Promotion Velociraptor! Boeing 747 Secret gig.

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Track by track interview with Serge and Tom.

01 - Let's Roll Just Like We Used Too

Serge - It’s like a love letter about the days gone by, hanging on, just like a younger man.
Tom - That means Serge in a field when we lived at the farm. The record days. We were young, we were 23. 23 is foolish.
Hélène - Oh, so it's nostalgic ?
Tom - It’s quite nostalgic, yeah.
That's probably more the tired side, but the voice is a bit nostalgic, too.
Serge - Nostalgic, yeah. It’s got a gipsy love vibe into it.
Tom - It’s probably that.. We were young, more free to express... Free, free, you know what I mean ? We were young...
Hélène - ..slow ?
Serge - No, no, it’s really up-tempo. It’s really pumpin’. It’s a real surprise instanly you rethink everything you thought and you go "ok, they've done it again...". You know, it’s different.

02 - Days Are Forgotten

Serge - Epic kind of rap tune. Massive chorus.
Tom - Base record. Kasabian goes straight away.
Serge - Yes, I suppose it’s like the first record grew up to be, if you know what I mean. Sounds like the first album.. going on..now it's a man, now it knows exactly what the hells goin' on.

03 - Goodbye Kiss

Tom - Heartbreaker. (pause) A lot of people are gonna cry to that in their bedrooms, sobbing. Or play in the car with their fingers. It’s gonna happen 'cause it’s beautiful, it’s one of the most amazing beautiful songs I’ve ever heard. (Serge tries to speak several times and stops as Tom continues) It’s like a Roy Orbison thing, it’s blooming amazing. Aaah, it’s one of the best songs written out there. It’s so good, it’s SO GOOD. Classical, classic tunes. But no one really does that.

04 - La Fée verte

Serge - Like modern days Pink Floyd, like the early Floyd, the first records, not like the late ones.
Tom - Genius, that is genius.
Serge - Goes all over, goes all over. Like Tom said, it’s like three songs in one.
Tom - It’s just breathtaking, Serge, be honest. It’s breathtakingy good.
And what about the lyric wise ?
Serge - It’s about absinth, you know, the green fairy : an ode to losing your mind.
Tom - An upbeat Lullaby, it’s beautiful.

05 - Velociraptor 

Serge - Punk rave song, a bit beastie boys.
Tom - Bang bang bang ! Massive, yeah.

06 - Acid Turkish Bath…

Serge (smiles) - …Shelter From The Storm…
Tom - That’s an intelligent tune. It’s just the way the craft is, the way the drums are, the beats… I’ts just peace taking, really, it flexes the muscles. Beautiful.
Serge - It’s like a symphony. It’s…
Tom - …dark.
Serge - Yeah. Epic. It’s a soundtrack, really, it’s like six and half minutes, a long tune but it’s a really nice tune.
Tom - It’s like driving on a road at nightime, in a car. You know, the Las Vegas’s.
Well, we'll try next time we are there...
Serge - Yeah, the highway.Tom -  The highway, yeah, driving on nightime. High.

07 - I Hear Voices

Serge - Pure electronic tune.
Tom - Electronic rock, pure rock’n’roll.
Serge - Yeah, yeah ! It’s an important tune on the album.
Tom - It has to be huge in big festivals.
Serge - Yeah. And it’s kind of.. Not departure but.. Just an important tune on the record. Everyone hears voices.
Tom - The thing is that it’s a man who deals with demence. It’s a song which is massive.

(Then, he swears to God that it’s the best album ever and that they worked hard in a promotional speech that we heard about 548 times, with a sincere face anyway.)

08 - Re-Wired

Serge - Like a sleezy disco..
Tom - Like a horror house in a rock song.
(Tom imitates a ganster.)Tom - It’s sleazy, you know ?
Serge - Definitely. It flies. It’s gonna be a massive tune, on live and on the radio. Probably a single.

