{"id":1396,"date":"2016-11-29T10:50:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T10:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2016-11-29T11:29:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T11:29:06","slug":"james-bagshaw-discusses-the-recording-of-temples-forthcoming-album-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"James Bagshaw discusses the recording of Temples&#8217; forthcoming album Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Read and listen to JON &#8216;MOJO&#8217; MILLS&#8217; interview with the TEMPLES main man<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1397 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Cv00sBCWEAAy5Dg-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"cv00sbcweaay5dg\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Cv00sBCWEAAy5Dg-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Cv00sBCWEAAy5Dg-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Cv00sBCWEAAy5Dg-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Cv00sBCWEAAy5Dg-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Cv00sBCWEAAy5Dg-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Cv00sBCWEAAy5Dg-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Cv00sBCWEAAy5Dg-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Cv00sBCWEAAy5Dg-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Cv00sBCWEAAy5Dg-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Cv00sBCWEAAy5Dg.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Listen to the full 45 min interview below<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/app.box.com\/embed\/preview\/3ul8hzdhl8ixyw7q9akf4hn02r1by7uz?theme=dark\" width=\"500\" height=\"88\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIt\u2019s been about a year in the making.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have recorded it ourselves again, but have moved up in the world. This one wasn\u2019t recorded in the tiny box room at my parent\u2019s house. I\u2019ve converted a couple of the upstairs rooms into my studio. It\u2019s a lot more extensive now. I am in the process of building a studio in the back garden, in what used to be the old dairy hundreds of years ago, but at the moment upstairs works fine. Like on the first album I\u2019m making the most of what space there is in a house, like Les Paul &amp; Mary Ford or Joe Meek would\u2026 it\u2019s just I have more of it now\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, we have fully produced the album ourselves again. I wouldn\u2019t rule out working with anyone, but nobody within \u2018indie means\u2019 has appealed to me. The people who I regard as very, very good we just wouldn\u2019t be able to afford to pay them to do it. Also when you produce a record yourselves you get exactly what you want. It can be a struggle, but when it works out and pays off it\u2019s well worth it. An achievement. No one else can run a marathon for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin reason you can take as long as you want, but we have had a bit of a rush over the last month. It\u2019s great that we have been left to get on with what we do. Heavenly really get it and they give you the time and the breathing space, but sometimes you panic and think \u2018Do they want us to make this record? Do they <em>know<\/em> we\u2019re making this record?\u2019 They do, but they stand back and let us do what we have to do. Then suddenly you get the due date out of the blue. \u2018The album needs to be delivered by such and such.\u2019 And then it\u2019s\u2026 \u2018Ahhhhh.\u2019 That pushes you on. The good thing is we have just been ironing things out and you need closure. Otherwise we could easily overdo things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Certainty\u2019 started off as a melodic exploration. The sounds I got up in the studio were very instinctively made. The synth bass on the beginning was used as I couldn\u2019t be bothered to go and get my bass out of the case. So it stuck. Once I\u2019d shown everybody they liked it, but you never know what your band mates or the general public will think of an idea that\u2019s a bit different. That bass line was meant to be a bassline, but it ended up staying a synth line. The sound had a certain quality to it as it sounds like an analogue Moog fuzz bass. I was channeling a bit of Air into the song too. \u2018Sexy Boy\u2019 has the same kind of fuzzy feel. Air, on the earlier records, were certainly pioneers of just understanding sound in a really creative way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of writing from Adam on this record too \u2013 everyone\u2019s really written for this record, well the three of us, Tom, Adam and myself \u00ad \u2013 and there\u2019s a song that Adam\u2019s written called \u2018How Would You Like To Go\u2019 and it\u2019s incredibly unique. There\u2019s nothing really quite like it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat era does it sound like? 2017!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a full steam ahead record. We\u2019ve gone all out with the production and trying to create the songs within the environment of an album, so it sounds continuous. We have Side One and Side Two programmed: two intros, and two outros.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1398 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/CwDjUGyVUAE8HTk-1024x742.jpg\" alt=\"cwdjugyvuae8htk\" width=\"750\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/CwDjUGyVUAE8HTk-1024x742.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/CwDjUGyVUAE8HTk-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/CwDjUGyVUAE8HTk-768x556.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/CwDjUGyVUAE8HTk-100x72.jpg 100w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/CwDjUGyVUAE8HTk-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/CwDjUGyVUAE8HTk-200x145.jpg 200w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/CwDjUGyVUAE8HTk-450x326.jpg 450w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/CwDjUGyVUAE8HTk-600x435.jpg 600w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/CwDjUGyVUAE8HTk-900x652.jpg 900w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/CwDjUGyVUAE8HTk.