Tell me more about Talk Talk's "Spirit Of Eden" Recording Sessions

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Is there a good resource out there on the making of this record? Is there a 33 1/3rd in the works?

I heard there was a short article in the new Paste magazine on the record and I tracked that down. At one point in the article it said that the recording session was "well documented", but i've seen nothing written on it.

I know about the interviews from the time period on the Within Without fan page, but was looking for something more in-depth on the recording of the album itself.

Thanks in advance.

― Elastique (Elastique), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Lots of strippers and blow

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a decent article about Spirit of Eden from 1988

http://users.cybercity.dk/~bcc11425/IntQxx88.html

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

I recall an interview in which Hollis described months and months cooped up in a darkened studio, with only an occasional candle for light...sensory deprivation and all...sounded appropriately monastic...glad they did it that way; glad I didn't have to endure it with them...

― hank (hank s), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe some stuff here:
Are there any books about Talk Talk?
Talk Talk

Also, I thought I still had that MOJO article on my computer...if I find it I'll send it to you.

― jackl (jackl), Saturday, 11 November 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

My favorite story is how after not letting the record company (EMI) hear the sessions for months, Hollis and Friese-Green presented the finished product to him -- after it was finished, the guy reported burst into tears, and the band never learned whether it was because he was so moved by the music or rather that he knew right away that the record would sell about four copies.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 11 November 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/stranded-talk-talk-spirit-of-eden.htm

I touched on the sessions here - incence, improvisations, intensity - but only briefly. I can't remember where I was sourcing from; I think weeks of Googling turned up a couple of interviews, most prominantly with Phill Brown, which I used.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Saturday, 11 November 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

These "hell in the studio" stories, apocryphal or not, are always interesting to me.

― paid in cigarettes (paid in cigarettes), Saturday, 11 November 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

Probably mentioned in one of those threads linked above, but Tape Op had a long interview with Phil Brown some years ago where he talked a lot about the sessions.

― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Saturday, 11 November 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I think Phill said he's writing a book full of details.

― Paul Eater (eater), Saturday, 11 November 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks all, I appreciate it.

― Elastic Heart (Elastique), Saturday, 11 November 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

dat harmonica thou...

― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 14:03 (seven years ago)

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