The Old-Fashioned Way
Following the roaring success of their recent box set, Who Do You Think We Are?, Canterbury kings Caravan are back with their first new album since 2013’s Paradise Filter. It’s None Of Your Business sees them returning to long-form songs with an updated studio line-up that captures their live sound. Prog catches up with Pye Hastings, Geoffrey Richardson and new boy Lee Pomeroy to find out more.
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L-R: Geoffrey Richardson, Mark Walker, Lee Pomeroy, Pye Hastings, Jan Schelhaas.
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“I brought It’s None Of Your Business to the band and they said, ‘Great, a long number at long last!’” says Caravan guitarist and vocalist Pye Hastings about their new album’s title track, which clocks in at nearly 10 minutes. “But it came out really well. It was the way to go in the early days, doing longer and longer tracks. To revisit that is a good experience. It works now as it used to work then.”
“We rehearsed it and played it in real time as a long piece and enjoyed it,” says viola player and guitarist Geoffrey Richardson. “We were comparing it to Nine Feet Underground [from In The Land Of Grey And Pink], but that was edited together.”
L-R: Geoffrey Richardson, Mark Walker, Lee Pomeroy, Pye Hastings, Jan Schelhaas.