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Listen to our exclusive intimate interview with Abel Korzeniowski. He talked about Madonna, the process of composing and recording the score of W.E. with Madonna and himself. He's a real artist! We talked with Abel the day the Golden Globe nominations have been announced.
Interview with Abel Korzeniowski on Madonna and W.E. by DrownedMadonna.com
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - DrownedMadonna.com had the privilege of interviewing the one and only Monte Pittman. He is well known for being Madonna's guitar teacher, her guitarist and co-writer of some of her most intimate songs. But Monte is first of all a great artist, whose second album, "Pain, Love & Destiny", is out now and you can buy it here.
Drowned Madonna: What are your inspirations, your favourite guitarists?
Monte Pittman: Right now, I’ve been listening to the old blues guys on Spotify, like Freddie King, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and Elmore James. Also, Jeff Beck is a big influence. Vogg from the band Decapitated (from Poland), John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk have been massive influences on me too.
DM: What is the music you like and listen to the most?
MP: I like a little bit of everything from the heaviest to the softest and everything in between.
DM: Which is your favourite song?
MP: Ever? “The Long and Winding Road” by The Beatles. Lately I’ve listened to “Born To Run” by Bruce Springsteen over and over again for some reason. “Like Rock & Roll and Radio” from Ray LaMontagne is one of my favorite current songs. “Help Is On The Way” from Rise Against stays stuck in my head.
DM: What are the secrets of your guitar setup?
MP: It’s all about balance.
DM: You worked as a salesman in a guitair store... did you already know how to play guitar?
MP: Yes. I’ve been playing since I was 13.
DM: When and why did you decide to become a guitair teacher?
MP: My guitar teacher (Robert Browning) had me teach as his apprentice as part of my teaching. You have to know it at a different level to be able to teach it to someone else.
DM: One of your students was Guy Richie. How did he become your student?
MP: His assistant at the time found me by calling the Guitar Center asking for guitar teachers and I was referred by someone there.
DM: When did you meet Madonna for the first time?
MP: When I was at her house to teach a lesson.
DM: Were you nervous when you performed with Madonna an acoustic rendition of "Don't Tell Me" at the David Letterman Show?
MP: Not really. I was really, really cold. It’s like being in a freezer in that studio. It went by so fast there was no time to be nervous. I stayed in my dressing room before going on and worked up the solo I played. I wasn’t really aware of anything going on anywhere else at the time. After the show, Paul Schaffer came up to me and told me he liked how I started the solo with the melody. That was a cool moment. He doesn’t miss anything.
DM: Was that your first time on TV?
MP: Yes.
DM: Madonna looked very nervous and humble. Do you remember her feelings?
MP: I can’t speak for her. I thought she did incredible. She probably wasn’t nervous. That might be a way she looks before she kicks your ass. You could substitute any Chuck Norris fact with Madonna. There aren’t too many late night TV performances out there that people still refer to 11 years later.
DM: The next summer Madonna wanted you to be the guitarist of her Drowned World Tour...
MP: We were tuning our guitars and she asked if I wanted to go on tour with her. It was that simple.
DM: Since then, you went on every Madonna tour. Which was your favourite and why?
MP: There are great memories from each tour. It’s hard to just pick one. The Drowned World Tour was my first with her. It was a new band and she hadn’t toured in over 7 years or something like that. The Re-Invention Tour and Confessions Tour were incredible experiences too. The Sticky & Sweet Tour brought in a new band for her so that was another incredible experience in itself. I’ve had the pleasure to play with the musicians in both incarnations that I’m very proud to have played with. We’re all pretty different with our backgrounds sometimes and instead of focusing on how we’re different, we focus on how we’re alike. That’s when the magic happens.
DM: But at the same time you were working with your bands, like Prong and The Citizen Vein. Was it hard to manage both?
MP: Somehow it worked where I could go back and forth with each. Prong isn’t “my” band but I love that band like I started it. From The Re-Invention Tour on – I was also building my band The Citizen Vein. In a way, what I’m doing now with my solo career is where that band left off.
