Hey, Lhasa...

Os Tindersticks regressam com um álbum novo, "The Waiting Room", em janeiro do próximo ano, e, para nosso gáudio, regressam também à bela tradição dos duetos, repetindo uma cantora que, infelizmente, já nos deixou: Lhasa de Sela. Depois de "Sometimes It Hurts", do álbum "Waiting For The Moon", a voz de Lhasa volta ao nosso convívio com "Hey Lucinda". A história desta colaboração está mais abaixo.

O video deste single foi realizado por Joe King e Rosie Pedlow, no âmbito do projecto "The waiting room film project". Quem quiser saber mais, espreite aqui.



I started to write this song a long time ago – around 6am, walking the streets of central Cologne – I didn’t realise then that by trying to push at the way a duet is structured – making this song more conversational, fluid – that the musical setting it actually asked for was beyond us. A ten year struggle commenced, it became a joke in the band – ‘Time to try again with Lucinda…’

Along the way I visited my great friend Lhasa de Sela in Montreal and we spent a little time recording a version of ‘Hey Lucinda’. She understood that it was not right for this song to lament, that underneath its ‘sad’ surface, it is full of mischief.

After Lhasa’s death on New Years day 2010 I had to put the song (and her other recordings) away. I have only recently been able to listen to her sing again and Lucinda resurfaced in my consciousness, though this time I was more able to understand what it needed – To be true to the moment we shared singing it together. As a band we approached the music again, giving it only just what was needed but hopefully catching some of that mischief!

Stuart Staples em http://www.tindersticks.co.uk/tomorrows/