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AH: Yes I do, very much so. As to exactly what it's going to be I'm not quite sure, because there's a lot of logistics involved. I always wanted to record with a pedal steel guitar player; I think pedal steel guitar and guitar in place of a keyboard is a very interesting sound to me. I always wanted to do something with a string quartet, French horns, with an acoustic rhythm section. I absolutely would love to work with some of these unbelievable Indian musicians, but I'm not sure I'd be able to hang with them on a raga. (Laughs). | AH: Yes I do, very much so. As to exactly what it's going to be I'm not quite sure, because there's a lot of logistics involved. I always wanted to record with a pedal steel guitar player; I think pedal steel guitar and guitar in place of a keyboard is a very interesting sound to me. I always wanted to do something with a string quartet, French horns, with an acoustic rhythm section. I absolutely would love to work with some of these unbelievable Indian musicians, but I'm not sure I'd be able to hang with them on a raga. (Laughs). | ||
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Allan, the average listener would be very bemused by your music. Not too many singalong choruses there... | Allan, the average listener would be very bemused by your music. Not too many singalong choruses there... | ||
"Not really, no. I don't know where it comes from really; it's like a little portal to the other side. I suppose it was initially classical music, which was what my father played around the house; he had loads of records so there's obviously a lot of classical in there. But he was also a jazz musician and had a lot of jazz in his collection too, so that was another obvious source of information." | "Not really, no. I don't know where it comes from really; it's like a little portal to the other side. I suppose it was initially classical music, which was what my father played around the house; he had loads of records so there's obviously a lot of classical in there. But he was also a jazz musician and had a lot of jazz in his collection too, so that was another obvious source of information." | ||
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