DM: Doesn't it feel strange to be a heavy metal guitarist and at the same time the guitarist of the Queen of Pop?
MP: No. Both have alot of attitude in them. The notes and the chords are the same. It’s the dynamic and the effect you play it with that puts it in a different genre. I actually look at Prong as heavy dance music. A cool coincidence: Prong started at CBGB’s. Tommy Victor was the soundman there. The original drummer and bass player also worked there. That’s also where Madonna played with her late 70's band (The Breakfast Club) before becoming a solo artist.
DM: "Easy Ride" is one of our favourite songs ever. Can you tell us something about the writing and recording process?
MP: Cool. I’m glad you like it. It came about by being a chord progression you can play the Harmonic Minor scale over.
DM: Which are your favourite Madonna's songs?
MP: “Angel,” “Love Profusion,” “Another Suitcase In Another Hall,” “Open Your Heart,” “The Power Of Goodbye.” So many to choose from.
DM: "Pain, Love & Destiny" is your second album as a solo. Which way is it different from your debut album, "The Deepest Dark?"
MP: "The Deepest Dark" is just an acoustic & vocal album. I did it that way so I could recreate it anywhere and it still sounded like the album. "Pain, Love & Destiny" is built around the acoustic & vocal element but also has drums, bass, electric guitars, blazing guitar solos, jams, programming and is more band oriented. I took what people liked from my live shows and incorporated that into my current material.
DM: How long did it take to write and record it?
MP: Two months. Every day with the exception of a few. Two of the songs were first written before I moved to LA, but I overhauled everything before recording it and rewrote everything with what I’ve learned to this point.
DM: What were your inspirations?
MP: Taking everything that’s ever made me who I am at this point and putting them together with what works live or what people really liked in my live shows.
DM: How would you descrive each songs with a few words?
MP: It’s hard for me to describe them. What I wrote them about may mean something completely different to someone else and I like to keep it that way. I try to make it where the lyrics could mean multiple things. Right now some of the lyrics mean something different to me than they did a month ago.
DM: Is there a song that you like the most?
MP: That changes all the time. Right now “Keep Shining” almost seems like a personal message to myself for right now.
DM: Are you planning to film a video?
MP: Yes. In the next couple of weeks.
DM: Will you tour to promote "Pain, Love & Destiny"?
MP: I’m headed to Texas to do some shows at the beginning of December. I’m not able to do a full “tour” but playing anywhere and everywhere I can.
DM: How long are you not taking a holiday?
MP: How long am I not taking a holiday? That sounds like a trick question. I’m not taking any breaks. There’s no time to.
DM: Madonna will tour again next summer. Are you planning to tour with her again?
MP: If she’s playing somewhere and asks me to join her – I’m there. She gave me my break. She comes first.
DM: What do you want to say to your and Madonna fans?
MP: Thanks for all of the support, especially recently. I’ve been getting a great response from my new album. On the Sticky & Sweet Tour, Twitter & Facebook were relatively new. Now more people are on and it’s great to hear from everyone. There are some people I haven’t seen in years. So that’s great to be able to get information out to so many people at once. It has it’s bad side sometimes but over all it’s really cool.
DM: Thank you so much Monte, it was such a pleasure to talk with you. We hope to see you soon on stage with Madonna.
Dear Madonna's loyal fanatics, I am very much glad to start my collaboration with DrownedMadonna.com. I am an insider, working in the industry, but require anonymity, so just call me MITK aka Man in the Know. I decided to collaborate with this website because of their past exclusives on previous albums and tours, and also due to the new layout which is absolutely fresh, professional and cutting-edge, the perfect format for a leading, modern devoted fansite.
To launch my collaboration with DM I have some interesting news to share on Madonna's upcoming album. You've already heard some information, mainly the involvement of such names as William Orbit and Jean Baptiste Kouame - Madonnarama.com broke the news. You may even have heard some fake rumors too! Here are a few of the facts which I can share at the moment.
William Orbit is the 'wizard', the brain behind the new album, while the Free School, a collective of co-writers and co-producers, with Jean Baptiste Kouame as the primary songwriter, are the "tailors." Jean Baptiste was introduced to Madonna by Benny Benassi.
