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Titanic requiem -Robin Gibb


Andy Gibb -rare interview


 

19 Jan 2012

With the Bee Gees we’d often do a demo and ad-lib the melody and vocal, like a writing process, only it turns out to be a record. Don’t Cry Alone happened very much that way too. It went down once; I ad-libbed the words, just the words as they came into my head at the moment, and the melody as well, and whatever the result was is what you hear.

Don’t Cry Alone was written and recorded in 2008 with Peter John Vettese, and I hadn’t been thinking of including it on The Titanic Requiem but the producers and the RPO wanted it to go on the album. What happened was that we were sitting with Cliff Masterson and someone from the Royal Philharmonic, looking for the right echo for Christmas Day, and I played Don’t Cry Alone to them. After we’d finished, they said: “that’s on the album right, because if not, it’s got to be!” So we kept the original vocal but added the orchestra and included it.

The song fits in The Titanic Requiem, as it’s very much in the same vain as Christmas Day and Daybreak: the spirit that is gone is consoling the spirit that is alive. It’s the voice of the person that’s gone consoling the living, to “believe in me, and have faith in the future, cos I’ll always be with you”. That’s the angle of the song, and it’s a positive angle: “as the sun sets new suns are rising, as winter heralds spring’s horizon”. There’s an upside to it, it has that “it’s darkest before dawn” feeling.

BBC Radio 2 will premier the song on UK radio and I’m very excited about the initial reaction to Don’t Cry Alone and The Titanic Requiem! Hope you dig it!

Robin xxx

 

complete interview see this link!!

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2089867/How-obsession-Titanic-helped-save-life-Bee-Gee-Robin-Gibb-working-orchestral-requiem.html

Hi

Great news! The release of my first classical album, The Titanic Requiem, which I composed with my son RJ, is now imminent. The UK/Europe release date is March 19, the US/Canada date will be confirmed shortly. The album's release will be celebrated with a concert in London, at Westminster's Central Hall, on April 10, and tickets for the general public will go on sale this Sunday.

I will have concert ticket pre-sales information for you tomorrow (so you have first grabs) as well as buy links to pre-order the CD, so make sure to check out my website tomorrow. Later tonight, the press release announcing The Titanic Requiem will be sent out to the media in Britain and I'll have a copy of that and extensive album information placed on my website at that point. So go check that out later this evening. All further information about the album, concert, interviews etc that becomes available over the next weeks will be posted on robingibb.com, and, I'll make sure to have some exclusives and goodies for you as well. There will be Facebook and Twitter pages dedicated to The Titanic Requiem active soon too.

In the mean time, make sure to check out the Titanic Requiem "splash" which has just gone live: www.thetitanicrequiem.com where you can find some information, video and music already. You can also listen to the album's lead track Don't Cry Alone, which I sing. And, I've posted a short blog on my site about the song which you can read here.

I'm very excited about the initial reaction to the album from media in my country and hope you will share my excitement. Enjoy Don't Cry Alone!

Speak soon

Robin xx


 

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4ec22-9225e-7c0F1-P78bA-6Nq1v-P05W9-58cbThis this what Robin shared in his Blog: "It was great to see Barry and Linda on their surprise visit! We got a lot of talking done and made good plans between us for the future. Spencer came over earlier and will be back before Christmas and Melissa is staying with me and Dwina and RJ for a while. It was also good to catch up with Dick and David English. We all had a great time but most of all it was the best tonic ever to be with Barry again and making plans! Robin xxx"

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8. How big was your influence during the recording of the album?

8. Hoeveel invloed had je tijdens de opnames van een album?

 

My influence was extremely limited. On my best days, I just tried to stay out of the way, so that you listen to the song and not the recording.

 On one occassion, Barry said that I was their only link to Earth, which sounds reasonable.

Mijn invloed was zeer beperkt. Als het een goede dag was ,dan bleef ik gewoon uit de buurt zodat je alleen naar het nummer luistert en niet naar de opname zelf.

Op een gegeven moment zei Barry dat ik hun enige link naar de aarde was wat begrijpelijk is.

