Dave Celentano: all access interview

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15-11-2008:
I've really been enjoying Dave's CD, particulalry with my mate Brad over a few beers. I caught up with his recent work in this interview with All Access Magazine.



Dave Celentano:
I did the song first, then the name came along. That song has more of a classical influence – it has parts from Paganini and Bach. I got to thinking about the jewelry boxes where you’d open them up and there would be classical music and a ballerina. But I wanted something darker…so “Wicked” happened. A box with stuff in it is a collection, and this CD is a collection of wicked songs. To get the darker sound I used the harmonic minor a lot, like the song “Wicked Music Box” has kind of a snake charmer sound to it from the harmonic scale. Then the CD cover is by Eddie Young, who does the covers on some of my instructional books. It’s kind of a Stephen King evil clown idea – a jack-in-the-box with a metal guitar, and the headstock is a meat cleaver.
I went for a cinematic style with the CD. It has a hard rock/metal sound but not traditional metal like Metallica or Megadeth. It’s more airy and cinematic like background music in TV or movies. I’m trying to market it to that industry, license some of the songs. Video games have a lot of licensed rock songs in them too, because to license from a non-celebrity is cheaper, and for the artist it gets the stuff out there. Nowadays video games have real music, versus the old Mario Brothers games.


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