Stewart Cobleland is known as a third of the police, the trio who leads the plans he called after five famous albums released between 1978-1983 and launched Sting to Solo Stardom.
With the police, which also included guitarist Andy Samarz, outside the photo, changed the path of the drama player, became a degree and television composer, and works on prominent films such as “Rumble Fish” and “Wall Street” as well as “The Equalizer”, “Dead Like Me”.
After a tour of the police all over the world, which was the highest severe trip in 2007, Coelland again recorded the live orchestra of the classic film “Ben-Hur” in 2014.
He also re -imagined the police catalog with a pair of releases, the “distorted police for the year” for 2023 and exploring the international music “Police Beyond Borders” with the collaborator Ricky Cage, who also worked with him in the album “Divine Tides” for 2021.
Our conversation with Koblland, 72, was originally linked to his tour of speaking, “Did you say too much? The police, Hollywood and other adventures,” but the history of Los Angeles was canceled in the wake of the balls of the Pallisyads and Altadina. Ever Raconeur, Cobleland takes the speaking round to Europe this spring and autumn.
It also has a new album, “Wild Concerto”, which is located on April 18. We talked to Kobland, first via Zoom, then a follow -up phone call, about his new project and his crowded creative life outside the police.
Tell me about your new album. These are not “pets’ sounds” or “animals” from Pink Floyd with a few voices of random animals full of observation. You seem more committed.
Stewart Kobland: Well, yes, animals get a much larger switching room. Not only is called animal sounds. He – she He is Animal sounds.
How did that happen?
A phone call. The family records, owned by Apple. They acquired this library from a natural world, Martin Stewart, like [British biologist and TV host] David Attenburo of sound. This is how it was described. He spent his life on his hands and knees in the forests and in the mountains mostly recorded bird sounds, but all other animals as well. He has this huge library of these voices as they wonder what they are doing. They said, “What about we did some music?” So they called me and said, “Can you work with this?” And I said, “Why yes, I can. Perhaps the reason they called me was that I was using the existing voice, starting with” Rumble Fish “, where Francis is [Ford Coppola]My ears when I started talking about making rings with machines, billiard balls, with bark dogs, all kinds of sounds in 1984. “
So how did you create music using animal sound recordings?
The volumes that Li Martin sent were from different places where the birds may stop and phosphreles from these different areas. I was starting with the background sounds, which are just a forest bar or a wind strip, and then I will search for rhythmic elements and some birds, which are rhythmic, and I will build rhythms from that. I did not change any of the votes. I did not change the stadium. I did not change the rhythm, but I put them all very carefully, so I build a rhythm with these rhythmic animals, the rhythm section. Then I looked for long lines, most of which are birds, wolves also contain some very long single melody lines, which are on the field. But I put Trombon next to these bad children. And now our own [John] Colatran wolves.
Interesting. So, did you not spontaneity of any of the animal’s voices?
No autotune. No time extending.
I mentioned “fish fish”. When I put the album for the first time, I definitely felt “Rumble Fish”.
Well, that’s all I did myself here in the studio.
For R: Producer Ricky Cage, Martin Stewart Natural Sound recorder, Copland in the studio while making “wild conciele”.
(Archie BROKSBANK)
After doing two albums that the music is re -interpreted by the police returned to nature, the only place to go from there?
I forgive myself to look back and do police things because I am sure of my movement forward. Currently, I run a giant opera I wrote and this album on animals, so I am moving forward in doing great things, making me more relaxed about looking at my shoulder.
This seems to be a kind of natural progress of your author and organizing.
Yes, of course. Another love in my life is the orchestra and all the amazing things you can do. Orchestra has such huge vocabulary. In my short life, I may not do more than just scratching the surface of what the orchestra can do, but I am working on it.
This album produced Ricky Cage, with which I worked with him in the past. What do I come to the project?
He is an incredible musician and a great product and works there in Bangalore. It came to the path of the monastery [in London]It is the place where we recorded the orchestra and we produced a session. The presence of a product is a very new thing for me. I have never passed my career for a product. The police did not have a product. We only had registration engineers. Recently, I had an experience with a product and a man, what took me a long time? This is amazing. Another person who tends to carry pregnancy and hit me upside down when I need to get upside down.
But was not police producers to the band, such as Hugh Badham on “Synchronicity”?
He used to produce the Book of Genesis and other civilized and respected musicians on an island with three A-to go to it. He knew where to place the microphones while avoiding pizza. I have already received a good registration. If there is [more] The active product, could have helped somewhat dismantle those battles or maintain matters civil, but perhaps not.
Are you still playing Polo? [Copeland’s logo on his website is a polo player riding a horse]
no. I traded in all horses for children, and it turned out to be more expensive. I have seven children, which is more expensive than 12 hp.
amazing. What is the spread of your children?
[Starts to say 50 but slurs his words to make it undecipherable] To 25, then I got five grandchildren. When you start lying about the age of your children, you know that you wake up there.What is the oldest? Didn’t I get out completely?
[Once again starts saying 50 but slurs his words].Fifty things?
Yes, 50 thing. We will go with that.
Connecting Copland during the registration session of “Wild Concerto”
(Archie BROKSBANK)
But you still look young and consistent.
My children became middle -aged before I became eroded. I can always outperform, and go beyond all my children. Then I began to get a junction at the age of 70.
Are any of your children involved in music or Showbiz?
Only one. It is in London. He is actually a movie director but has a gift of music. It picks any tool and music falls only from his fingers. And one of my grandchildren, 8 years old. Arthur did not get any musical pieces, but whenever they came, he would go directly to the big piano looking for wonderful things there. You can see that it is only in its DNA.
