The Hope Six Demolition Project new album info

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The story behind PJ Harvey's public recording experiment

Last week saw the release of PJ Harvey's ninth album The Hope Six Demolition Project. The first we heard about the album was right at the beginning of last year, when it was announced that Harvey would be making the record in plain view of the general public at Somerset House in London

Despite Australian audiences clamouring to announce that our own Regurgitator had gotten to the idea first, it was still a pretty incredible prospect.

Many aspects of Harvey's music and particularly her creative process have been sheathed in mystery throughout her career, so why would she let anyone who wants to see her work into the inner sanctum?

Australian musician Mick Harvey is a constant collaborator with PJ Harvey and played extensively on the new record. Speaking to Double J this week, he shed some light on how this very strange recording-as-performance experiment eventuated.

"It was an odd thing for Polly to have done, because she's usually very protective about that part of the process," he concedes. "It wasn't really by design, it was partly by accident in the way that it all developed and became a kind of working performance as well as being a recording session."

The space in which she records is vital to PJ Harvey. Somerset House seemed a perfect option for the new album.

"She just wanted to record in an unusual space, like we did with Let England Shake when we recorded in the old church up the hill from the village she was living in in Dorset," Harvey says.

"She was looking for a space and found this fantastic basement space in Somerset House, which is this huge complex of old buildings in London, off The Strand.

"The problem was, there's art galleries and all sorts of things on the ground floor and a restaurant directly above this fantastic old space. So they had to soundproof the area. To fund that they started discussing if they could have a thing where the public comes in and watch."

From there, it was a case of the idea taking on a life of its own, no doubt helped along by some very excited venue and record label staff.

"By the time Polly started to get really nervous about the whole thing it had gotten out of control," Harvey says. "It wasn't really what she'd initially wanted to do but it was too late; too many people had invested too much time and energy and she would have felt terrible pulling the plug on the whole thing.

So she pushed on, which meant stepping well and truly out of her comfort zone.

"She found herself in this situation she's not used to being in and not necessarily that comfortable with," Mick Harvey says.

"She is very protective about the creative process, so it was amazing of her to take that on board and allow the exhibition aspect of it to take place and the creative process to be observed.

"It was very generous of her, I think she was fantastic about it. She tried to look on the positive side of it and just go with it."

The actual process of recording while the public watched on behind a one way mirror sounds daunting. But Mick Harvey says that it was pretty much business as usual. He even thinks it may have helped the musicians retain their focus.

"There were four viewing sessions a day, so we had quite a lot of time each day where we knew there wasn't anyone there watching and we could get on with things as normal," he says.
"But things as normal was pretty similar to the way they were when people were there, to be honest. It actually just kept us focused. Sometimes you can have a bit of downtime and just have a chat for 15 minutes about different things.

"We were aware that we couldn't have private conversations and discussions about what we were doing outside of the studio. So we kept pretty much on course when we knew there was a viewing session happening."

Mick Harvey doesn't know how PJ Harvey feels about the sessions now that they're complete, but he knows that

"I'm not sure what she would feel about it now, in hindsight, but it didn't adversely affect the recording as such. In fact, it was possibly the opposite. Oddly, it actually worked fine and kept us focused."

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I've had "The Community of Hope" stuck in my head all morning!

[Shadowboxer]

It's been over a month. I need a new music video! HURRY UP SEAMUS!

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The Orange Monkey!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RpWMbYEqik


By far my favorite of the three released

did somebody managed to watch it?

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First week sales of 55,000 worldwide

http://www.mediatraffic.de/albums.htm

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Inside PJ Harvey's The Hope Six Demolition Project with long time collaborator Mick Harvey

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http://fasterlouder.junkee.com/inside-pj-harveys-the-hope-six-demolition-project-with-long-time-collaborator-mick-harvey/861761

Inside PJ Harvey's The Hope Six Demolition Project with long time collaborator Mick Harvey

I don’t know if I’m meant to talk about it. There is an idea to do a [wider] tour early next year. I think the intention from her side is to tour a lot.

Oh good!

[Kujjj]

Darn, I really feel like River Anacostia is not as good as it could be. Im just glad we have the live version, because to me its 10 times better. It just reminds me of a carnival, the studio version. The carnival like organ, and the guitar line that comes in at about 1:30 sounds like a rollercoaster to me. The organ really needs a bigger sound than that fairground organ. Had to vent, its making me mad lol. The live version is one of my top 5 songs from her while the studio version doesn't come close. Just my opinion.

I need to see what its like on tour.

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Where is the live version? Thx.

PS - Never mind, found it on DIME.

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I like the male chorus, I can sing along with them and not trying to make Polly's voice