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* [https://www.discogs.com/WPC-Ogilala/master/1251183 Zowie] |
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+ | Recording sessions for Billy Corgan's second solo album Ogilala. Largely written on Corgan's first trip touring America in early 2016, producer Rick Rubin urged Corgan to record a stripped-down, acoustically-based album. Basic tracking sessions were held in July, with overdubs in October. |
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| + | <nowiki> </nowiki>want to do something with these”. I also made up my own mind, at that |
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| + | point, that I wasn’t going to do any more Pumpkins records. That’s when I |
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| + | <nowiki> </nowiki>started moving down this road, and really, I could have called it |
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| + | didn’t give that part too much thought. The whole process really began |
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| + | when Rick Rubin said he was interested in being involved; that’s when it |
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| + | <nowiki> </nowiki>became a serious thing, and the next thing I knew, I was out recording |
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| + | He told me he liked the feeling of the demos that I sent him, so he just |
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| + | <nowiki> </nowiki>wanted to start there and see where it led us. He didn’t have a |
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| + | destination in mind, I don’t think - he said he wanted to let the record |
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| + | <nowiki> </nowiki>make itself, so it wasn’t like when we were recording, we knew what |
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| + | would and wouldn’t be the final version. We were open to anything, and I |
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| + | <nowiki> </nowiki>trusted him to take it to wherever it’d have some energy behind it. I |
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| + | said from the beginning that I was happy to follow his lead.<ref>Joe Goggins, "American Processional", Drowned In Sound, October 24, 2017</ref> |
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doing.” But he wouldn’t tell you how to do that, nor would he want to |
doing.” But he wouldn’t tell you how to do that, nor would he want to |
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manipulate you.<ref>Steve Baltin, "William Patrick Corgan On Being 'The Auteur Of All This Madness", Forbes, October 17, 2017</ref> |
manipulate you.<ref>Steve Baltin, "William Patrick Corgan On Being 'The Auteur Of All This Madness", Forbes, October 17, 2017</ref> |
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| + | '''Billy Corgan on James Iha''': He came to visit me when I was demoing some of the songs, just to hang |
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| + | out, and because he was sitting there I thought, well, fuck, I’m going |
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| + | to play some of them to him and get some feedback. He was very |
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| + | encouraging, and that encounter stuck with me, so when the record was |
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| + | almost done, and as Rick was saying that it was my last chance to add |
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| + | anything else, I sent James the whole album and told him to pick |
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| + | whatever he wanted, so that it’d be about what he was attracted to. He |
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| + | picked ‘Processional’ and one other song that didn’t make the album. I |
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| + | love the work he did, it’s so cool.<ref>Joe Goggins, "American Processional", Drowned In Sound, October 24, 2017</ref> |
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Revision as of 16:37, 23 September 2018
July and October 2016 - Shangri La Studios, Malibu, CA
Produced by Rick Rubin and Billy Corgan; engineered by Dana Nielsen & Jason Lader
- Aeronaut
- Amarinthe
- Antietam
- Archer
- Half-Life of an Autodidact
- The Long Goodbye
- Mandarynne
- Processional
- Shiloh
- The Spaniards
- Zowie
- [approximately 4 more songs]
Recording sessions for Billy Corgan's second solo album Ogilala. Largely written on Corgan's first trip touring America in early 2016, producer Rick Rubin urged Corgan to record a stripped-down, acoustically-based album. Basic tracking sessions were held in July, with overdubs in October.
It was a bit of a strange process. I was working on a Pumpkins album, but I became sort of disgusted with the whole thing, so I quit it. I wrote another group of songs, listened to them back, and thought, “OK, I want to do something with these”. I also made up my own mind, at that point, that I wasn’t going to do any more Pumpkins records. That’s when I started moving down this road, and really, I could have called it anything: I could have put it out under a different name entirely. I didn’t give that part too much thought. The whole process really began when Rick Rubin said he was interested in being involved; that’s when it became a serious thing, and the next thing I knew, I was out recording it at his studio in beautiful Malibu.
He told me he liked the feeling of the demos that I sent him, so he just wanted to start there and see where it led us. He didn’t have a destination in mind, I don’t think - he said he wanted to let the record make itself, so it wasn’t like when we were recording, we knew what would and wouldn’t be the final version. We were open to anything, and I trusted him to take it to wherever it’d have some energy behind it. I said from the beginning that I was happy to follow his lead.[1]
I loved it, I turned myself over to Rick and just said, “Work your magic and I’ll just try to follow along.” And I let him guide the process, where usually I am much more hands on. He makes really wonderful decisions and after a while, once I started to understand his vision, which he doesn’t necessarily articulate, it comes out more in his decision making, then I was able to get behind that and push it to something that felt very personal. So I loved it.
I think he has an incredible ear for clarity. If you present something three different ways he’ll pick the way that is most clear. And what I mean by clear is the way that would then translate to people all over the world. What he’s attracted to is what a lot of other people would be attracted to. If you look at that which has been most successful for Rick it’s those things that are super clear, like they’re clear on first listen. And I don’t care if you’re talking about the Beasties or Slayer. He has a way of navigating to the heart of the matter. As an artist, that can be kind of weird because, in many ways, it feels like it’s not enough, like there should be more. I’ll give you a perfect example, during the recording sessions he played me one of his favorite Neil Diamond songs that I never heard. It was mid-‘70s Neil Diamond and he was literally in tears because he loved the song so much. And his point for showing me the song was to illustrate a certain emotional quality that Neil captured on the song. And that was his way of communicating, “Gee, I wish you would get some of this in what you’re doing.” But he wouldn’t tell you how to do that, nor would he want to manipulate you.[2]
Billy Corgan on James Iha: He came to visit me when I was demoing some of the songs, just to hang out, and because he was sitting there I thought, well, fuck, I’m going to play some of them to him and get some feedback. He was very encouraging, and that encounter stuck with me, so when the record was almost done, and as Rick was saying that it was my last chance to add anything else, I sent James the whole album and told him to pick whatever he wanted, so that it’d be about what he was attracted to. He picked ‘Processional’ and one other song that didn’t make the album. I love the work he did, it’s so cool.[3]
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