カインドネスのインスタグラム(kindnessmusic) - 2月13日 23時06分

A Guy Called Gerald performs “Voodoo Ray” at Manchester’s Victoria Baths in 1988

ANIFF AKINOLA
Nicola really didn’t like house – she wanted to be a soul singer. We weren’t getting anything out of her. I went off to the toilet and started thinking about what we could get her to do. The big singer at the time was Boy George, so I tried to think of what he might do. Then it hit me: “Oooh, ooh-ooh, aah-aah yeah!” I went back in the studio and shouted it to Nicola.

GERALD SIMPSON

We spun one sequence of her vocals into the sampler and I remember putting the reverse thing on – I think I did that on everything actually because it was like the new tool. I remember in the meanwhile the vocal was playing, playing it back with the reverse and thinking, “Wow, shit! That sounds wild!” COLIN THORPE

None of us knew how to program the S-950 [sampler], so Gerald sat there pressing the reverse button all the way through it, which is where the stab pattern comes from. To begin with, Gerald didn’t like the vocal.

GERALD SIMPSON

It was a good idea in the end, it made the track less mechanical and kept this really weird flow. The actual tone of her singing forwards and backwards at the same time created this weird, kind of hypnotic feeling. People were thinking it was some kind of Asian thing at first, because it was almost like some kind of mantra, but it was just her singing backwards and forwards. Not even lyrics but just the same thing.

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