09- Man Of Simple Pleasures

Serge - It’s like a zombie country tune. Broadway-ey.
(we laugh a bit) Yeah, yeah (nice promotional speech). And ?
(Serge giggles, then, as Tom says exactly the same at the same time like his twin : ) It’s a man singing about his life.Tom - It’s pretty special.
Serge - It’s gonna be good on live. Epic.
Tom - Big, big, big singalong.

10 - Switchblade Smiles

Tom - Just pure aggressive.
Serge - Like Rage Against The Machine.
Serge - It takes everything off and keeps getting better on live. It’s just…
Tom - Breathtaking (giggles).
His favourite word. With such a pattern, it’s been a while nobody has no breath anymore.
Serge - It’s the most punchy song.
Tom - It’s like Killing in the Name, it has to blow the edge.

11 - Neon Noon

Serge - You land with a capsule in space (Tom laughs). After the lands you down back to earth. That's another one’s life. When we get to play that, it will be really euphoric.
Tom - It's tripy, it's tripily beautiful. It's like a magical fly through the clouds. You see it rainbows...
Serge - I believe I can fly.Tom - I believe that I can fly, yeah. It's cosmic. It's amazing. Breathtaking.

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Record Label

 Columbia Records
Label History

Founded in 1888, Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. Columbia Records went on to release records by an array of notable singers, instrumentalists and groups. From 1961 to 1990, its recordings were released outside the U.S. and Canada on the CBS Records label before adopting the Columbia name in most of the world. Today it is a premier subsidiary label of Sony Music Entertainment. Steve Barnett and Rick Rubin are the co-heads of Columbia Records. Mike Smith is MD of Columbia UK.

This is their UK record label ^



Kasabian are also signed to a US record label.

The Radio Corporation of America was one of the first major record labels in the United States, and a revolutionary force in the music industry. Throughout the years RCA has emerged from the shadow of its original owners, later going on to form new business partnerships with other major record companies. Today, RCA Records is owned by Sony, where it continues to sell millions of top-selling records each year.

RCA records ^ Kasabians US label.

How does Velociraptor! compare to older albums?

Older albums:

Kasabian

 

NME's rating.. 7/10

Empire 

 

NME's rating... 9/10

West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

 

NME's Rating... 6/10

 

 

Velociraptor!

NME's Rating... 8/10

 

 

For me I think that Kasabians first album Kasabian that wins for me, this was the new trend setting album for the genre of its kind... with the top songs like; Cut off, L.S.F, Prosessed beats, Club foot and reason is treason. According to the iTunes chart Kasabian is the most popular to be downloaded, followed by Velociraptor! the album released on 16th September 2011! Definitly some classic tunes on both albums.

So NME can judge, but they cant back up the sales figures!

 

 

Album cover

Did you know?

That the picture you see on the cover of Velociraptor! is Sergio Pizzorno covered in feathers?

Recording and Producing Velociraptor!

Velociraptor was written and recorded in Sergio Pizzorno's countryside house in Leicestershire. 'Serge' and the gang started work on the album in November 2010

Every night after Serge went to bed, a mysterious presence would arrive through his studio window and help him out. “I know, it sounds mental,” he laughs. “I’d be at home being a dad looking after (baby son) Ennio, and then I’d go into the studio and press play and hear all this amazing music. I wouldn’t remember any of it. I wasn’t getting much sleep and I had the idea it was this Mexican spirit coming down from somewhere and helping me out.”                        Sergio Pizzorno  v          

 the final piece in the jigsaw came with the addition of strings at British Grove Studios in London. “The aim was to make a modern classic,”

The album was then produced and mixed with Dan the Automater in San Francisco.

The album was fullycompleted and polished by march 2011...

< Dan the automater 

Promotion of Velociraptor!

On Monday 5 September 2011 the band played a gig to a small crowd of just 230 people, on a Boeing 747 at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome for online music video platform VEVO. The crowd witnessed the band play new songs "Velociraptor", "Days Are Forgotten", "Switchblade Smiles" and previously unheard "Re-Wired".

Kasabian used this funky setting of an areoplane to promote their up and coming album by video, which was going to be released 2 weeks after!