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the first album I buried the vocals more, because I wasn\u2019t as confident as a singer. It\u2019s amazing how much you improve from touring. A lot of the songs on this record had three or four vocal takes, with the exception of a few songs where I wrote in a key that was bit too high, but I liked. So I probably did 20 takes, just because I don\u2019t want to drop the key for the sake of it. I like to push myself and always know it\u2019s doable. I\u2019ve taken that from the live environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen recording I use a mix of everything. From the first record there\u2019s a lot more stuff in the studio now: guitars, amps, out boards. A big thing that changed on this record was the mic that I was using. On the first I purely used rhythm mics because any condenser mics I had used were horribly harsh and sounded like a T\u2019Pau record, and on this new record I have been using a Telefunken U47 Valve Condenser. It\u2019s been a huge part of the sound. Every vocal was recorded using this beauty. The amount of records that have been made using this is incredible. I just plugged it and could see why. I was a bit against the snobbery that goes with gear. There are no rules. But this microphone I have never known anything you can gain up so high and get no noise. It\u2019s like silent. It captures charisma in your vocal. With a rhythm mic you end up adding stuff back in as you are losing the top end. I still to this day adore rhythm mics as I feel it makes you approach the singing in a softer way, but the U47 has been a huge part of the album.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell \u2018Oh The Saviour\u2019 (originally called \u2018Volcano\u2019, which is now the album title) was the first track we recorded vocals with this mic and the approach in the verses is very dry; there\u2019s very little reverb, if any. It just sounded so good by itself. Anything else was like taking the focus of the vocals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1399\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Temples-DesertDazeFestival-InstituteOfMentalphysics-JoshuaTree-10-14-16-ErikaReinsel-8-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"Desert Daze Festival - Institute of Mentalphysics, Joshua Tree, CA 10\/14-15\/16 | Photo by Erika Reinsel\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Temples-DesertDazeFestival-InstituteOfMentalphysics-JoshuaTree-10-14-16-ErikaReinsel-8-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Temples-DesertDazeFestival-InstituteOfMentalphysics-JoshuaTree-10-14-16-ErikaReinsel-8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Temples-DesertDazeFestival-InstituteOfMentalphysics-JoshuaTree-10-14-16-ErikaReinsel-8-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Temples-DesertDazeFestival-InstituteOfMentalphysics-JoshuaTree-10-14-16-ErikaReinsel-8-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Temples-DesertDazeFestival-InstituteOfMentalphysics-JoshuaTree-10-14-16-ErikaReinsel-8-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Temples-DesertDazeFestival-InstituteOfMentalphysics-JoshuaTree-10-14-16-ErikaReinsel-8-200x134.jpg 200w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Temples-DesertDazeFestival-InstituteOfMentalphysics-JoshuaTree-10-14-16-ErikaReinsel-8-450x301.jpg 450w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Temples-DesertDazeFestival-InstituteOfMentalphysics-JoshuaTree-10-14-16-ErikaReinsel-8-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Temples-DesertDazeFestival-InstituteOfMentalphysics-JoshuaTree-10-14-16-ErikaReinsel-8-900x601.jpg 900w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Temples-DesertDazeFestival-InstituteOfMentalphysics-JoshuaTree-10-14-16-ErikaReinsel-8.jpg 1198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGear wise we used: an MS20 synth, a 1952 Selmer Clavioline , WEM copycat, Space Echo (the real deal, not software), some \u201970s DBX compressors, I have a prototype of the Ted Fletcher stereo compressor \u00a0EQ(he built the range of Joe Meek things). I use a front end of an old \u201960s valve reel to reel which I use for DI\u2019ing things. I\u2019ve distorted a lot of things using that as it has a beautiful harmonic valve distortion. It\u2019s ridiculous the amount of gear I now have. The Gretsch is still king, but I have been using a lot of things. On \u2018Born Into The Sunset\u2019 I use a 1966 Gibson Firebird non-reverse 12-string, which I bought when I was in Portland, Oregon. It\u2019s an amazing guitar. I was touring it for a bit but stopped as there are only about 300 in the world. They were made for one year. Over the years of touring I bought quite a few bits. I got a Chandler tube driver and a \u201967 Coronado 12 string in the Antigua finish.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I still use plug ins too as there\u2019s no way I could afford some of the things I want. There\u2019s a difference, but it\u2019s slim. With the analogue thing when you go directly into your computer once you get a good audio interface you really notice what all your gear is doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new album is Temples but Temples rediscovering things. You can listen to both records and it\u2019ll work. We haven\u2019t got lazy with it though and <em>just <\/em>made a follow-up. It should be an interesting record. We wanted to create songs that were interesting but at the same time are doused in pop sensibilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe listen to music a lot in the van on tour. Things that stick out to me are Iggy Pop, there\u2019s always a lot of Bowie, Eno as well\u2026 some Nick Nicely\u2026 some classical stuff\u2026 some Gusta Holtz. It\u2019s an individual thing. I\u2019d definitely say I consume the least music out of everybody. Thomas is the vinyl junkie. He really is. He\u2019s constantly searching. I\u2019m not. If I\u2019m writing songs I don\u2019t listen to music: that\u2019s just how I work. I end up inadvertently ripping something off and I don\u2019t wanna do that! Music fasting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe art is currently being designed by Jonathan Zawada who did the great cover for \u2018Certainty\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Volcano <em>will be released on Heavenly Recordings, March 3<sup>rd<\/sup> 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<span class=\"synved-social-container synved-social-container-share\"><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F1396&#038;t=James%20Bagshaw%20discusses%20the%20recording%20of%20Temples%E2%80%99%20forthcoming%20album%20Volcano&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F1396&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shindig-magazine.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F11%2FCv00sBCWEAAy5Dg-1024x683.jpg&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=James%20Bagshaw%20discusses%20the%20recording%20of%20Temples%E2%80%99%20forthcoming%20album%20Volcano\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F1396&#038;text=New%20post%20on%20our%20site\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=James%20Bagshaw%20discusses%20the%20recording%20of%20Temples%E2%80%99%20forthcoming%20album%20Volcano&#038;body=New%20post%20on%20our%20site:%20https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F1396\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read and listen to JON &#8216;MOJO&#8217; MILLS&#8217; interview with the TEMPLES main man Listen to the full 45 min interview below \u201cIt\u2019s been about a year in the making. \u201cWe have recorded it ourselves again, but have moved up in the world. This one wasn\u2019t recorded in the tiny box room at my parent\u2019s house. 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