![]() I wanted to be totally free from all that." ![]() "For instance, if I'd been playing a guitar part in the rehearsal room that wasn't working out for the record, I'd still want to play it because I'd practiced it that way over and over. "I didn't want to have any hang-ups," he says. When Svensson walked through the studio door with his basic chords and melodies, none of the final guitar parts or guitar sounds were fleshed out. There may be something the next day, of course, and the days that I don't come up with something are necessary for the whole process." "I just have to be able to set up some time to work at it, then realize that maybe it won't happen. "I've learned I can never be the master of my writing," he admits. Then, without pressuring himself, he invited his songwriting muse to visit. You always must do what is best for the songs."Īfter the band's last tour, Svensson sat at home with the sound turned down on his television and guitar in hand. Still, I think more about the whole production than about my guitar parts - the guitars are just a part of the overall arrangement. But for Gran Turismo, I wanted to play more guitar. Back then, I was so eager to play the vibraphone or some keyboards or arrange string sections and horn sections - I like the idea of having people in the studio playing different instruments. "I thought, 'I like guitar, I'm an okay guitar player, and I listen to a lot of guitar music.' But I didn't use much guitar on our earlier records. "I was thinking about what kind of album we wanted to make," says Svensson, who wrote and arranged most of Gran Turismo. Svensson and Johansson worked diligently to twist, bend, and shape the guitars into absolutely bizarro timbres. '98 GP.) And although Amp Farm can deliver very impressive simulations of classic amps, the Cardigans didn't always exploit the technology to produce conventional amp sounds. (For a full product review on Amp Farm, see "Virtual Vintage" in the Nov. The guitars were either recorded direct or processed through Line 6's Amp Farm plug-in for Digidesign's Pro Tools. ![]() What's more, not one guitar track on Turismo was recorded using an amp. All of the album''s sounds are production tricks conjured by guitarist Peter Svensson and producer Tore Johansson. For example, you might think you''re hearing a guitar synth, a harpischord, or a pedal synth, a harpischord, or a pedal steel, but you''re not. But the Cardigan''s fourth album, Gran Turismo, is a revelation of strange and rather unexpected guitar sounds. Swedish popsters the Cardigans dumped an earful of sugar on the world with their 1997 smash hit, "Lovefool." Based on the song''s sparse guitars and bubble-gum chorus, you probably wouldn''t think of the band as raving experimentalists. ![]() A Track-by-Track Tour of The Cardigans' Gran Turismo ![]()
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