The new album will see extraordinary beats and sounds. The production is going to be rich, innovative, sophistacated and elaborated, in much the same way as "Ray of Light" previously. Besides amazing samples, the songs will see also live instruments, mainly guitars.
The lyrics are going to be deeper and elaborated. There are some Kabbalistic and spiritual topics, but I defy anyone to find them all! It's funny that after 13 years from the release of "Ray of Light," Madonna and William Orbit are working on a track, whose title reminds of the universe and the sky.
Madonna's album will incorporate a variety of styles including pop, dance-pop, hip-hop and electronic music with some rock guitair riffs. The tracks will mainly consist of up-tempo and dance. Some bits have echoes of Kelis' "Acapella" and Chris Brown's "Beautiful People" in my opinion.
Some vocal effects are added to her voice, but this remains subtle and well styled, the end result won't see an excessive use of vocal editing.
They are TESTING on single tracks, the collaboration of artists like KiD CuDi, Annie Erin Clark known under the moniker St. Vincent, Nervo and others.
The new album is tentatively seeing the collaboration of producer and hip-hop beat-maker Emile Haynie, known to have previously worked with sucessful big-name artists such as Eminem, Kanye West and KiD CuDi.
Madonna has adapted finally finding a fresh and edgy sound. This album will be, once again, a new change of direction. But if with "Hard Candy," to wink at the American audience, the result was not so convincing and 100% Madonna, this time we are going to have an extraordinary Madonna-brand sound which will definately be a commercial success.
William Orbit flew to New York to work on some tracks with Madonna, he then moved on to Los Angeles to work in the studio with the Free School whilst Madonna kept on working in her New York studio. Collectively they've already finished a lot of songs, about 8, but…not enough for the album. Also some of the songs that Jean Baptiste wrote for the Free School's next album have been reworked for Madonna. Now Jean Baptiste and his group flew to New York to work with Madonna in the recording studio and finish the tracks whilst Orbit is currently working in London.The album will be finally mixed between the end of the year and the new year, in Oakland or Las Vegas. William Orbit is expected to fly to the US.
Prepare yourselves for a masterpiece, the album of the decade... something that will go down not only in Madonna's history but also in the history of music.
Stay tuned to DrownedMadonna.com for my next update.- MITK,
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The first news we have got about Madonna's next world tour are included in the details of Madonna's collaboration with Smirnoff Nightlife Project.
The tour is planned for 2012 with rehearsals expected to start in the first quarter of 2012, probably in March. Dancers must have at least twelve months validity on their passport from March 2012.
Countries/continents which may be included in Madonna world tour 2012 are USA, South America, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Click here and read details on dance auditions.
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Last August Madonna joined Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project to find out a new dancer for her next tour, which will start on 2012.
The first event will take place on September 8 2011 in New York City. Madonna's long-time choreographers Rich & Tone Talauega will judge the auditioners. The selected dancer will attend the final Smirnoff Nighlife Exchange Project in front of Madonna which will take place in on November 12 2011 in New York as well. The final winner will dance on tour with Madonna in 2012.
Here are the details for September 8 audition, as you can also see on the flyer below:
New York event is the only one confirmed at this point, but there could be others.
Don't forget you can also apply online. Submit a 60-second dance video until October 10. For details on the dance submission process and terms and conditions, visit www.smirnoff.com.
The ten Finalists will be contacted via email by 17 October 2011 and must be eligible and able to travel to New York within the period of 7 to 12 November 2011 to take part to the final Smirnoff Nightlife Exchage Project event.
Click here and read all details of Madonna's next world tour available at this point.
"What attracted me to the Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project is the combination of participating in the celebration of nightlife around the world and the opportunity to discover the world's best unknown dancers," said Madonna. "The best dancers are always in the clubs looking for the most original experience, just like Smirnoff is doing."
The 50 countries participating in the Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project include: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Dubai, Ecuador, El Salvador, Germany, Ghana, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Romania, Serbia, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, Trinidad, Turkey, Uruguay, United States, Venezuela and Vietnam.
Keep on checking this page for updates.
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