Ed Laurie – 18-01-2012

The album self is somehow a different experience for him, as the way of working on it seems quite different from how he had worked on material before. He recorded it with three charming Italian fellows that are joining in the conversation as well. The guys have known each other for quite some time, also performing together in a jazz formation and Ed Laurie flew in from London to Italy to record this album there. “Makes more sense for me to go there than have all of them fly to London” he tells and we can only agree to that. Who does not want to enjoy the beauty of Italy after all?
In the cellar of a theatre the guys came together with quite an open book. The material was raw, not finished and not rehearsed, something that was quite new for them. “The songs had some direction, I wasn’t sure of the lyrics, but that was the plan. It was very in the moment”. At least it enlightened their creativity as it seems. This comes also forth when we talk about the songs more in particular. When being so open into a recording session we could imagine being very surprised when listening to the results as it is now to be found on ‘Cathedral’. The band tells they were certainly surprised as they did not follow anything of the mixing process in which a lot of things may change to what was the original plan. Ed Laurie self says to be most surprised about the song ‘Side of A Candle’: “the last two minutes of that song are completely improvised”.