With William DuVall’s newest solo album, 11.12.21, he and his band recorded reside direct-to-disc within the legendary Welcome to 1979 studio in Nashville. What which means is that what you hear on the album is strictly what was performed and recorded within the studio; there was no enhancing after the actual fact.
Just a few months after that, DuVall received invited to collaborate with The Hu and his expertise was a little completely different.
“I was literally moving around vocal and instrumental parts,” DuVall instructed Chuck Armstrong on Loudwire Nights on Tuesday evening (June 20). DuVall’s contribution was far more than a easy collaboration. Yes, he sang on “This Is Mongol (Warrior Souls)”—which will probably be a part of The Hu’s upcoming deluxe model of Rumble of Thunder—however he additionally combined it and engineered all of it by himself.
“This was one of those things where it just sort of took on a life of its own.”
While some may assume the stark variations between the making of 11.12.21 and “This Is Mongol (Warrior Souls)” could be jarring, there is not any query DuVall loved the various ranges of manufacturing and creating such various music.
“This particular track with The Hu was definitely unlike any other production and songwriting experience that I had ever had,” he defined. “Eventually, I just said, ‘Send me everything.’ I got it and I worked alone in this very room, carving and sculpting the record as it is now. I wasn’t in a conventional studio and they weren’t present, so I didn’t have them there or any representative of theirs in the room. I didn’t have any of that.”
It was clear within the dialog that this expertise was very vital to DuVall as a result of it was a lot deeper than him merely serving to create the monitor; he needed the track to imply one thing.
“How can we tell this story, get this point across in the best possible way where it doesn’t detract from what [The Hu] already do so uniquely and so well,” DuVall stated of his activity at re-imagining “This Is Mongol.”
“They’re representing their whole country, they’re representing much more than just their band and themselves … We tried to make an anthem out of [this song]. It was a very, very welcome challenge and a very, very cool experience. It turned out well and I’m glad they liked it so much.”
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And although DuVall’s degree of involvement within the completely different tasks he is a part of could look completely different, one factor has at all times and certain will at all times stay fixed: His palms are throughout any piece of music that he is connected to.
“My solo work or anything else I’m doing, whether it’s Giraffe Tongue Orchestra or my previous band Comes With the Fall, all of those things, I’m really involved in,” he admitted. “In Alice [in Chains], it’s more like, whoever writes the song more or less charts the course and the other guys all sort of contribute within that framework. Yeah, a song like ‘So Far Under’ off of Rainier Fog, I came in with that music, I had that lyric, I had that arrangement, so for something like that, I charted the course. Other things, like ‘Never Fade’ on that same album, [Jerry] Cantrell had that chorus and that music, I took it and ran with it … There’s no one way things come together. For the most part, the writer sets the tone and the other guys complement the tone.”
What Else Did William DuVall Discuss on Loudwire Nights?
- Why 2023 was going to be a quiet yr for Alice in Chains and what modified their plans
- What it was like recording his solo album, 11.12.21, in such a singular approach
- How is songs evolve over time, like Alice in Chains’ “A Looking in View”
Listen to the Full Interview within the Podcast Player Below
William DuVall joined Loudwire Nights on Tuesday, June 20; the present replays on-line right here, and you may tune in reside each weeknight at 7PM ET or on the Loudwire app; you too can see if the present is out there on your native radio station and take heed to interviews on-demand. You can stream “This Is Mongol (Warrior Souls)” at this location and seize particulars on the deluxe version of their album, Rumble of Thunder, right here.
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