Stewart Copeland on Spirits In The Material World

[thedaner]

This link came from Sébastien Ollivier over at LiSting. A video of Stewart talking about the reggae influenced make up of Spirits In The Material World.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00dwkth

Enjoy!

[moonstone]

"Left hand, go and have a cup of tea"

I like that.

[cillae]

Here's another one
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00dwkxz

[smax]

nice, i'm looking forward to this prog.

re; the second clip, i'm not sure where i put the "ghost demos" with regard to what stew says about most songs having not been heard before the day of recording and their conception etc worked out there and then.... seems to me that gordo had pretty complete versions of invisible sun and spirits to play the band if those 'demos' are anything to go by...

[English-lion]

Here's another one
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00dwkxz

And this is way I love The Police raw talent!!!!!!!!

[IndyGirl]

Thanks for posting the links. It was interesting to hear how the songs were recorded so soon after writing the music.

[Horacio]

Another English Language Lesson.
This time leaded by Composer (SC).

[smudge]

'Left hand go have a cup of tea.' Marvelous!

I remember trying to dance in a 4/4 stylee to that song, and failing. It took a few listens to work out that there were several grooves, and then to assign appropriate limbs to each one. (Tea in the left hand would have been dangerous.) That song and much of the previous album were a fantastic rhythmic education.

[Kim]

Less is more!

[Divemistress of the Dark]

A quote from our man on similarity between music from the Mideast and reggae...

200%: In the documentary “Does Everyone Stare” about The Police you say your style comes from Lebanon. Can you tell a little more about that?

Stewart Copeland: Yes, the Baladi rhythm. It’s not like reggae, it comes from a completely different cultural source and in the roots there are no overlaps with the beginning of American music. Baladi and reggae, though, have two aspects in common. They share the use of ‘negative’ space, which is when the rhythm is constructed in a certain way – in that there is a gap in the construction which the drummer can fill with his own interpretation. The other aspect they share is that they emphasize the third beat in the bar – to which they gravitate – not emphasizing the second or fourth beat.

http://200-percent-blog.blogspot.com/20 ... eland.html

[visions]

Thanks for sharing guys

I love the way Stewart expresses himself and as always lots of hand movement
Italy must be rubbing off on him

[smax]

the programme was on and was good... all 90 mins of it. mmmmmmmm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... Britannia/

and this was on before it; The Specials on Rock Goes To College

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... _Specials/

check out the threads and the beats...Live reggae concert from 1973, featuring the Cimarons, Winston Groovy, Dennis Alcapone, the Marvels, Nicky Thomas and the Pioneers:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... _Festival/

[Divemistress of the Dark]

YOW. Thank you, sir. That all looks quite superlative...

[luddite lady]

Gong darn it! I can watch the promos, but the actual program is "not available in (my) area." BBC4 is such a tease. And what's the point of having the Queen on all my money if I can't even watch some quality British programming?