‘Boys Don’t Cry’ Is Coming Soon
It was just last month that Frank Ocean announced his long-awaited new album Boys Don’t Cry, along with a magazine in the works. During a recent Gilles Peterson interview on BBC Radio 6 Music, French pianist Christophe Chassol spoke on working with Ocean at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London, from the studio setting to how they linked up in the first place.
“Ocean invited me to Abbey Road to record on his album. I asked him when I came, ‘how he heard about me?’ He told me his friend Diplo was listening a lot to [Chassol’s 2013 album] ‘Indiamore’, and they started to listen to it, and they were wondering how I was doing the speech harmonization, so he called me. He asked me to do some speech harmonization on a song with him. After a while, it was cool and he was like, ‘yeah, but we have to find another way because you already did it’.
The composer also talked about what it was like to work with Ocean in the studio, adding: “The guy is smart. He’s really smart. The way he works in the studio is really cool. He has a printer, he has a lot of pictures of architecture, contemporary art, a lot of pictures of different kinds of things. So we start to work on a track and he says, this track is this – that car that you can see. He makes me work on a song, and I’m like, ‘oh this sounds like Pino Donaggio’s score for ‘Blow Out’, by Brian Depalma’. I start to work on a song and five minutes later on the pro-tools screen you have the movie, the score, stretched to fit the song – just to try. I’ve never worked with that much money in music. It’s good sometimes to have money, because you can try things.”
Only time will tell if ends up on his sophomore effort, due out in July.
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