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„The cover was made by Craig Keenan and was based on a picture he had done that really gave me a strong feeling, and what I was looking for with the album cover, I wanted it to have a very human feel to it. This album is very much for me about your relationship to the heart and instinct, and the album cover for me is someone observing their heart. I really love the cover that Craig made, felt right to me.“
„I listen to a lot of underground dance based music, and this has influenced me in all the different ways you can create a sound world and atmosphere in the recording and mixing process, also too in the way of changing my drum kit, using different sounds to merge myself more with John’s (Leafcutter John’s; M.E.) sounds. Also I have been influenced by really old recordings of classical indian music and jazz that has a beautiful and distorted rawness to them.“
‚The main thing for me though with this album was that it needed to feel right to me, almost in a tactile way, so from the point of mixing and recording the album I just followed my instinct on what was giving me the right emotional feeling and disregarded what might be technically correct. The tune „Lost In Death“ is about sometimes when you need to make strong decisions to change your life, there is a period where you haven’t entered the new but are no more in the old so there can be a feeling of almost being lost – so the „death“ part is just meaning a death of an old part of you.“
(excerpts from Sebastian Rochford’s email concerning two questions of mine about Polar Bear‘ s forthcoming album „In Each And Everyone“. Listening to it has had such a deep impact on me. Brian Eno would call it „Where-am-I“-music. Keep in mind that the album will be released on March, 21 in Germany, and on March, 24 in England and elsewhere. I don’t want to use the common phrase too easily of the album being „an early contender for the jazz album of the year“, but it is definitely, sorry to say this, an early contender for one of the most adventurous allbums of the year. M.E.)