But they essentially end up fed into the Fairlight and that is the essential working tool. 'From a composition point of view, for me exclusively the Fairlight but I would also say that one goes out and makes recordings of natural sounds, aircraft passing, bikes starting and all that sort of business, so they are part of the raw material. I suddenly realised that here was something (Fairlight) that would change the face of music and it interested me immensely.'Īs for the equipment they use for work on the Art Of Noise, JJ had this to say. Both of us sat down with the, as it was then, brief manual and tried to figure out what the hell was going on. He decided to buy this new 'beastie' called the Fairlight, which duly arrived from Australia. 'My original interest started many, many years ago, probably in 1979 when I was working for Geoff Downes and he was building a large keyboard rig. I asked JJ how he had become interested in synthesized and sampled sounds. Their latest single, Yebo, was a collaboration with the South African Mahlathini & the Mahotella Queens which has been widely acclaimed in the music press. Anne is a highly successful film score writer and producer with her score for Buster winning a Brit award for the best soundtrack in 1988. Their re-working of Mancini's Peter Gunn along with the guitarist Duane Eddy won the AoN a Grammy award.īoth Anne and JJ are successful outside of the AoN with JJ producing hit singles for the PSBs and making 12' mixes for the likes of Paul McCartney, Billy Idol and Yes, to name but a few. They were reduced to a duo after Gary Langan left but went on to tour America, Japan and a sole British Gig in 1986. The AoN aren't generally noted for this but they were voted the second best black music act of 1983 due to the 7' version of Beat Box reaching the top of the American dance charts. The result of this chance event was the chart-topping Beat Box.

They called in their friend Anne Dudley to 'provide the melodic and harmonic interest'. Jeczalik and Gary Langan had finished working on Yes's album 90125 and decided to put the studio to their own use for once. The Art of Noise is an unusual group, not only because of it's music but because it's members have come from behind the scenes careers in the music industry.

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