Playback, an interview with Robert Jonnum (page 3 of 3)

How much of the music is improvised?

“Much of the music is more or less written beforehand, but there are elements of improvisation. We never actually rehearse a song before recording it, and we don't really rehearse when we're not recording. We
change around on the instruments while recording, and this also helps to bring more improvisation into our music, as most of us never actually learned to play anything. Beyond that, I don't think there is much jazz about us. We recorded for a film recently, and this forced us to work more intensely with just pieces and elements of music.”


Matt Dornan, Comes with a smile

CWAS #8 - Summer 2001

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