was deduced

that were so unsafe of the project as I

the first time who entered the study.

You tell them they have to sound

as bombers at 80 km approaching slowly and understand

that when they are really close they have to touch the strings

more violently than ever.

I was surprised by someone who has the reputation of being

very thoughtful and think a lot and for a long time

every creative movement

how fast it reacted to the way you play,

suggested alternative ways

or on the contrary, he said:

"It's fine, let's move on."

Your instant skill to filter the sound:

"I want this." Is it okay? Yes, go ahead. "

Or, if something is not right, deepen what is not right

and take it forward.

The sound that comes out of the studio, after the recording,

it's surprisingly

nice and fun

It would not be said.

No, we would die if we were in that mood

all day, and of course in everything There is a good dose of humor.

If everything was gothic style It would be very boring.

It's easy to imagine in the current top-ten.

I like to work with artists like Scott,

You have to interpret many things.

Sometimes he tells you: "I like how that sounds."

If you take it at face value It can give you a bad result.

You ask yourself: "What do you mean?"

If you want seagulls you can use the guitar,

but it can get to tell you: "I want a donkey."

The sound of the donkey occupied a large part of my time last year,

the search for the proper mule.

It sounds crazy, but it works.

Why do the recording? with studio sound?

Because this has references very specific to the world.

It is very crude.

As I move forward, everything gets raw.

What Pete and I do It is polishing the sound.

We have reached a point

in which we are fairly well-off in a sound that is our

and with which our people it is identified

We just continue, like Beckett,

tuning and tweaking things.

Perfecting all the songs I have become...

There is less personality, with the passage of the years,

in the singing.

In the last instance,

It's a man singing,

there are no soul inflections.

It is not that before I did many, but now there is not.

I want to be a man singing, when to show emotion

be real emotion.

Sometimes a bar tono voice reassure people,

has that effect, stop listening

what you are hearing, so if the voice

increases with the letter, dizzily,

It will be much more effective there.

One is very lucky if he goes through life singing,

It's better than other things,

but it is a genuine ghost that I will not overcome

and I want to do it only once or twice if I can,

I need to get it at all.

I have failed many times but I try.

Nostrils Covered with black cocaine

Nobody puts you a match in the skin.

There's no imbecile, there is no child,

far away, to many miles.

The needle does not go through the glove.

Hunger is a very tall tower.

A building alone at night.

Jesse, are you listening?

Project your ruins in shadows

Under the moonlight of Memphis.

Jesse, are you listening?

There is space on Tilt,

but there are more spaces for silence,

so that the language emerges.

That's why the lyrics are important,

because you have to feel the phenomenon of words

practically leaving the silence.

Alive.

I'm the only one who has been alive

I'm the only one who has been alive

I'm the only one who has been alive

I envy people who does not know Scott

and I think: "Cabrones with luck".

"They have a huge world waiting for them and it's going to be wonderful. "

And at the same time I want to say:

"Watch out, you did not spend too much time there, "

"It's very dangerous, I know,"

"I've spent a lot of time listening to Scott Walker "

"and the person has not made me happiest in the world. "

He is a poet and composer of the unconscious

and if someone wants to find you a logic to their work,

it would be the logic of a dream world.

There is nobody else doing what he does

and I think the feeling that produces listen

your current job still has no name.

It is a comfortable position. I do not want to give it a name,

is a feeling.

I was recently in Par s giving some interviews

and at least Three interviewers told me:

"There are no songs anymore."

"We do not know what they are, but they are not songs. "

Said: "I always think of songs."

If they were not songs, Did they have an idea of ​​what they were?

No. They said: "You're only there."

And I felt: "No, not again."

It's like an intriguing explorer or something like that.

Someone who goes to a part of the world to which nobody has gone yet.

That part of the world it can be inh spita

or be full of wild animals,

probably you would not want to live there,

but admire to someone who is prepared

to follow the path up there, nail a flag and say:

"Look, here you can get there."

In my opinion, it should be recognized as one of our best

not only composers, but also poets.

His lyrics are incomparable.

I find it surprising that you continue to see

as a marginal figure. It's true, it's not very prolific,

but the quality of their work It is extraordinary.

You think if Scott 4 it would have been a sales success

you would have arrived to Tilt and The Drift?

I would have arrived earlier, I would have arrived there much sooner,

because I would have continued,

instead of opening a parentheses almost 20 years old.

I should also add

I'm not blaming Nobody for it.

It's my bad faith and I've been paying for it

since then, for me.

It is a serious question

because they depend on me, all those years wasted.

My dilemma now is to try on the next disc

go with less strength, like a bike ride

or let my imagination fly as usual

and forget everything completely.

He'll know when he starts to record the next disc.

This morning in my room.

A small swallow I was trapped.

Vol , desperate,

until he fell, exhausted, in my bed.

He picked it up without frightening her.

Open the window

Then I opened my hand.

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