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...
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What does the addition of strings do to a track Will?
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