"I wanted to make a quiet record.
It's a quiet record with only female vocals.
There are older-jazz echoes here — Thelonious Monk, Lee Konitz — but three of these four musicians are composers, and this quiet record is loaded with new-sounding purpose.
I'm gonna make a quiet record.' " That explains how the Neptunes came to work with Babyface, a skilled singer, songwriter and producer who specializes in polished love songs.
Thank you for ignoring my quiet record of good deeds and selfless civic involvement while reheating all the classic bon mots, group sex, and scuffles with Wikipedia administrators.
Then I kind of got to the edge of the precipice and I jumped off and I said, "I just want to start again and I want to make a little, quiet record with a little band".
Although he's often considered the godfather of ambient music (he'll make you a very quiet record you can't refuse!), Ambient 1: Music For Airports (1978) wasn't the first ambient album.
Listening to this quieter recording, we couldn't tell the difference between the original and the shrunken MP3, which again was about half its original size".
"If we were trying to make a big, successful major label record, we certainly turned in the wrong record," says Gibbard. "We recorded this very introspective, quiet, dark record, with hardly any 'rock' moments on it.
Helm released a series of quiet solo records in the late seventies and early eighties, dabbled in acting, participated in a brief Band reunion, and battled cancer.
