This song displays my voice in its rawest form. Did you consciously try to change your singing there?ĮK: My singing on all of my albums is all over the place, so I’m not exactly sure what you mean. SILY: Your vocal delivery on “Will It To Be” is much more crooning than usual. But these songs on Untouchable are entirely my fault, and I take full responsibility for them. These two major contributions are nothing to sneeze at, and the record is indebted to him for his abilities in both of those regards as well as the metaphysical regard of him being a major part of my musical life over the past few years conversationally and spiritually as well as my involvement in his bands The Muggers and The Freedom Band. Ty’s contributions to this record were his wild and amazing drumming and the capturing of the music on to the tape on his tape machine. And “In The Heart Of Her Heart” had been a staple in The Cairo Gang’s live show for the past 3 years. There is some overlap in personnel for sure but to be clear, all of these songs were demoed and completely fleshed out before I entered Ty’s studio with him. Are those the songs on the album where he had the most influence or creative input?ĮK: Thank you. SILY: Songs like “That’s When It’s Over” and “In the Heart of Her Heart” are songs that could have been on Ty Segall’s latest album. At the time of writing it, I was reading mostly ‘pataphysics (Daumal, Gilbert-Lacomte, Jarry) all the while watching the political world crumble beneath the eejit poundings upstairs and experiencing life. So I guess all of that contributed to the musical inspiration. Since I Left You: What were some of the musical and lyrical inspirations behind Untouchable?Įmmett Kelly: Well, during the time I was writing this record, I was listening to mostly Soft Machine-related music (Gong, Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, etc.) at the same time playing a lot with three other bands (The Muggers, The Double, and Alien Flower Sutra) and playing a lot of solo gigs. I got the chance to interview Kelly over email last week. Co-produced by lead-man Emmett Kelley and Segall, Untouchable has all the qualities of the best garage-rock-meets-psychedelia music of the past few years, from memorable hooks to sprawling, yet controlled drumming, and it should further catapult The Cairo Gang out of cult status and into today’s indie rock canon. Later this month, they’ll release their most English psychedelic-inspired work yet, Untouchable, on God?, Ty Segall’s Drag City imprint. But after collaborating on many albums with the revered Bonnie “Prince” Billy and releasing the great Goes Missing in 2015, they broke out to the general music listening public. The Cairo Gang Interview: Listen, But Don’t TouchĬalifornia rock band The Cairo Gang have always achieved a certain local hero status among those who followed their many releases and saw their shows over the past decade.
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