Last week, we featured the first in a series of three acoustic sessions from Modern Hinterland featuring music from their latest album The Longest Part of the Night which we reviewed here.
A reminder from Chris Hornsby explained “Aside from an undying love of MTV unplugged, we thought if we were going to make some videos it would be cool to do something new with the songs. We stripped them right back to basics and built up new versions using a few of the acoustic instruments we had kicking around our flats. We talked Andy Willsher into squeezing all of his Camera’s into a front room and spent an afternoon annoying the neighbours.”
Of “I’m Not One of the Free” he says:
“This version came about when Simon (our Guitarist) sent me a recording of the song with his Nepenenoyka (Lap Harp) and acoustic guitar providing the backdrop and something just seemed to click. It’s changed a lot from the album version as that relies heavily on dynamics so in contrast, we kept this fairly consistent, almost meditative, throughout.”
‘The Longest Part of the Night’ is out now on Label Fandango.
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