Casper Adrien talks about Desire the Reckless: Some songs almost write themselves; Desire The Reckless was definitely NOT one of them. In many ways it felt like the old fisherman’s battle in Hemmingway’s The Old Man & The Sea. During the process of writing it I often thought this fish was too big to reel in and like the old fisherman this battle was a battle with myself, my own ideas and ambitions. I wrote it in a time when I had to redefine who I was and what I stood for. I had to reinvent certain aspects of myself to become more who I envisioned myself to be. During this phase of introspection I found the roots of my thoughts that by self pity shape the image I had of myself. This negative process, although very destructive, felt secure and peaceful to me. It helped to shape my identity but kept me small at the same time. I knew I had to dig out these roots and writing Desire The Reckless was my way of digging. During this phase of introspection and writing I was reading a couple of Jack Kerouac novels. He like no other tried to capture the true wandering spirit by writing about unique characters or like he wrote it himself “the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn.” This spirit inspired me as it’s the same flame i felt burning within myself. I tried to capture that spirit in the phrase Desire The Reckless and used it as an aphorism. Recording this song with Lorrainville in Kampen meant a lot to me. It felt like the end of a cycle; the finishing chapter and contrary to the writing process the recordings went really smooth. The guys found a way to make it even more powerful and I am really thankful for that. All instruments were recorded at the same time. Just my vocals needed to be done separately afterwards. I really wanted to record them the same day which meant a long session for Guido and Nick. When we finished the vocal recordings we all felt this almost magic feeling, knowing we created something really special. May it inspire you to create, love and share
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:50:01 +0000
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