ICYMI: Gang of Youths Are Primed for an American Breakthrough, Starting With Their Dallas Show
treatment with Le'aupepe sitting for a coveted conversation with Anthony Mason. By all means, Gang of Youths is primed for a breakout on American shores.
“Most of the samples you hear on the record were recorded by [composer] David Fanshawe in either the late '60s, '70s, maybe even early '80s,” Hobden says. “He basically set out to that part of the world and all these different Pacific Islands to record indigenous communities singing local songs, Christian hymns, all kinds of things.”
“To be honest, we were just not ready,” he says. “We didn't have the songs, we were paying money for these great places in London to record at, but we weren't in a position to do it. And I, as a new guy, I wasn't really querying the method because I just assumed this was how this band works. We would go in the ... studio to smash it out. But it wasn't working out. Dave was going through a sort of writer's block.
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