9. If the Bee Gees would produce another artist which artist would be their favorite choice?

9.Als de Bee Gees een andere artiest konden produceren, welke artiest zou dan hun favoriet zijn?

Good question - you'd have to ask them!  I would have loved for them to work with Paul McCartney, because I think they could have challenged him in a way that few producers and songwriters could. I'd love to hear what a collaboration with a top R&B artist like Jay Z or a top country artist lik eCarrie Underwood would sound like as well.

 Goede vraag ,maar dat zou je hun zelf moeten vragen.  Persoonlijk had ik graag dat ze nog eens met Paul McCartney werkte, Omdat ik geloof dat ze hem nog meer kunnen uitdagen dan andere producers en songwriters zouden kunnen doen.

Een samenwerking met een top R & B artiest als Jav Z of een top country artiest zoals Carrie Underwood  zou ik ook klasse vinden.

10. Were you also involved in activities such as live performances of the brothers one night only concerts?

10. Was je ook betrokken bij evenementen zoals de live optredens van de ONO concerten?

 Yes, I did a lot of the pre-production and rehearsals with the band before all of the One Night Only preformances and then ran the monitors (on-stage sound) for the band and Bee Gees.  Looking back, these were some of themost stressful but rewarding experiences.

Jazeker. Ik deed veel voorbereidend productiewerk en repetities met de band voor de ONO optredens en zorgde voor de monitors(podiumgeluid) voor de band en de Bee Gees.

Terugkijkend waren dat de meest stresserende maar lonende ervaringen.

 

11. You make music technically how is it to work with people who do not put notes on paper, yet yielded practical problems?

 

11. Jij maakt muziek met techniek , hoe is het om te werken met mensen die geen noten op papier kunnen schrijven, lgaf dit praktische problemen?

I think people in the studio are like a team of horses:  if they work together, they can movequickly and powerfully to drive an artist ahead; however, if they work inopposite directions, they can pull an artist apart.

Mensen in een studio zijn een team. Als ze goed samenwerken kunnen ze een artiest snel en krachtig vooruit drijven. Als het team dit niet kan dan valt alles uiteen.

Of course, the brothers certainly express themselves clearly to musicians and producers, and it's our job to translate what they ask into practical application.  That's true for any artist and production team.  Ideally,each can trust the other to understand their job and help propel the songforward.

De broers kunnen zich goed uitdrukken richting muzikant en producent en het is onze taak om datgene wat gevraagd wordt om te zetten in een in de praktijk werkbaar iets. Dat geldt voor elke artiest en productieteam.  In het ideale geval kan het vertrouwen in elkaars werk de voortgang van het lied helpen.

Music is not a written tradition, it's an aural one, so being able to read and write music is unnecessary to be creative, in the same way that you do not need to read or write in English or Dutch to be a great storyteller.  I believe that their legacy of work speaks (sings?) for itself in terms of success in communicating their ideas,both to those in the studio and ultimately to the audience.

Muziek is niet een schriftelijke traditie, Het is een auditieve , zo het kunnen lezen of schrijven van muziek is niet nodig om creatief te zijn, net zoals je geen engels of nederlands hoeft te kunnen lezen en schrijven om een goed verhaal te kunnen schrijven.

Ik geloof dat hun nalatenschap van hun werk voor zich spreekt (of zingt?) wat betreft de mate van succes in het overbrengen van hun ideeën, zowel in de studio als uiteindelijk het publiek.

 

12. What was the most pronounced characteristic of each individual brother?

12. Wat is het meest uitgesproken karakter van elke broer?

Barry -inventive, creative; and business-minded.

Barry: inventief - creatief - zakelijk

Robin - commercial-minded,clever and ambitious.

Robin- commercieel - slim en ambitieus

Maurice - extremely talented, likeable, and terribly missed.

 Maurice - ontzettend getalenteerd - aardig en word vreselijk gemist.

A special thank you to John Merchant for making this interview possible and for taking the time to answer these fanquestions from all over the world.

And ofcourse a big thank you also for celebrating the 5th anniversary of the website with us .

 

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