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1994, Music View
MUSIC VIEW SHOW 220
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I'm Colin Murphy and this week on Music View, Cranes reveal how their latest album was almost a double, in the feature interview . . .
Alison: At the same time as writing songs for the album, Jim was writing some other music
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All this and more in the next half hour on College Radio's weekly alternative talk show, Music View . . .
Portsmouth, England sister/brother duo Alison and Jim Shaw have garnered much attention since they released their first cassette album Fuse under the name Cranes. Alison's girlish vocals set to their passionate, dark swirling music further developed on the album Self-Non-Self and four E.P.'s until they had a major breakthrough. Their album Wings of Joy hit the charts and found them a new audience which included The Cure's Robert Smith. Cranes were then invited to open for The Cure's world tour, and after touring, they went back to the studio to record their latest biscuit, Loved. Alison revealed how their hectic pace affected the approach to their latest, in part one of the feature interview . . .
Alison: Looking back at it now I can kind of see that they're sort of about how we were feeling at that point. And I think because for the last couple of years, everything followed on so quickly, we didn't really have time to stop and think where we were. And suddenly when Jim and I started to record this record, I did feel a bit kind of disorientated, sort of like - "Whoa! - What are we doing? How did we . . . ?" - so there is sort of a sense of that in some of the songs.
Song: "Lilies" 24//3:40 cf
Cranes with "Lilies" from their latest album Loved, and we'll be talking with the Cranes some more, later in the show . . .
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Now for part two of our feature interview with the Cranes. Multi-instrumentalist Jim Shaw, and sister singer Alison's latest release as the Cranes sees them leaving their goth sound behind for a more sweeping and beautifully chilling soundscape. Loved is even more textural with the absence of piano replaced by the xylophone, oboe and violin. Remixes of three songs by Flood and Michael Bauer are presented at the end of the album for an even greater array of moods. The album was, in fact, supposed to be a double, but was seperated into Loved and The Flies. Alison revealed how they came up with The Flies . . .
Alison: We were just in the studio and at the same time as writing songs for the album, Jim was writing some other music which has got lots of strings and samples. It's very sort of orchestra. Well, I mean, I think it's very original music. It's got a strong sense of drama in it. And I was listening to it one day and i wasn't sure what to do with it and i just thought of a few lines from a play that I'd just read. The play is called "The Flies" and it's a Sartre play. And I just kind of repeated some of the lines over the music and it seemed to work quite well. So eventually we ended up with a 40 minute piece of music and I narrated some excerpts for the play.
Song: "Rêverie" 39//3:53 cf
Cranes with "Rêverie" from their latest album Loved, and that brings another weekly broadcast of Music View to a close. My special thanks to Cranes, Towa Tei, 777 and Jack Rabid. Next week Mudhoney give the feature interview, plus we'll be talking with Ivy and Poster Children. Until then, I'm Colin Murphy, writer and producer of Music View, a presentation of X Communications.
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MUSIC VIEW #220 DAILIES
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After the success of their album Wings of Joy which won them the opening slot for The Cure tour, the Cranes have followed up with Loved. In typical Cranes fashion, the songs play with opposites such as dark and light, noisy and quiet, but this time have more stripped down instrumentation. Singer Alison Shaw revealed another new approach the band took, when talking to Music View . . .
Alison: I think I wanted to focus a bit more on the words this time. And we wanted the songs to be a bit more definite and defined kind of thing. And I think some of the songs are a bit more storylike rather than . . . a bit sort of less abstracty kind of thing.
That's Alison Shaw of Cranes . . .
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Aside from releasing a new album, Loved, England's nineties goth act, Cranes, have written music for an English road movie called Scarborough Ahoy! which won an English film award. Singer Alison Shaw revealed the differences she and her fellow bandmember brother Jim Shaw encountered in making a soundtrack, when talking to Music View . . .
Alison: I think Jim was a bit suprised because we've often talked about doing film music and Jim had sort of an idea of like rolling landscapes and drifting music. But you have to be much more precise and everything has to be timed perfectly. Also the director has a lot of input and she ended up choosing things. This was very much a three-way collaboration.
That's Alison Shaw of Cranes . . .
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Having been remixed by such luminaries as The Cure's Robert Smith, and J. G. Thirwell, the Cranes feature remixes by Michael Brauer and Flood on their latest album Loved. Although the band has always produced themselves, singer Alison Shaw revealed how they might recieve future help from one of these superproducers, when talking to Music View . . .
Alison: Actually, we were talking to Flood just before we started for the tour and I think he's going to be helping us with the next album. Like he was saying, he thinks we should still produce ourselves because just the way we work. He says he shouldn't just come in and completely change what we have. But I think it would be good to work with somebody a bit more closely as well because like it just feels like a good time to try something else.
That's Alison Shaw of Cranes . . .
Presented by: Colin Murphy
© X Communications 1994
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